# R2016a and NVidia graphics drivers on Windows.

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**Created:** [March 14, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/r2016a-and-nvidia-graphics-drivers-on-windows/1925 "2016-03-14T16:03:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/r2016a-and-nvidia-graphics-drivers-on-windows/1925/1 "2016-03-14T16:03:17Z")

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I was just skimming the R2016a release notes online and found this snippet, which could be relevant for Windows users with NVidia graphics:  
  
"If you are using a Windows NVIDIA® graphics driver older than version 9.18.13.4052 (or 340.52 in NVIDIA driver version convention), then MATLAB reverts to using software OpenGL® instead of hardware-accelerated OpenGL. Hardware-accelerated OpenGL is not available by default due to known instabilities with the driver when running MATLAB. To take advantage of all the visual and performance benefits of hardware-accelerated OpenGL, update your graphics driver to the latest version."  

Hope it helps,

-mario