Nvidia Creative Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT2 - Manual (Page 17)

Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT2 Value Installation Guide 17
❑ Backend blend
• 32-bit ARGB rendering with destination alpha
• Point sampled, bilinear, trilinear and 8-tap
• Anisotropic filtering
❑ Per pixel perspective correct texture mapping
• Fog
• Light
• Mipmapping
❑ 24-bit or 16-bit hardware Z-buffer (fixed or floating)
❑ 8-bit stencil buffer
❑ Full scene anti-aliasing
2D Features ❑ High performance 128-bit 2D/GUI/DirectDraw acceleration
• Accelerated primitives include BLT, indexed DIB color translation, transparent BLT,
stretch BLT, points, lines, polylines, polygons, fills, patterns, arbitrary rectangular
clipping and fast text rendering hardware font cache
• Pipeline optimized for multiple color depths including 32, 24, 16, 15, and 8 bits per
pixel
❑ Fast 32-bit VGA/SVGA support
❑ Multi-buffering (Double, Triple, Quad buffering) for smooth animation and video playback
Video Support ❑ Video acceleration for DirectShow, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and Indeo
❑ X and Y smooth up and down scaling with filtering
❑ Per-pixel color keying
❑ Multiple video windows with hardware color space conversion and filtering (YUV 4:2:2
and 4:2:0)
❑ Video port supports ITU-CCIR 565
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