Release 343 Graphics Drivers for Windows - Version 344.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction to Release Notes.................................................... 1 Structure of the Document ........................................................ 1 Changes in this Edition ............................................................. 1 2 Changes in the Release 343 Driver for Windows XP ......................... 2 Version 344.75 Highlights .......................................................... 3 What’s New in Version 344.75 ........................................
TABLE OF CONTENTS More Monitors are Listed in the Windows Device Manager than are Actually Connected ....................................................................... 10 DirectX Fails When Detaching/Reattaching Displays in Dualview Mode 10 OpenGL Viewport Scaling Problem in Horizontal Span Mode............. 10 Video Playback in nView Clone and Span Modes ........................... 10 No Antialiasing of 3DMark03 Image Quality Screen Captures ............
01 INTRODUCTION TO RELEASE NOTES This edition of Release Notes describes the Release 343 family of graphics drivers (versions 343.xx to 345.xx) for Microsoft® Windows® XP. NVIDIA provides these notes to describe performance improvements and bug fixes in each documented version of the driver. Structure of the Document This document is organized in the following sections: “Changes in the Release 343 Driver for Windows XP” on page 2 gives a summary of changes, and fixed and open issues in this version.
02 CHANGES IN THE RELEASE 343 DRIVER FOR WINDOWS XP This chapter describes open issues for version 344.75, and resolved issues and driver enhancements for versions of the Release 343 driver up to version 344.75. The chapter contains these sections: “Version 344.75 Highlights” on page 3 “Open Windows XP Issues in Version 344.75” on page 1 “Not NVIDIA Issues” on page 2 “Known Product Limitations” on page 5 Release 343 Graphics Drivers for Windows - Version 344.
Chapter 02 : C HANGES IN THE RELEASE 343 DRIVER FOR W INDOWS XP Version 344.75 Highlights This section provides highlights of version 344.75 of the NVIDIA Release 343 Driver. What’s New in Version 344.75 What’s New in Release 343 Limitations in This Release Unsupported Features Under Windows XP Advanced Driver Information What’s New in Version 344.75 The new GeForce Game Ready driver, release 344.
Chapter 02 : C HANGES IN THE RELEASE 343 DRIVER FOR W INDOWS XP What’s New in Release 343 The section summarizes the driver changes in Release 343. Dynamic Super Resolution Implemented Dynamic Super Resolution for improved image quality in games. Dynamic Super Resolution produces smoother images by rendering a game at a higher resolution and then downscaling it to the native resolution of the display using advanced filtering. Controls are available on the NVIDIA Control Panel->Manage3D Settings page.
Chapter 02 : C HANGES IN THE RELEASE 343 DRIVER FOR W INDOWS XP • Metro Redux • Monster Hunter Online Benchmark • Ryse: Son of Rome • Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth • Skyforge • Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition • Strife • The Crew • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter • TitanFall • Train Simulator 2015 • World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Release 343 Graphics Drivers for Windows - Version 344.
Chapter 02 : C HANGES IN THE RELEASE 343 DRIVER FOR W INDOWS XP Limitations in This Release The following are features that are not currently supported or have limited support in this driver release: Support for Notebook PCs Starting with Release 270 drivers, NVIDIA Verde drivers for notebook PCs will only be available for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Notebooks running Windows XP are supported by the latest Release 266 WHQL-certified driver here: http:// www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-winxp-266.
Chapter 02 : C HANGES IN THE RELEASE 343 DRIVER FOR W INDOWS XP • Quadro FX/CX/VX Workstation products • Select Quadro NVS Workstation products • Quadro FX and NVS Notebook Products • Quadro Plex 2200 See the section Supported NVIDIA Desktop Products for specific products. Release 343 Graphics Drivers for Windows - Version 344.
Chapter 02 : C HANGES IN THE RELEASE 343 DRIVER FOR W INDOWS XP Unsupported Features Under Windows XP The following are either features that are not supported under Windows XP, or feature limitations that exist under Windows XP: Kepler GPU Limitations Multi-display support The 4-display support of Kepler GPUs1 is not available under Windows XP. Multidisplay support is limited to two displays per Kepler GPU. SLI Support • There is no support for SLI frame rendering (AFR/SFR) or SLI FSAA.
Chapter 02 : C HANGES IN THE RELEASE 343 DRIVER FOR W INDOWS XP Advanced Driver Information This section contains the following additional information about the driver: Differing GPU Voltages in SLI Mode Help for Resizing Your HDTV Desktop Understanding Dynamic GPU Performance Mode Differing GPU Voltages in SLI Mode When non-identical GPUs are used in SLI mode, they may run at different voltages.
Chapter 02 : C HANGES IN THE RELEASE 343 DRIVER FOR W INDOWS XP Remember to select this resolution in your game or other application in order to take advantage of it. Note: tion. Some games or applications may not support the new resolu- Understanding Dynamic GPU Performance Mode With the Release 280 drivers, NVIDIA GPU clock speeds will increase more quickly in response to increased graphics demands.
Open Windows XP Issues in Version 344.75 Open Windows XP Issues in Version 344.75 As with every released driver, version 344.75 has open issues and enhancement requests associated with it. This section includes lists of issues that are either not fixed or not implemented in this version. Some problems listed may not have been thoroughly investigated and, in fact, may not be NVIDIA issues. Others may have workaround solutions.
Not NVIDIA Issues Not NVIDIA Issues This section lists issues that are not due to the NVIDIA driver. “Application Issues” on page 2 “Not NVIDIA Issues–SLI Mode” on page 4 Application Issues All GPUs Dark Void–if you experience issues playing Dark Void, NVIDIA recommends the following steps: a Install all game patches. Retail box owners can get the patch here: http://download.nvidia.com/downloads/ nZone/patches/DarkVoid_PhysX_Update_Patch.
Not NVIDIA Issues This occurs because of an incorrect driver version check in the application. NVIDIA has worked around this issue in the operating system by changing the way the driver version is reported to this application. Warhammer 40k Dawn of War (all versions) does not run with Release 100 drivers.[273154] This occurs because of an incorrect driver version check in the application.
Not NVIDIA Issues Age of Empires 3: Vertical sliver appears near the right side of the introduction videos. [221738] Battlefield 1942 hangs after playing for a few minutes.[265230] This is an application issue with dual-core CPUs. Counter-Strike–the application crashes to the desktop if the resolution or bit-depth is changed from the in-game video options menu.
Known Product Limitations Known Product Limitations This section describes problems that will not be fixed. Usually, the source of the problem is beyond the control of NVIDIA.
Known Product Limitations No PhysX Acceleration Using the GPU If after installing the PhysX System Software you find that there is no PhysX acceleration on supported applications, repeat the PhysX setup as follows: 1 Reboot the PC. 2 Open the NVIDIA Control Panel and then, under 3D Settings, click Set PhyX configuration to open that page. 3 Under Select a PhysX processor, verify that either auto-select or a specific NVIDIA GPU is selected. 4 Click Apply.
Known Product Limitations Using HDMI Audio with Displays that have a High Native Resolution To use HDMI audio with some displays that have a native resolution higher than 1920 × 1080, you must set the display to a lower HD resolution. Some HDMI displays have a native resolution that exceeds the maximum supported HD mode. For example, displays with a native resolution of 1920 × 1200 exceed the maximum supported HD mode of 1920 × 1080.
Known Product Limitations If HDMI-HDTV (Audio Disabled) is selected and you want to test whether your HDMI audio does, in fact, work, then select HDMI-HDTV (Audio Enabled) and the driver will prompt you with instructions for testing HDMI audio with the display. If HDMI-HDTV (Audio Enabled) is selected, then the driver has not successfully detected that an incompatible display is connected. Future drive versions will properly identify such displays and disable audio.
Known Product Limitations 1280 × 1024 @ 60 Hz not Available on BenQ FP241W Monitors Even though the monitor EDID lists 1280 × 1024 @ 60 Hz, the screen turns blank when using an HDMI connection. This is an issue with the monitor and not the NVIDIA driver. Because of this issue with the monitor, the NVIDIA driver blocks the problem mode (1280 × 1024 @ 60 Hz) and makes it unavailable.
Known Product Limitations More Monitors are Listed in the Windows Device Manager than are Actually Connected Problem Many monitors are listed in the Windows Device Manager hardware tree even when only a few are actually connected or enabled. Explanation NVIDIA chooses to expose all potential monitors even though they are not yet connected.
Known Product Limitations • Under nView Clone mode, when full-screen video mirror is not used. • Under nView Span mode, when full-screen video mirror is not used and the video is positioned to span across both monitors. Explanation With applications that render using the hardware overlay—such as DirectX applications—the default driver behavior is to enable the hardware overlay when nView Clone or Span mode is enabled.
Known Product Limitations Medal of Honor Under Windows XP / Windows 2000 Problem The Electronic Arts game Medal of Honor uses a hard coded buffer to parse the OpenGL extension string. This can cause a system crash under Windows XP and Windows 2000. Workaround NVIDIA has implemented Medal of Honor application detection to work around this extension string crash.
Known Product Limitations portion of the content that has changed since the last frame. A common symptom of this problem is geometric structures that incorrectly disappear and re-appear as the scene shifts. Poor Quality S-Video Output on Some TVs NVIDIA drivers differentiate an S-video TV from a composite TV by searching for 75Ohm loads on the chrominance and luminance lines. If the driver detects only one such load, it assumes that it has a composite TV and drives both chroma and luma onto that line.
Known Product Limitations The issue is resolved by applying an operating system registry key as described in the referenced article that instructs the Microsoft operating system to not use the 4M pages, thus avoiding the conflict. The registry key is automatically applied by installation of the latest NVIDIA nForce platform driver package (including 4.57 SMBUS or later).
02 THE RELEASE 343 DRIVER FOR WINDOWS XP This chapter covers the following main topics: “About the Release 343 Driver” on page 15 “Hardware and Software Support” on page 16 “Driver Installation” on page 19 About the Release 343 Driver This driver release is from the Release 343 family of drivers (versions 343.xx to 345.xx). This driver package supports the GeForce 400, 500, 600, and 700-series desktop GPUs.
Chapter 02 : T HE RELEASE 343 D RIVER FOR WINDOWS XP Hardware and Software Support Supported Operating Systems This Release 343 driver includes drivers designed for the following Microsoft® operating systems: Microsoft Windows® XP • Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup2 • Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 • Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 • Windows XP Professional • Windows XP Home Edition • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition • Windows Server 2003 x64 Supported NVIDIA Desktop Pro
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Chapter 02 : T HE RELEASE 343 D RIVER FOR WINDOWS XP Supported Languages The Release 343 Graphics Drivers supports the following languages in the main driver Control Panel: English (USA) German Portuguese (Euro/ Iberian) English (UK) Greek Russian Arabic Hebrew Slovak Chinese (Simplified) Hungarian Slovenian Chinese (Traditional) Italian Spanish Czech Japanese Spanish (Latin America) Danish Korean Swedish Dutch Norwegian Thai Finnish Polish Turkish French Portuguese (Brazil) Re
Chapter 02 : T HE RELEASE 343 D RIVER FOR WINDOWS XP Driver Installation System Requirements The hard disk space requirement for 32 bit is minimum 150 MB for English-only, and 230 MB for International. The hard disk space requirement for 64 bit is minimum 207 MB for English-only, and 300 MB for International.
Chapter 02 : T HE RELEASE 343 D RIVER FOR WINDOWS XP Follow the steps below and/or refer to the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager User’s Guide for details. 1 Open the nView Desktop Manager Profiles page. 2 To preserve your current settings, you can use either the Save or the New option from the nView Desktop Manager Profiles page: • If you want to overwrite the currently loaded profile with your changed settings, use the Save option.
Chapter 02 : T HE RELEASE 343 D RIVER FOR WINDOWS XP About Using Saved Profiles in Another Computer You can easily use any saved profile (.tvp file in the Windows\nView directory) from one computer and use it in another computer, if you want. You’ll need to copy it to the Windows\nView directory of a computer that has the NVIDIA ForceWare graphics display driver, etc. installed properly.
Chapter 02 : T HE RELEASE 343 D RIVER FOR WINDOWS XP Installing the NVIDIA Graphics Drivers 1 Follow the instructions on the NVIDIA.com Web site driver download page to locate the appropriate driver to download, based on your hardware and operating system. 2 From the driver download page, click the download button. The Download Confirmation page appears. 3 If you agree to the “License For Customer Use of NVIDIA Software”, click the Agree & Download button to begin the download.
APPENDIX A MODE SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS This chapter details the Windows modes supported by the Release 343 driver for NVIDIA products. It contains these sections: “General Mode Support Information” on page 24 “Default Modes Supported by GPU for Windows XP” on page 25 “Modes Supported by TV Encoders” on page 31 Release 343 Graphics Drivers for Windows - Version 344.
Appendix A : MODE S UPPORT FOR WINDOWS General Mode Support Information The NVIDIA graphics driver includes a standard list of display modes that are supported by default. These modes are listed in the section “Default Modes Supported by GPU for Windows XP” on page 25. The actual modes available depend on the capabilities of the display.
Appendix A : MODE S UPPORT FOR WINDOWS Default Modes Supported by GPU for Windows XP This section lists the modes that are included by default in the driver INF for the following product families: “GeForce 700, 600, 500, 400 Series GPUs” on page 26 Understanding the Mode Format Figure A.1 gives an example of how to read the mode information presented in this section.
Appendix A : MODE S UPPORT FOR WINDOWS GeForce 700, 600, 500, 400 Series GPUs This sections lists the supported display resolutions, color depths, and refresh rates for the products listed in “Supported NVIDIA Desktop Products” on page 16.
Appendix A : MODE S UPPORT FOR WINDOWS 1920 x 1200 16 60 70 72 75 85 100 1920 x 1440 16 60 70 72 75 85 2048 x 1536 16 60 -----------------------------------------------------------------640 x 480 32 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 200 240 720 x 480 32 60 720 x 576 32 50 60 800 x 600 32 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 200 240 1024 x 768 32 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 200 240 1152 x 864 32 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 200 1280 x 720 32 60
Appendix A : MODE S UPPORT FOR WINDOWS -----------------------------------------------------------------1280 x 480 16 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 200 240 1600 x 600 16 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 200 240 2048 x 768 16 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 200 240 2304 x 864 16 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 200 2560 x 720 16 60 2560 x 768 16 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 2560 x 800 16 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 2560 x 960 16
Appendix A : MODE S UPPORT FOR WINDOWS 1280 x 1440 8 60 1280 x 1536 8 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 1280 x 1600 8 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 1280 x 1920 8 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 1280 x 2048 8 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 1360 x 1536 8 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 170 1600 x 1800 8 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 140 144 150 1600 x 2048 8 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 1600 x 2400 8 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 1680 x 2100 8 60 1920 x 2160 8 60
Appendix A : MODE S UPPORT FOR WINDOWS 1600 x 2400 32 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 1680 x 2100 32 60 1920 x 2160 32 60 1920 x 2400 32 60 70 72 75 85 100 1920 x 2880 32 60 70 72 75 85 2048 x 3072 32 60 Release 343 Graphics Drivers for Windows - Version 344.
Appendix A : MODE S UPPORT FOR WINDOWS Modes Supported by TV Encoders Table A.3 and Table A.4 list the NTSC, PAL, and HDTV TV-Out modes supported by the NVIDIA driver. Table A.
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