Hi Guys (and Girls)
I see that the Nvidia Quadro OEM 341.05 Drivers are out:
Anyone with good or bad experiences with these updated driver on their quadro?
From the website:
ODE Driver This is the third release for the R340 drivers, the seventh ‘Optimal Drivers for Enterprise’ [ODE].
ODE branches are dedicated to relatively long term stability for ISV certification, OEMs, and Enterprise customers.
New in Release 341.05:
OpenGL hardware acceleration on Windows Remote Desktop
CUDA 6.5
New Nview Version 141.36
Workstation application compatibility fixes.
Additional information about changes to the current driver can be found here:
Something interesting is on PG18 - Changes in Version 341.05 it says:
[Optimus][Rhino]: Rhino needs to be added to the Optimus whitelist.
Which seems to have something to do with Laptop Quadros if you read this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/optimus_technology.html
It says “needs” so I gather Nvidia haven’t done so yet.?
On Pg 19 the PDF lists changes to V 340.84 as being:
[Rhino]: New application profile created.
I don’t see a Rhino Application profile anywhere?
ALSO
I found this info in another Nvidia PDF:
About the Global Presets
Global profiles, or presets, are a set of 3D settings that the driver applies to any
workstation application. While a specific profile contains settings that work best with a
particular application, the settings are applied to any workstation application you run, as
long as there are no ACE-detected program settings to override them.
The following are descriptions of the available global presets:
Base profile
This preset lets you configure all the settings, and provides the most flexibility. Other
presets allow you to configure only a limited selection of settings.
3D App - Default Global Settings
This preset uses SLI single-GPU rendering mode, and is also useful when you need to
use non-SLI configurations.
3D App - Game Development
This preset is useful for game development when using an NVIDIA Quadro card. This
eliminates the need for game developers to switch to a GeForce graphics card as the
settings cause the Quadro card to run like a GeForce card.
3D App - Modeling AFR
This preset is useful for modeling applications, and uses SLI AFR mode.
3D App - Visual Simulation
This preset is useful for visual simulation applications, and uses SLI SFR mode.
From WIKI:
If a computer has two video cards that combine their outputs into a
single video monitor, then one of four methods could be used to create
the images.
Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR):
One graphics processing unit (GPU) computes all the odd video frames, the other renders the even frames. (i.e. time division)
Split Frame Rendering (SFR):
One GPU renders the top half of each video frame, the other does the bottom. (i.e. plane division)
Checker board:
As the name implies, the image is split into smaller squares, which are assigned to different cardsScan-Line
Interleave:
The origin of the SLI trademark, as employed by the 3dfx Voodoo2, which renders a frame’s even scan-lines on the first GPU and its odd scan-lines on the second.
The SLI trademark passed to Nvidia upon its acquisition of 3dfx in 2000 and now stands for Scalable Link Interface.
Here is a better PDF explaining the methods: