High-Quality Media Server
The NVIDIA ForceWare Multimedia application fully integrates all PC
multimedia functionality into a simple to use interface. With
ForceWare Multimedia you can record live TV, watch DVDs, burn a
favorite TV show to recordable media, listen to music, and even
stream content to ForceWare Multimedia clients running on other
PCs. ForceWare Multimedia delivers the ultimate digital
entertainment experience on NVIDIA Personal Cinema™ solutions
and NVIDIA GPUs.
INTEGRATED USER INTERFACE
The ForceWare Multimedia application delivers all of your next-
generation multimedia—including TV, personal video recording,
DVD, and file playback capabilities—in an integrated user interface.
To start, just select your desired mode and your experience begins
immediately. The standard look and feel ensures easy navigation
and control of each multimedia mode.
WATCH AND RECORD YOUR FAVORITE T V SHOW*
At the heart of the ForceWare Multimedia application are its next-
generation TV and PVR capabilities. With support for playing,
pausing, and recording live TV, ForceWare Multimedia ensures you
will never miss your favorite TV programs. Finding shows to watch
just got easier with the free Gemstar GUIDE Plus+™ system
electronic program guide (EPG). And if you won’t be home to
watch the show, just use the PVR to set future recordings.
WATCH T V FROM ANYWHERE
For users who have their own home network, ForceWare
Multimedia’s media server capabilities allow client PCs to
broadcast both live TV and recorded shows over the network.
Build a media server with an NVIDIA Personal Cinema and the
ForceWare Multimedia application in order to record and serve
live TV to other client PCs in your house connected via a wired
or wireless network. Experience the ultimate in networked TV
viewing with ForceWare Multimedia.
INCREDIBLE DVD EXPERIENCE
ForceWare Multimedia combines the ultimate DVD video and audio
playback with advanced features and intuitive controls to enable a
home theater experience on any desktop or notebook PC.
Experience immersive Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS, or Dolby Pro Logic II**
audio and the industry’s most advanced MPEG-2 decoder for crisp,
smooth video playback all on your PC.
BUILD YOUR OWN T V LIBRARY
If you have a CD or DVD burner, ForceWare Multimedia lets you
transfer recorded TV shows directly to DVD, SVCD, or VCD.
Creating your own TV archive has never been easier since the
burn functionality links directly to the EPG data allowing you to
quickly select by name the programs that you want to record. * ForceWare Multimedia requires an NVIDIA Personal Cinema card equipped with a
TV tuner to watch and record live TV.
** Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS, and Dolby Pro Logic II are not available on all versions of
the players. Consult the manufacturer or documentation for a full list of supported
audio modes.
Powering the World’s BestMedia Center PCs
Imagine all your digital media—TV, pictures, home movies,
music—all in one place, and accessible from a single remote
control. The Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition (MCE)
operating system combined with NVIDIA technology turns your
desktop or notebook PC into an entertainment center, making it
the most exciting Windows-based computer on the market today.
CUSTOM MEDIA CENTER CONTROLS
NVIDIA ForceWare software provides custom settings for Media
Center systems. These settings allow users to control the color
scheme, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, gamma, and
digital vibrance of live TV and DVDs all from the simple to use
Microsoft Media Center remote control.
EXTENDED COLOR SUPPORT DRIVERS
With extended color support drivers, NVIDIA ForceWare software
delivers a full range of dynamic color, preventing the loss of blacks
and whites that commonly occurs when converting between video
and standard computer monitors. By offering the full spectrum of
color, NVIDIA color space conversion preserves the original color
fidelity of video information for a richer, truer viewing experience.
NVIDIA DIGITAL VIBRANCE CONTROL
ForceWare features NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control™ technology
with special color control settings so you can adjust the levels of
digital vibrance, brightness, contrast, and gamma in your photos.
Fully Integrated TV, PVR, DVD, EPG, and
File Player
Networked Viewing of Timeshifted TV
and Recorded Shows
Gemstar GUIDE Plus+™ System EPG
High-Quality DVD Playback
Easily Create DVDs, SVCDs, and VCDs
MULTIMEDIA FEATURES
Custom Windows Media Center Control
Settings
Extended Color Support Drivers for
Windows Media Center
NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control
MEDIA CENTER EDITION FEATURES
nView 3.0***
3D Stereo
Digital Vibrance Control
NVRotate/NVKeystone
HDTV***
Windows Media Center Controls
ForceWare Multimedia**
Extended Color Support
PowerMizer
NVIDIA System Utility
NVIDIA NVMixer
NVIDIA RAID
NVIDIA Security
GeForce GPUs GeForce Go GPUs NVIDIA Personal Cinema NVIDIA nForce MCPs*
UNIFIED SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT
Today’s graphics processing units (GPUs) and media and
communications processors (MCPs) are highly sophisticated and
complex processors, and when combined they enable a high-
performance computing platform. It takes a powerful suite of
software to complement these innovative processors.
The NVIDIA® ForceWare™ unified software environment (USE)
unleashes the full power of, and delivers a complete set of
features for NVIDIA desktop, platform, mobile, and multimedia
products and is proven to deliver unmatched compatibility,
reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and
applications. ForceWare ensures the best out of box experience
for every user by delivering industry-leading features for
graphics, audio, video, communications, storage, and security;
one driver for all products; and continual performance and
feature updates over the life of the product.
ForceWare provides a host of complementary software features
for NVIDIA hardware, designed to increase productivity,
stability, and multimedia functionality. From the productivity
tools of the NVIDIA® nView™ desktop management software to
the NVIDIA personal video recorder (PVR) and DVD functionality
of the ForceWare Multimedia application, ForceWare solutions
ensure that you maximize your NVIDIA hardware investment.
UNIFIED DRIVER ARCHITECTURE
The NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) is the foundation
for NVIDIA’s award-winning graphics and platform drivers and
delivers forward-and-backward compatibility across all
implementations of NVIDIA desktop, mobile, platform, and
multimedia processors. With a single UDA driver across your
enterprise, only one driver has to be managed, configured, and
installed. In addition, UDA provides ongoing performance and
feature improvements, reduced maintenance time, increased
scalability, and a lower total cost of ownership.
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EXPERIENCE
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* NVIDIA nForce MCPs can be paired with GeForce GPUs foradditional ForceWare functionality.
** The TV tuning and PVR features of ForceWare Multimedia requireat least one NVIDIA Personal Cinema board to be installed on ahome network.
***NVIDIA GPUs are enabled to support multi-displays and HDTV, butgraphics cards vary. Please verify multi-display and HDTV support in the graphics cardbefore purchasing.
The Entertainment Solution
ForceWare desktop features deliver the industry’s highest visual
quality and performance to NVIDIA® GeForce™ GPUs, while enabling
users to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies such as HDTV
and the Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 API. With ForceWare’s robust set of
display and desktop management utilities, you can customize your
Microsoft Windows® desktop to your own unique configuration.
SOFTWARE SUPPORT FOR THE HOTTEST
GAMES
With the ForceWare graphics drivers powering your
GeForce GPU, you can run the latest games and
applications at unmatched speeds and resolutions.
ForceWare graphics drivers ensure that the latest
DirectX 9 and OpenGL® games look and perform better.
Featuring an easy to use control panel, ForceWare graphics
drivers give you full control over image quality and performance so
you can experience your game the way it’s meant to be played.
NVIEW: SEE WHAT YOU’VE BEEN MISSING
nView multi-display software enables you to connect two displays
to a single GPU*, doubling your desktop real estate. Instead of
stacking window upon window within the confines of a single
display, nView allows you to spread your work across multiple
displays. Increase your productivity by doing e-mail on one
display while surfing the Web, creating a Microsoft PowerPoint®
presentation, or watching a movie on the other.
HDT V: HIGH-RESOLUTION VIDEO PLAYBACK
Make your PC the center of your home theater system by
connecting a high definition television (HDTV) to your GeForce FX*
GPU. The ForceWare graphics drivers support standard HDTV
formats including 480p, 720p, and 1080i to deliver uncompromising
DVD and high-definition video quality on the latest widescreen
flat panel displays and high-resolution televisions.
3D STEREO: MAKE YOUR 3D GAMES COME ALIVE
ForceWare 3D Stereo immerses you in the world of 3D content like
never before. Simply connect 3D-enabled glasses or monitors to
your GPU and ForceWare does the rest. Monsters, bullets, and
landscapes jump out of your monitor and into your imagination,
fully immersing you in the game. With ForceWare 3D Stereo, gaming
will never be the same.
NVROTATE: IMPROVE YOUR POINT OF VIEW
Many of today’s LCD flat panels support rotate (or pivot)
mode natively within their monitor stand. NVRotate
allows you to pivot these displays when connected to an
NVIDIA GPU from landscape to portrait mode for easier
word processing, desktop publishing, or legal document
reviewing, while still providing hardware acceleration for
2D/3D applications and video playback.
NVIDIA DIGITAL VIBRANCE CONTROL
ForceWare features NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control™ technology
with special color control settings so you can digitally adjust the
levels of digital vibrance, brightness, contrast, and gamma to
compensate for the lighting conditions of your workspace.
* NVIDIA GPUs are enabled to support multi-displays and HDTV, but graphics cards vary.
Please verify multi-display and HDTV support in the graphics card before purchasing.
Complete Integration withMaximum Control
NVIDIA ForceWare platform software delivers high-speed system
performance, unparalleled security, and incredible audio quality for
NVIDIA nForce™ media and communications processors (MCPs).
NVIDIA SYSTEM UTILIT Y
Designed for those users pushing system performance to the
edge, the NVIDIA System Utility lets you monitor system and
CPU temperature, voltages, bus speeds, and CPU core speed in
real time. You can dynamically
adjust bus speeds, memory
timings, and voltages in a safe,
easy to use Windows interface,
and overclock or underclock
system settings without entering
BIOS or changing jumpers. For
advanced users, you can also
change BIOS settings from a
Windows environment with direct
BIOS access, and save those
settings to a profile for export or
for later use.
NVIDIA RAID:
POWERFUL DISK MANAGEMENT
For consumers and small businesses that need high-end disk
management solutions, NVIDIA RAID and NVIDIA nForce MCPs
deliver unprecedented flexibility for performance and disk
management. Featuring a unique combination of RAID 0, 1, and
0+1 technology and the ability—through a powerful, simple to
use interface—to morph, transform, and rebuild RAID devices,
the NVIDIA RAID technology lowers the total cost of ownership
for optimized, highly available data storage solutions.
NVIDIA SECURIT Y: NETWORK SECURIT Y FOR YOUR PC
Today’s networks require extensive measures to protect systems
and applications from unauthorized access and malicious acts
that can result in lost data, network outages, downed systems,
and other disasters that can directly impact a company’s
bottom line. ForceWare software for NVIDIA platform solutions
introduces two invaluable capabilities to support security
management efforts: NVIDIA personal firewall, and NVIDIA
antihacking features. NVIDIA personal firewall provides
support for stateful and stateless firewall inspection. The
NVIDIA antihacking feature includes checks for inconsistent IP
addresses, and eliminates this type of traffic at the source.
NVIDIA NVMIXER:
IMMERSIVE SURROUND SOUND
The NVIDIA NVMixer application enables users
to completely control all aspects of their audio
experience on any NVIDIA nForce MCP. Now all the
controls are at your fingertips: volume adjustment,
recording options, speaker configuration, easy to
follow wizards, and more. NVMixer is the center of
the NVIDIA nForce audio experience and helps you
to achieve rich surround sound from your NVIDIA
nForce-based PC.
Productivity and EntertainmentOn the Go
For users on the go, longer battery life and easy integration
with external displays are a must. ForceWare mobile solutions
feature advanced power management features and flexible
display options to ensure maximum productivity and longer
uptime for mobile PC users using NVIDIA Go mobile GPUs.
POWERMIZER: PORTABLE PROCESSING WITH
POWER TO SPARE
Featuring the advanced NVIDIA PowerMizer™ technology, a
dynamic power management tool, ForceWare mobile features
allow notebook users to adjust system performance and battery
consumption to their specific needs. For some users,
consistently high frame rates in their favorite games are a
must. For others, such as frequent travelers on transatlantic
flights, long battery life is a necessity for keeping up with
work or for watching DVDs. PowerMizer puts you in control.
NVKEYSTONE: PROJECT ANYWHERE
Imagine never having to worry about optical distortions and visual
artifacts due to poor projector setups. NVKeystone real-time display
correction technology allows users to display onto any surface with
lossless picture quality through intuitive user controls. With full
hardware acceleration for all NVIDIA GPUs, NVKeystone software is
bundled free with ForceWare software graphics kits and is a must
have for every mobile PC attached to an external projector.
NVIEW: MAXIMUM DISPLAY AND DESKTOP FLEXIBILIT Y
For users that travel between home and work with different multi-
display setups, nView multi-display software lets you manage your
different configurations. At work you may use your notebook with
a second display, while at home it’s just your notebook. With
nView you can create custom profiles for each setup and easily
load them through keyboard hotkeys, quickly changing display
configuration, desktop resolution, and application management.
And for mobile tablet PCs, NVRotate supports 90 degree rotate
mode for easy portrait viewing of your display.
SOFTWARE SUPPORT FOR THE HOTTEST GAMES
With the ForceWare graphics drivers powering your NVIDIA Go
GPU, you can run the latest games and applications at
unmatched speeds and resolutions. ForceWare graphics drivers
ensure the latest DirectX 9 and OpenGL® games look and
perform better. Featuring an easy to use control panel,
ForceWare graphics drivers give you full
control over image quality and
performance so you can experience
your game the way it’s meant to
be played, even on the go.
DirectX and OpenGL Graphics Drivers
and Control Panels for Incredible
Gaming
NVIDIA nView Multi-Display Software
HDTV Support
3D Stereo Gaming
NVRotate Pivot Software
NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control
DESKTOP FEATURES
NVIDIA System Utility
NVIDIA RAID Technology
NVIDIA NVMixer
Firewall
NVIDIA Antihacking Feature
PLATFORM FEATURES
NVIDIA PowerMizer Intelligent Power
Monitoring Solution
NVKeystone Real-Time Display
Correction Technology
NVIDIA nView Multi-Display Software
NVRotate Pivot Software
Incredible 3D Gaming and Video Quality
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