Display Driver, Directx, And Opengl; Nview Desktop Manager; New Features; Feature Enhancements - Nvidia Quadro Workstation User Manual

Display Driver, DirectX, and OpenGL

Release 70 Graphics Driver — Performance Improvement and New Features
Table D.2
Display Driver
Performance
• Improved stability and robustness
Improvements
• Improved NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU func-
• Support for 512 MB graphics cards
• HDTV-over-DVI functionality
• Support of the unified memory

New Features

• Support of the latest Quadro and
• Support of the TurboCache memory

nView Desktop Manager

New Features
• "Toggle Stereo 3D Display" hot key
• "Transparent Desktop Lock" hot key
• Improved compatibility with Windows Remote Desktop, Windows XP SP2,
Windows XP 64‐bit Editions, and Windows Media Center Edition.
• New Display Optimization Wizard (Display Calibration, Gamma)

Feature Enhancements

• nView Desktop Manager Wizard
• Improved layout and usability of the wizards.
• Improved television and HDTV support in the setup wizards and TV Wizard.
• New Display Optimization Wizard (Display Calibration, Gamma)
• Profiles —.tvp file association: manage/load profiles from Windows Explorer
• Hot Keys enhancements include:
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tionality
architecture of the latest Quadro and
GeForce series of GPUs.
GeForce series of GPUs.
management architecture of the latest
GeForce 6200 series GPUs.
TurboCache dynamically allocates
system memory to augment the frame
buffer, resulting in increased memory
bandwidth.
DirectX
• Improved robustness
• Multi-GPU refinements
• Improvements in
- Texture management
- SRGB handling
- Anisotropic filtering
Support of the unified
memory architecture of
the latest Quadro and
GeForce series of GPUs.
Appendix D
OpenGL
Improved workstation
performance for
OpenGL applications.
Support of the unified
memory architecture of
the latest Quadro and
GeForce series of GPUs.
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