User Guide

NVIDIA Corporation
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Detonator XP User’s Guide
• Enabling
GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH
no longer forces software rendering, resulting in
much better performance at some cost in visual quality
Direct3D
The NVIDIA Direct3D Settings control panel contains the following updates:
• Improved full-scene anti-aliasing methods not previously available
• Removal of certain obsolete options and Clone.
• Accelerated full-scene anti-aliasing is enabled (GeForce, Quadro, GeForce2)
• Limited three-stage setup is now possible
•
D3DVTXPCAPS_MATERIALSOURCE7
capability bit is now disabled (leaving the
driver with DirectX 6 material source capabilities)
The following Registry keys are useful for applications that do not blit
correctly:
•
FLUSHAFTERBLITENABLE
is a new Registry key that controls the wait-after-blit
condition when the
DDBLT_WAIT
flag is set.
(Default is
DISABLED
—do not wait.)
Note: This Registry key was formerly named
WAITAFTERBLITENABLE.
•
FORCEBLITWAITFLAGENABLE
is a new Registry key that forces the
DDBLT_WAIT
flag to be set for all blits, which prevents applications that do not check the
return value from unexpectedly losing blits.
(Default is
DISABLED
.)
•
LIMITMAXQUEUEDFBBLITSENABLE
is a new Registry key that limits the maximum
number of queued blits to the front buffer to a value set by the
PRERENDERLIMIT
Registry key, which is 3 by default.
(Default is
DISABLED
.)
Cursor Trails Support
Added support for cursor trails in Windows 9x.
Control Panels
Control panels are available for all Windows operating systems.
TwinView, Digital Vibrance Control, OpenGL, and Direct3D features have
associated NVIDIA-specific windows (control panels) from which these
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