Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
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Support via control panel option for analog monitors
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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:
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Additions and improvements in the Performance & Quality page (see "Adjusting
Performance and Quality Settings" on page
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Combined DirectX and OpenGL application profiles on one page
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All application profiles, including workstation applications, are combined into
the same application profiles page.
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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
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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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97) include:
Quadro Workstation User's Guide