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Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
•
Support
via
control
panel
option
for
analog
monitors
•
Support
for
CVT/CVT
‐
RB
timing
restriction
using
R&T
strings
• Color
compression
support
• SLI
Enhancements
• SLI
screen
capture
support
• Improved
performance
• Improved
management
of
profiles
between
driver
updates,
enabling
you
to
select
which
profiles
to
keep
and
which
profiles
to
update
with
each
new
software
update.
This
ensures
that
if
you
have
setup
your
profiles
in
your
current
driver,
you
will
not
lose
any
settings
when
you
update
your
driver.
• Improved
high
‐
resolution
scalable
desktop
functionality
for
Quadro
GPU
‐
based
workstations.
DirectX
Improved
driver
stability
and
performance,
including
the
following
areas:
•
UMA support
•
2D operations
•
SLI
NVIDIA Display Control Panel
Release
75
includes
enhancement
to
the
following
sections
of
the
NVIDIA
display
control
panel
user
interface:
• Additions
and
improvements
in
the
Performance
&
Quality
page
(see
)
include:
•
Combined
DirectX
and
OpenGL
application
profiles
on
one
page
•
All
application
profiles,
including
workstation
applications,
are
combined
into
the
same
application
profiles
page.
•
Added
a
triple
‐
buffering
option
for
improved
frame
rates.
(Does
not
apply
to
applications
that
are
fully
OpenGL
‐
based.)
•
Added
a
transparency
antialiasing
option,
which
applies
to
graphics
cards
based
on
the
Quadro
FX
4500
and
newer
series
of
GPUs.
This
option
enables
transparent
pixels
(such
as
between
fence
links
or
leaves
on
trees)
within
textures
to
be
used
in
edge
blending
operations
to
clean
up
jaggies
in
images.
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