ninedice
Dec 1 2008, 11:01 PM
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-cpu-gpu,6645.htmlQUOTE
This week, Microsoft unveiled one of Windows 7’s new features, which will allow games and other DirectX 10 and 10.1-based applications to run fully accelerated on obsolete graphics hardware, and even on systems with no graphics acceleration at all.
So, just another empty promise?
Elanzer
Dec 1 2008, 11:15 PM
Hmm, so it's essentially emulated DirectX. No doubt it could be done but I can't imagine it being much use other than displaying a slideshow showing those cheap family PCs which come with an alright processor but budget GPU what they could get if they upgraded.
ninedice
Dec 2 2008, 01:41 AM
do you think it would help gaming pcs any?
(im only beginning my college education, so i know about as much as it took to build my pc)
Elanzer
Dec 2 2008, 03:15 AM
If they could get it working alongside GPU acceleration then it could potentially help, especially as CPUs and games get increasingly threaded. But I don't think that's quite what they're aiming for, this seems more of an attempt to try and close the visual gap between high end and low end.
ninedice
Dec 2 2008, 12:31 PM
so does that mean we will have to work harder to have kick-ass computers? or will everyone just be playing crysis in low settings @ 800x600?
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