User Guide

NVIDIA Corporation

Chapter 1 About the Detonator XP Unified Driver

• Highly optimized OpenGL and DirectX pipelines with NVIDIA Pixel and

Vertex Shaders

• New OpenGL 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA extensions

• Full hardware acceleration of Windows XP, including:

• Fastest Windows XP 2D and 3D performance

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• Full hardware acceleration for the new Windows XP graphical user

interface

• NVIDIA patented Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) – all products

supported in single driver binary

OpenGL 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA Extensions

Several new features and functions have been brought into the core

functionality of OpenGL 1.3, including:

• Cube map texturing

• Higher quality environment mapping and lighting support

•Multisampling

• Order-independent antialiasing rendering of points, lines and polygons

• New Texture Modes

• More powerful ways of applying textures to rendered objects, such as:

• Texture Add Environment Mode

• Texture Combine Environment Mode

• Texture Dot3 Environment Mode

• Texture border filtering mode

• Compressed texture framework - allows for higher quality textures in less

memory regardless of file format

The Detonator XP software OpenGL 1.3 ICD also supports the following

NVIDIA Extensions under OpenGL:

• NV_Blend _square

• NV_evaluators

• NV_fence

• NV_fog_distance

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