Enhanced Nview Desktop Manager Features; Opengl Enhancements; Release 35 Enhancements - Nvidia FX1300 - Quadro FX 128MB Dual DVI-I PCIe Video Card User Manual

Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
• New Display Properties Panel — The NVIDIA control panel has been redesigned
to make navigating easier and to improve control over the display adapter
settings.

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
•

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‐monitor 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

4. Keystone is not supported on graphics cards based on the TNT, TNT2 or Vanta product families.
217
4
Quadro Workstation User's Guide