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

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Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
Display Driver, DirectX, and OpenGL
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:
Table D.1 Release 70 Graphics Driver — Performance Improvement and New Features
Display Driver DirectX OpenGL
Performance
Improvements
• Improved stability and robustness
• Improved NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU func-
tionality
• Support for 512 MB graphics cards
• HDTV-over-DVI functionality
• Improved robustness
• Multi-GPU refinements
• Improvements in
- Texture management
- SRGB handling
- Anisotropic filtering
Improved workstation
performance for
OpenGL applications.
New Features
• Support of the unified memory
architecture of the latest Quadro and
GeForce series of GPUs.
• Support of the latest Quadro and
GeForce series of GPUs.
•Support of the TurboCache memory
management architecture of the latest
GeForce 6200 series GPUs.
TurboCache dynamically allocates
system memory to augment the frame
buffer, resulting in increased memory
bandwidth.
Support of the unified
memory architecture of
the latest Quadro and
GeForce series of GPUs.
Support of the unified
memory architecture of
the latest Quadro and
GeForce series of GPUs.
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