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Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
with the GeForce FX architecture, NVIDIA has implemented a GPU-specific compiler
that can be used to optimize application performance.
Display Driver Changes—New Features
• Rotation Support for Windows Me/9x
• Custom Resolutions - Provides the user with the ability to construct new modes
via the NVIDIA control panel.
• Dynamic EDIDs - Updates the master mode list with new modes contained in the
connected device’s EDID.
• Support for Special Panels and Devices
• Large Panels
• Wide Panels
• Seamless Spanning Modes - Included in the mode list to support T221 style
large panels.
• Interlaced Modes for HDTV
• DVI Device Hot Plugging
• Frame Lock Functionality - For synchronizing applications across multiple
displays (Quadro FX 3000 only)
• Edge Blend Functionality - For blending the adjacent edges of overlapped
displays on projection systems (Quadro FX 3000 only)
Video — New Features
• VMR support for Full-screen Video
• Support for Windows Media Center’s Playback and Recording Features
PowerMizer — New Features
• Dynamic Peak Power Control
• Thermal Protection v2.0
User Interface Changes
• Dual View Support
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