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Chapter 7
Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features
complement your NVIDIA GPU and improve performance in 3D applications.
Enabling this setting lets you disable support for these additional 3D instructions in
the drivers, which can be useful when comparing performance or when
troubleshooting.
Off —
Support for enhanced instructions used by certain CPUs is not disabled.
Maximize texture memory
Enabling this option sets aside as much memory as possible for use by texture maps.
This can increase performance for highly texture-intensive applications but at the
expense of a minor amount of performance for non-textured applications.
Buffer-Flipping Mode
Click the list to display the buffer-flipping modes for full-screen OpenGL
applications. You can select one of the following methods:
•
Use Block Transfer
is the block transfer method.
•
Auto-select
allows the driver to determine the best method based on your
hardware configuration.
Antialiasing Line Gamma
Note:
This setting is available on newer NVIDIA GPUs, such as the Quadro FX
series.
Enabling this option allows gamma-corrected antialiased lines to consider variances
in the color-display capabilities of your displays when rendering smooth lines.
Antialiasing Full Screen Gamma
Note:
This setting is available on newer NVIDIA GPUs.
Activating this setting enables gamma correction for full screen antialiasing. Gamma-
corrected antialiasing consider variances in the color display capabilities of your
displays when rendering smooth edges. As a result, slightly inclined edges look
smoother.
Note:
Enabling this setting can slow down application performance speed.
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