Nvidia Quadro Workstation - Operating System Support; Enhancements in Driver Performance; 3 D Graphics API Enhancements; HDTV Support Enhancements

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Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
Operating System Support
Release 65 supports Windows XP SP2 and will support the next version of Windows
XP Media Center Edition—”Symphony”.
Enhancements in Driver Performance
Improved Robustness
The ForceWare Release 65 graphics driver offers improved stability and robustness in
DirectX and 2D graphics.
Video Enhancements
Video enhancements in Release 65 include
• Optimized motion compensation and video processing to take advantage of the
capabilities of the newest generation of NVIDIA GPUs.
• Support for Microsoft’s Certified Output Protection Protocol (COPP)
• Improved media capture interface
3D Graphics API Enhancements
• DirectX Enhancements
• DirectX 9.0c Compatibility
• Supports the capabilities of the newest generation of NVIDIA GPUs for
improved DirectX shader handling and reduced CPU overhead
• OpenGL Enhancements
• Improved and more efficient vertex_buffer_object (VBO) handling
• More efficient memory management for improved performance under
Dualview
HDTV Support Enhancements
Release 65 offers improved HDTV over DVI underscan support, exposed through the
NVIDIA control panel.
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