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Appendix C
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
Enhanced nView Desktop Manager Features
• Additional Operating System Support —
NVIDIA nView supports Windows NT
4.0, Windows 9X/Me, and Windows 2000/XP.
• Zoom Support —
New fixed-frame zoom and bi-directional zoom editing
capability
• NV-Switcher —
Improved
Alt+Tab
switcher which also supports Desktop
switching and is expandable to other NVIDIA features
• Color Keyed Windows —
Allows the user to color key windows for easy
identification when activating them on the desktop.
• Taskbar and Menu Transparency
• New window actions and application settings.
•
Keystone Support
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OpenGL Enhancements
• OpenGL 1.4 ICD with NVIDIA Extensions —
New extension includes
ARB_vertex_program, which co-exists with NV_vertex_program.
• Enhancements for Workstation Applications
•
NV1x line stipple enhancements, and NV2x 2-sided lighting optimizations
•
Immediate mode optimizations for Solid Edge, and display list tuning for
UGv17.
• Multi-Display Improvements —
New accelerated spanning mode is enabled by
default.
• Reduced Power Consumption —
Release 40 utilizes CPU cycles more efficiently,
resulting in reduced power consumption without sacrificing performance.
• Dynamic AGP/Video memory management
Release 35 Enhancements
The Release 35 driver offers new features not found in previous releases of the
NVIDIA Driver for Windows.
• NVRotate —
The NVRotate feature lets you view your Windows desktop in
Landscape or Portrait mode. You can rotate desktop by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.
• Improved and expanded NVIDIA
nView Desktop Manager
application
4. Keystone is not supported on graphics cards based on the TNT, TNT2 or Vanta product families.
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