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card. Don't email me or your manufacturer's technical support for more information or if it messes up

your card!

You can download various BIOS editors from the following website:

http://www.x-bios.3dgames.ru/

Once again, this is for experienced users only.

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The sidebanding registry hack (involving the DISABLEAGPSIDEBAND key) that is being spread

around is fake and does not work.

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Q. How can I enable OpenGL hardware accelerated anti-aliased lines on a non-Quadro

card?

OpenGL hardware accelerated anti-aliased lines is a features that is only likely to be useful to people that use

professional 3D modelling applications. It is unlikely that gamers will find this feature very useful, as it only

speeds up the rendering of wireframe models.

The following registry key was found by Stefano G:

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You can enable OpenGL hardware accelerated anti-aliased lines in Windows 9x/ME using the

nv15alineson.reg registry file - available here:

http://www.geforcefaq.com/files/nv15alineson.reg

If this file don't seem to have any effect, you may have to edit it in Notepad and change the 0000 to 0001,

or another value. Take a look at the

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Display

registry key using regedit and find out which number your graphics card is using.

If you find this causes problems, you can disable the setting again using the nv15alinesoff.reg registry

file - available here:

http://www.geforcefaq.com/files/nv15alinesoff.reg

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You can enable OpenGL hardware accelerated anti-aliased lines in Windows 2000 using the

nv15alinesw2k.reg registry file - available here:

http://www.geforcefaq.com/files/nv15alinesonw2k.reg

If you find this causes problems, you can disable the setting again using the nv15alinesoff.reg registry

file - available here:

http://www.geforcefaq.com/files/nv15alinesoffw2k.reg

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Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to get this to work under Windows NT 4.

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Q. What is the status of 2D stretched sprite smoothing in the latest drivers?

Q. What is the status of auto mip-mapping in the latest drivers?

Q. Can I force a 16-bit z-buffer in the latest drivers?

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They are all currently disabled, although there may be drivers released later that will support them.

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In the case of 2D stretched sprite smoothing, this appears to have been disabled since the 5.xx drivers.

You can see the effects of this in games like G-Police (beacons) and some SNES emulators.

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