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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2009
Methods and system for artifically and dynamically limiting the display resolution of an application
Franck Diard, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ganesh Kadaba, Cupertino, CA (US);
Franck Diard, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ganesh Kadaba, Cupertino, CA (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to provide a method and system for automatically applying artificial limits to display resolutions in a computing system to improve performance. Embodiments are described herein that automatically limits the display resolution of an application executing in a discrete graphics processing unit operating from configurations with limited means of data transfer to the system memory. By automatically limiting the resolution in certain detected circumstances, the rate of generated graphics data may be dramatically increased. Another embodiment is also provided which allows for the automatic detection of an application's initialization and pro-actively limiting the user-selectable resolutions in which the output of the application may be displayed in to a maximum resolution calculated for optimal performance. The application's termination is also detected, whereupon a comprehensive list of supported resolutions becomes available.