Release 20 Enhancements; Release 10 Enhancements; Release 6 Enhancements; Twinview - Nvidia VCQFX550PCIEPB - Quadro FX 550 User Manual

Release 20 Enhancements

The Release 20 driver offers new features not found in previous releases of the
NVIDIA Driver for Windows.
• OpenGL 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA extensions
• OpenGL performance optimizations
• Optimized DirectX pipeline with NVIDIA pixel and vertex shaders.
• Full support for Windows XP, including
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Full hardware acceleration for Windows XP GUI features
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Accelerated Windows XP 3D performance through the NVIDIA XPress Link
technology

Release 10 Enhancements

The Release 10 driver offers new features not found in previous releases of the
NVIDIA Driver for Windows.
• Support for Microsoft DirectX
• Support for Microsoft DirectX
• NVIDIA 3D Stereo (requires installation of the optional Stereoscopic driver). The
driver provides stereoscopic viewing capabilities for games and still images.
• Special support for NVIDIA GeForce3 capabilities:
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Pixel and Vertex Shader support for DirectX 8 and OpenGL®.
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Quincunx antialiasing option for enhanced image quality and performance.
• AMD® Athlon™ Processor and Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor optimizations
• Improved TwinView interface

Release 6 Enhancements

TwinView

TwinView is a Release 6 feature that supports connecting dual displays using a single
graphics card (such as the GeForce2 MX or Quadro2 MXR) based on the NV11
NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
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