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Mar 02, 2007 09:40

I'm so far behind livejournal :) but I will go back and catch up I promiseIn other news I've been playing with Windows Vista on my system at home for the last .... week or so now, and generally I think I'm not too impressed. I know it'll improve with time (I remember how bad XP was compared to Win2k when XP was first released, and now their ( Read more... )

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timew March 2 2007, 17:48:22 UTC

I've dual booted vista and xp64 on both my work p.c.'s (greedy :P) altho I only have a directx9 compliant card in the custom built one, the other one is onboard intel gfx but has a faster duo core 64-bit cpu.. go figure... so I'm lacking the aero theme on one. I might get it a new gfx card this week if it bothers me that much.

captainnem March 3 2007, 06:50:02 UTC

haha I wouldn't say it's greedy ... that's what I do on my system at home and I paid for them both so I daresay I deserve to run 'em ( ... )

timew March 6 2007, 08:37:44 UTC

the onboard card thats in your laptop is a radeon mobility or something similar which are direct 9 compliant. All intel onboards are directx8 compliant as far as I know. Simply installing DirectX9 or 10 doesn't fix this because the features have to be supported by the card.

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timew March 11 2007, 06:57:51 UTC

I hope I eat my own words on DirectX10 :) It'd be nice if it supported DirectX8 hardware as its own.

captainnem March 12 2007, 23:18:21 UTC

Well ... remember all the fanfare ATI and nVidia were touting when they released their fully programmable GPU's ? Surely all it would take is for ATI and nVidia, after the DX10 specification is released, to write a piece of code that gets loaded into the video card when the driver loads, and BAM the system now supports DirectX10 in hardware. I guess things like GPU clock and texture memory and pipelines and all that jazz need to still have enough processing and bandwidth to cover it, but given the simplicity of how Aero is running things, I would have figured that a Radeon 9200 would be more than adequate for it, even if it's not directly a DirectX 9 card. (probably a terrible example) I guess it wouldn't beat the raw processing of a completely hardware implemented solution, but I'd be very surprised if this is how things are running even now. I'm sure there are big chunks of processing done in software within the GPU that would be driver load and unloadable ( ... )

timew March 31 2007, 14:09:58 UTC

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