Opengl Enhancements; Release 35 Enhancements - Nvidia Quadro Workstation User Manual

Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
• Zoom Support — New fixed‐frame zoom and bi‐directional zoom editing
capability
• NV‐Switcher — Improved Alt+Tab switcher which also supports Desktop
switching and is expandable to other NVIDIA features
• Color Keyed Windows — Allows the user to color key windows for easy
identification when activating them on the desktop.
• Taskbar and Menu Transparency
• New window actions and application settings.
Keystone Support
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OpenGL Enhancements

• OpenGL 1.4 ICD with NVIDIA Extensions — New extension includes
ARB_vertex_program, which co‐exists with NV_vertex_program.
• Enhancements for Workstation Applications
• NV1x line stipple enhancements, and NV2x 2‐sided lighting optimizations
• Immediate mode optimizations for Solid Edge, and display list tuning for
UGv17.
• Multi‐monitor Improvements — New accelerated spanning mode is enabled by
default.
• Reduced Power Consumption — Release 40 utilizes CPU cycles more efficiently,
resulting in reduced power consumption without sacrificing performance.
• Dynamic AGP/Video memory management

Release 35 Enhancements

The Release 35 driver offers new features not found in previous releases of the
NVIDIA Driver for Windows.
• NVRotate — The NVRotate feature lets you view your Windows desktop in
Landscape or Portrait mode. You can rotate desktop by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.
• Improved and expanded NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager application
nView Desktop Manager has now been redesigned with a convenient user
interface and many new features and utilities designed to solve specific problems
for users. Utilities such as anti‐keystoning support and flat panel monitor
4. Keystone is not supported on graphics cards based on the TNT, TNT2 or Vanta product families.
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