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Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
OpenGL Extensions
The OpenGL extensions in the table below were added or changed in Release 5.
OpenGL Extensions Modified in Release 5
Extension
ARB_texture_cube_map
ARB_texture_env_add
ARB_transpose_matrix
GL_ARB_texture_compression
NV_blend_square
S3_s3tc
EXT_clip_volume_hint
EXT_cull_vertex
GL_NV_light_max_exponent
OpenGL Performance Enhancements
A number of features are significantly improved in Release 5.
• For RIVA TNT and TNT2, polygon offset is faster.
• For GeForce 256 and Quadro, a number of improvements have been made:
•
glDrawPixels()
•
display lists use AGP memory for better performance
•
large texture sets are handled more efficiently by the texture manager
•
vertex arrays with two‐sided lighting are faster
•
compiled vertex arrays are faster for primitives that use multitextured
TexCoord2f+Color4ub+Vertex3f
•
vertex array range extension is fully functional
• Control Panel enables accelerated full‐scene anti‐aliasing (GeForce, Quadro,
GeForce2)
• multi‐monitor hardware is accelerated on Windows 2000
•
GL_WGL_swap_interval
• V‐sync is on by default (default behavior is selectable with the Control Panel)
• default anisotropic filtering can be triggered by checking the anisotropic filtering
box on the Control Panel
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Status
New
New
New
New (5.16)
New
New
Removed
Removed
Renamed
and
glReadPixels()
extension can change V‐sync behavior
Comment
Same as EXT_texture_cube_map
Same as EXT_texture_env_add
To replace S3_s3tc
Deprecated
Was GL_EXT_light_max_exponent
have been made faster
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