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Windows Display Driver Model

Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM, initially LDDM as Longhorn Display Driver Model and then WVDDM in times of Windows Vista) is the graphic driver architecture for video card drivers running Microsoft Windows versions beginning with Windows Vista.

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Windows Display Driver Model

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Edges83
Triples45
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02381
Components1

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Windows Display Driver Model

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related to Need for a new display driver model · 22
Windows Display Driver Model → Also, As, Because, Compiz, Desktop Window Manager, Direct3D, DirectX, DWM, DWM-managed, GPU, GPUs, Microsoft, Microsoft's, One, Quartz, Since, Successful, The, Though, WDDM

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windows wddm driver new display support direct3d model video 10 memory gpu drivers hardware version graphics includes allowing mode update

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the Intel GMA 900 fails the WDDM certification.One of the limitations of WDDM driver model version 1.0 is that it does not support multiple drivers in a multi-adapterinstance ofconsequently some SM 2.0-supporting hardware0.80text
multi-monitor setupinstance ofconsequently some SM 2.0-supporting hardware0.80text
spanning modeinstance ofWDDM 1.1 does not have this limitation.WDDM 1.0/1.1 does not allow some modes that were previously handled by the driver0.80text
Quartzinstance ofSuccessful implementations of composited desktops were done before Windows Vista on other platforms0.80text
Compizinstance ofSuccessful implementations of composited desktops were done before Windows Vista on other platforms0.80text
WindowFXinstance ofSuccessful implementations of composited desktops were done before Windows Vista on other platforms0.80text
temperatureinstance ofan extension to expose information about the GPU hardware0.80text
fan speedinstance ofan extension to expose information about the GPU hardware0.80text
clock speeds for enginesinstance ofan extension to expose information about the GPU hardware0.80text
memoryinstance ofan extension to expose information about the GPU hardware0.80text
memory bandwidthinstance ofan extension to expose information about the GPU hardware0.80text
power drawinstance ofan extension to expose information about the GPU hardware0.80text

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