Drivers

Drivers for professional Nvidia Quadro FX graphics cards remind us of Forceware that we all know very well from the gaming solutions. The control panel looks the same and offers almost the same settings. The only difference is that the offered settings profiles belong to the professional applications and not to 3D games.

Just like Catalyst, Nvidia drivers can automatically switch between different profiles depending on the running application. However, Forceware software allows editing these profiles manually, while catalyst doesn’t.

I would like to point out that Nvidia offers not only basic drivers for its professional solutions. You can also download two additional utilities compatible with Quadro FX from the company web-site: MAXtreme D3Dand Powerdraft. These are specialized drivers for Autodesk 3ds max and Autodesk AutoCAD. These special drivers help boost the professional graphics cards performance in the above listed CAD applications.