Direct3D - Nvidia Quadro Workstation User Manual

• enabling
much better performance at some cost in visual quality

Direct3D

Release 5 contains the following Direct3D changes:
• accelerated full‐scene anti‐aliasing is enabled (GeForce, Quadro, GeForce2)
• limited three‐stage setup is now possible
•
D3DVTXPCAPS_MATERIALSOURCE7
with DirectX 6 material source capabilities)
The following Registry keys are useful for applications that do not blit correctly:
•
FLUSHAFTERBLITENABLE
condition when the
(Default is
Note: This Registry key was formerly named
•
FORCEBLITWAITFLAGENABLE
be set for all blits, which prevents applications that do not check the return value
from unexpectedly losing blits.
(Default is
•
LIMITMAXQUEUEDFBBLITSENABLE
number of queued blits to the front buffer to a value set by the
Registry key, which is 3 by default.
(Default is
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no longer forces software rendering, resulting in
GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH
is a new Registry key that controls the wait‐after‐blit
DDBLT_WAIT
—do not wait.)
DISABLED
is a new Registry key that forces the
.)
DISABLED
.)
DISABLED
capability bit is now disabled (leaving the driver
flag is set.
WAITAFTERBLITENABLE.
is a new Registry key that limits the maximum
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flag to
DDBLT_WAIT
PRERENDERLIMIT
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