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Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
• Additional SLI support — Release 75 adds support for the following combinations
of PCI Express graphics cards and NVIDIA products, as listed below:
• Improved SLI performance for DirectX and OpenGL applications
• Improved end-user control of SLI profiles and rendering modes – see descriptions
of SLI-based options in
“Adjusting Performance and Quality Settings” on page 97
Display Driver
• Improved support for custom timings, including non-divisible by 8 resolutions on
TMDS/LVDS panels, control of back-end and front-end timings, and variable
overscan shift values.
The driver can also present underscan modes on demand, and supports variable
underscan ratios.
• Off-screen 2D memory management optimization
• Efficient synchronization between clients allows for sharing of off-screen resources
with DirectX applications. This avoids potential performance issues with
applications that use DirectX rendered surfaces in ways that conflicted with 2D
caching.
• VESA Coordinated Video Timing (CVT) Support
•
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
NVIDIA Product
PCI-Express Graphics Cards
NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
GeForce 7800 GTX + GeForce 7800 GTX
NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200
NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200
+ NVIDIA nForce Professional
2050
All NVIDIA GPUs
GeForce 6600 + GeForce 6600
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