Release 5 Enhancements; Opengl - Nvidia VCQFX550PCIEPB - Quadro FX 550 User Manual

Appendix C
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History

Release 5 Enhancements

The Release 5 driver adds capabilities in the following areas:

OpenGL

Changes have been made to the core, extensions, performance, and available features
of OpenGL.
OpenGL 1.2 Core
Release 5 adds all the features that constitute the OpenGL 1.2 core capabilities:
• BGRA pixel formats
• packed pixel formats (plus R5_G6_B5 formats and reversed formats)
• rescaling vertex normals
• specular highlights after texturing
• level-of-detail control for mipmapped textures (supported in software on TNT2)
• texture coordinate edge clamping
• 3-D textures (performed in software on all platforms)
• vertex array subranges for optimizing vertex array processing
(glDrawRangeElements() retains the performance of glDrawElements())
OpenGL Extensions
The OpenGL extensions in
Table C.2
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
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Table C.2
OpenGL Extensions Modified in Release 5
were added or changed in Release 5.
Status Comment
New Same as EXT_texture_cube_map
New Same as EXT_texture_env_add
New
New (5.16) To replace S3_s3tc
New
New Deprecated
Removed
Removed
Renamed Was GL_EXT_light_max_exponent
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