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Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
• Faster desktop switching
• Integrated control panels
•New Setup Wizard
• Driver independence
DirectX Graphics
• Floating point render targets
• Multi-element textures
• Improved antialiasing compatibility
• Improved shader handling and stability
• Improved render-to-texture performance
OpenGL
• Windows 9x Rotation Support
• New Extensions Supported
• GL_ARB_occlusion_query
• Faster Vertex Processing Pipeline—Improved geometry processing and display
list support
• Faster vertex and fragment program compilers.
• Improved support for
ARB_vertex_buffer_object extension (vbo).
• Improved stability during mode switches, antialiasing, and UBB
• Faster texture downloads
Release 40 Enhancements
The Release 40 driver offers new features not found in previous releases of the
NVIDIA Driver for Windows.
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