User Guide

NVIDIA Corporation
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Detonator XP User’s Guide
C HAPTER
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NVIDIA D RIVER F EATURE H ISTORY
This chapter provides historic feature information on NVIDIA drivers for
Windows and contains these sections:
• “Summary of Recent Driver Enhancements” on page 7
• “Summary of Earlier Driver Enhancements” on page 8
Summary of Recent Driver Enhancements
Recent NVIDIA Drivers for Windows features include:
• Support for Microsoft DirectX 8
• Support for Microsoft DirectX VA 1.0
• NVIDIA 3D Stereo (requires installation of the optional Stereoscopic driver).
The driver provides stereoscopic viewing capabilities for games and still
images.
• Special support for capabilities of the GeForce3 family of GPUs:
• Pixel and Vertex Shader support for DirectX 8 and OpenGL
• Quincunx antialiasing option for enhanced image quality and performance
• AMD Athlon Processor and Intel Pentium 4 Processor optimizations
• Improved TwinView interface
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