Unified Driver Architecture Offered At No Cost

Booth #5058-29

Nvidia's ForceWare release 50 graphics driver is a new unified driver architecture (UDA) engineered to provide high performance and image quality on both Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL applications. In addition to its excellent DirectX 9.0 application performance, this new graphics driver also delivers compatibility, stability, and reliability across all Nvidia GPUs.

The graphics driver, complete with Microsoft DirectX 9.0 WHQL certification, is free of charge and available on the company's Web site.

The graphics drivers include the company's unified compiler technology that translates shader programs so that they are optimized for the Nvidia GPU architecture, substantially improving the performance of next-generation DirectX 9.0 titles such as HalfLife 2, XIII and more.

Other features include:

· Enhanced image quality for both anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing

· A new NVIDIA nView 3.0 multi-display setup wizard for easy configuration of multi-display settings

· nView gridlines to section off the display to help organize various windows

· Customized user profiles to save display settings and image quality settings on a per application/game basis

· A user-friendly interface

· Microsoft DirectX and OpenGL support

Nvidia Corp.
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