NVIDIA Corporation 3Chapter 1IntroductionNVIDIA Display Properties and nView Desktop ManagerThe NVIDIA ForceWare graphics display driver includes two major control panel-based components — NVIDIA display properties and nView Desktop Manager.In general terms, “nView™” represents a collection of multi-display technologiesencompassing driver support, multi-display GPU architecture, and desktopmanagement support.• NVIDIA display properties, the topic of this user’s guide, refers to the controlpanel-based user interface from which you can configure the advanced displayproperties of the current release of the NVIDIA ForceWare graphics driver.For details on using the NVIDIA display control panel menu, see “Accessing theNVIDIA Display Control Panel Pages” on page 20.• nView Desktop Manager is a user-level application utility that focuses on makingyou more productive when working on your Windows® desktop. nView DesktopManager was originally created for multi-display graphics cards but has grown toenhance single-display user desktops as well. Desktop Manager supports bothsingle-display and multi-display configurations running with single-display,multi-display, or multiple graphics cards based on NVIDIA GPUs.For details on using nView Desktop Manager features, refer to the NVIDIAForceWare Graphics Drivers: nView Desktop Manager User’s Guide.Release 80 EnhancementsNVIDIA SLITM Enhancements• Dynamic Enable/Disable CapabilitySystem reboot is no longer required after enabling or disabling SLI from thecontrol panel.• Cross-card compatibilitySLI no longer requires that graphics cards be identical, but they must still have thesame core GPU.• SLI performance without an SLI (bridge) connector on select graphics cards for themainstream market
