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2. Nvidia Ion - Wikipedia

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   Nvidia has ceased Windows driver support for Nvidia ION series on April 1, 2016. [30] Windows XP 32-bit & Media Center Edition: version 340.52 (WHQL) released on July 29, 2014; Download; Windows XP 64-bit: version 340.52 (WHQL) released on July 29, 2014; Download

3. DirectX Video Acceleration - Wikipedia

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   DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) is a Microsoft API specification for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms that allows video decoding to be hardware-accelerated. The pipeline allows certain CPU -intensive operations such as iDCT , motion compensation and deinterlacing to be offloaded to the GPU .

4. Free and open-source graphics device driver - Wikipedia

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   Drivers without freely (and legally) -available source code are commonly known as binary drivers. Binary drivers used in the context of operating systems that are prone to ongoing development and change (such as Linux) create problems for end users and package maintainers. These problems, which affect system stability, security and performance ...

5. Nvidia PureVideo - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft's Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center and modern video players support PureVideo. Nvidia also sells PureVideo decoder software which can be used with media players which use DirectShow. Systems with dual GPU's either need to configure the codec or run the application on the Nvidia GPU to utilize PureVideo.

6. Device driver - Wikipedia

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   In the context of an operating system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton. [1] A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions without needing to ...

7. Driver (software) - Wikipedia

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   A driver in software provides a programming interface to control and manage specific lower-level interfaces that are often linked to a specific type of hardware, or other low-level service. In the case of hardware, the specific subclass of drivers controlling physical or virtual hardware devices are known as device drivers.