NVIDIA Cg Toolkit 1.3 Beta 2 Released

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1.3 Beta 2 has been released with support for the latest GeForce 6 Series (NV4X) GPUs. This version of Cg offers the following features and improvements:

New vp40 profile, which enables texture sampling from within vertex programs New fp40 profile, which provides a robust branching model in fragment programs, and support for output to multiple draw buffers ("MRTs") Support for writing more than one color output (i.e., MRTs) in the arbfp1 and ps_2* profiles New semantics to access OpenGL fixed-function state vectors from within ARB_vertex_program and ARB_fragment_program New "-fastprecision" option for arbfp*, fp30, and fp40 profiles, to use reduced precision storage (fp16) when appropriate. Support for 16 profiles

NVIDIA Cg Toolkit 1.3 Beta 2