Texture Color Depth; Triple Buffering; Gamma Correct Antialiasing; Transparency Antialiasing - Nvidia Quadro Workstation User Manual

Chapter 7
Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features

Texture Color Depth

This setting determines whether textures of a specific color depth should be used by
default in OpenGL applications.
• Use desktop color depth always uses textures of the color depth at which your
Windows desktop is currently running.
• The Always use 16 bpp and Always use 32 bpp settings force the use of textures
of the specified color depth, regardless of your desktop settings.

Triple Buffering

• On enables the driver to maintain higher frame rates when the frame rate is less
than the VSYNC (vertical synchronization) value.
Note: In order for the On setting to work, the Unified back/depth buffer setting
• Off disables triple buffering.

Gamma Correct Antialiasing

Note: This option is available on newer NVIDIA GPUs, such as the Quadro FX 4500
and later series of GPUs.
• On enables gamma correct antialiasing, which results in a better color calculation
to help reduce jaggies and maintain the highest level of color reproduction of 3D
images.
• Off disables gamma correct antialiasing.

Transparency Antialiasing

Note: This option has no effect on applications that are exclusively OpenGL‐based.
Note: This option is available on newer NVIDIA GPUs, such as the Quadro FX 4500
and later series of GPUs.
Transparency antialiasing, an advanced feature, is a technique used to minimize the
visible aliasing on the edges of images with transparent textures. This improvement
in 3D image quality is most noticeable in objects such as vegetation, chain‐link fences,
and similar objects.
To enable this feature, use the Multisampling setting for superior application
performance or the Supersampling setting for superior image quality.
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must be turned off.
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