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Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
• Application profiles can include “color settings” — You can now associate
application-specific color settings (Digital Vibrance, Brightness, Contrast, Gamma,
etc.) with video games.
• Improved HDTV-over-DVI user interface and support for arbitrary overscan/
underscan for HDTV-over-DVI.
• Variable “Underscan” and “Overscan Shift”— The HDTV Overscan
Configuration page now lets you adjust the HDTV underscan and overscan shift.
• Show HDTV display formats option on the Change Resolutions page lets you
add and remove standard EIA 861b HD modes and enables HD over DVI.
•The Advanced Timings page now lets you modify the X and Y resolution to create
a custom mode. Custom modes creation and advanced timings adjustments are
combined on one page.
• Improved SLI multi-GPU mode pages — available with NVIDIA SLI graphics
cards intended for use by advanced users. For details, see the document “Application
Note — Using NVIDIA SLI Graphics Cards” Version 2.0 or later. nView Desktop
Manager
Video
• New video processing features include Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9) video
acceleration — support for hardware accelerating decoding WMV9 video files on
GeForce 6 series GPUs. To enable this feature, a software update from Microsoft is
required.
• Video processing improvements include:
• Video scaling implementations to support the newest GeForce 6 series GPUs.
• Motion adaptive de-interlacing
• Color management improvements include:
Color space conversion and processing amplifiers
Extended color range
Color temperature correction
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