Nvmanagement; Driver Independence; Release 65 Enhancements; 512 Mb Frame Buffer Support - Nvidia Quadro Workstation User Manual

Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
• Consolidation of some actions, providing fewer hot keys and increased
functionality
• New hot keys: Activate Last Active Desktop, and Show Last Blocked Popup
• nView Toolbar — Added drag‐n‐drop window management to the display
toolbars.
• Gridlines — New gridline creation tools to insert preset rows and columns
• Internet Explorer Popup Preventer—Sensitivity Adjustment
• Window Management — New setting to open window on next empty display

NVManagement

Improved functionality in response to customer feedback. The NVManagement
application includes new switches for scripting driver settings

Driver Independence

For ForceWare graphics drivers Release 50 and later, any nView version can be
installed over any driver version.

Release 65 Enhancements

512 MB Frame Buffer Support

ForceWare Release 65 graphics drivers provide memory management techniques for
supporting 512 MB versions of the new generation of NVIDIA graphics cards, such
as the GeForce 6800 or Quadro FX 4000 and later.

Multi-GPU Support

Release 65 supports the new NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) technology for
improved performance using dual high‐end graphics cards
technology, such as the PCI Express based GeForce 6800 Ultra, GeForce 6800 GT, or
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 GPU‐based graphics cards.
1. Cards must be of the same vendor and model number.
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that support SLI
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