nVidia Detonator Release 40 Features

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Enhanced Display Driver, DirectX, and Video Capabilities

WindowsXP SP1

Release 40 supports WindowsXP SP1, including support for Windows XP Tablet PC and eHome technology.
Release 40 provides support for bugcheck EA callbacks, enabling OCA EA failures to be resolved more quickly while assisting to identify failure causes?such as due to chip instability or overclocking.
Rotation Support
Release 40 supports desktop rotation1, which allows the user to rotate the desktop by 90, 180, or 270 degrees.


Controls
Desktop rotation is controlled through the NVIDIA display properties panel, or integrated seamlessly with WindowsXP TabletPC.
Graphics API Support
NVIDIA Rotation includes support for windowed and full-screen applications in all rotation modes for Direct3D and OpenGL applications.
Hardware Platforms
Rotation functionality is supported on desktop, mobile, and Tablet PCs.
DirectX 9 Support

When Microsoft releases DirectX 9 runtime, Release 40 will provide support for DirectX 9, which includes the new vertex shaders, antialiasing modes, and multi-display device support.

Robust Channels

Robust Channels significantly improves driver stability by detecting and recovering from hardware errors.

With NVIDIA's Robust Channels feature, hardware problems?such as system errors caused by corruption on the AGP bus or GPU errors caused by transient thermal or power management conditions?will not cause the driver to fail.

Video Enhancements

Changes in the video driver include:
Flip Sync functionality support
Support for multiple Macrovision clients
Simplified Video Mirror controls
TV Overscan Support

Depending on the TV encoder used, Release 40 supports TV overscan?allowing the user to eliminate the black borders around the TV display screen. This option is accessible through the NVIDIA display properties control panel.

Additional Enhancements
Improved support for wide aspect ratio screen resolutions.
Improved memory management support for Dualview.
Improved memory management support for OpenGL

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Enhanced nView Desktop Manager Features

Feature Enhancements

The following features have been enhanced in the new version of NVIDIA nView:

OS Support:
NVIDIA nView supports WindowsNT 4.0, Windows9X/Me, and Windows2000/XP.
Profile Feature
Display Modes are now saved to?and loaded from each profile
Multiple Desktop Support
The following have been added to the NVIDIA nView multiple desktop feature:
Support for multi-monitor wallpaper selection
Graphical display in explorer shell extension
Support for icons to represent desktops
Support for arbitrary positioning of windows on the desktops
Zoom Support
- New fixed-frame zoom
- Bi-directional zoom editing capability
New Features

The following are features that have been added to the new version of NVIDIA nView:
NV-Switcher
- Improved Alt+Tab switcher which also supports Desktop switching
- NV-Switcher is expandable to other NVIDIA features
Color Keyed Windows
Allows the user to color key windows for easy identification when activating them on the desktop.
Keystone Support2
Taskbar and Menu Transparency
New window actions, such as "Collapse"
New applications settings, including a full set of application launch and disable settings.

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New Graphical User Interface

Media Center Tray Application

The Media Center Tray is a new application that replaces QuickTweak.

The Media Center tray is accessible through the Windows taskbar, and contains menu items that provide access to all NVIDIA user interface software applications in addition to the same display settings that the QuickTweak menu contained.

New Display Properties Panel

The NVIDIA control panel (accessed through the Windows Display Properties ->Settings- >Advanced page) has been redesigned to make navigating easier and to improve control over the display adapter settings.

Some of the new features include the following:

Slider trays allow all pages to be available from the top level page.
Dynamic tracking allows the pages to adapt to the state of the driver, and user interface controls are modified, or even created, accordingly.
Driver configuration changes are maintained across driver installations.

OpenGL Enhancements

OpenGL 1.4 ICD with Nvidia Extensions

New extension includes ARB_vertex_program, which co-exists with NV_vertex_program.
Meets new conformance tests
Enhancements for Workstation Applications
NV1x line stipple enhancements
NV2x 2-sided lighting optimizations
Immediate mode optimizations for Solid Edge.
Display list tuning for UGv17.
Additional OpenGL Enhancements
Multi-monitor Improvements
New accelerated spanning mode is enabled by default.
Reduced Power Consumption
Release 40 utilizes CPU cycles more efficiently, resulting in reduced power consumption without sacrificing performance.
Dynamic AGP/Video memory management
- Accommodates multiple applications open at the same time
- Dynamic Memory Resizing - Allowance for additional memory tuning
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