http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/ Engadget Comments for Windows 7 WARP system to allow for DirectX 10 CPU acceleration http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
You only NEED all that crud if you insist on making your UI spin around the screen whilst fading out.]]>Nov 28th 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
I really don't see a use in this. ]]>Nov 28th 2008 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Uh, DirectX handles 2D acceleration too, you know. It doesn't appear in the framebuffer by magic.]]>Nov 28th 2008 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
If it's too much for directfb, it's overkill.

In my book, at least.]]>Nov 28th 2008 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
Either that or their developers should release them when the top-of-the-line machines can churn out more than a measly 30-50fps.]]>Nov 29th 2008 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 29th 2008 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Dec 2nd 2008 1:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
I'm posting this from my Vista 64 machine. It has three GPUs (a 9800GX2 and an 8800GT) folding constantly...What was that you were saying about DX10 and Vista?]]>Nov 28th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
How can you bash something that you never used? Stop buying into what everyone says and try it. I bet you will find it is the best MS OS you ever used.

I just tried out Windows 7 beta build and it's also very nice :)]]>Nov 28th 2008 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
for me the verdict is still out on Vista (although I must say i have philosophical differences ) my parents got a Vista x64 laptop and well see how it is running compared to when they bought it 3 months later

I will say that I did like Vista from the presentation standpoint but when I look at it from the standpoint of can I customise it? how efficient is it? I am really disappointed.

you can get Compiz running on a 400mhz PC with a basic geforce or radeon graphics card ... and Vista Aero interface provides LESS eyecandy and LESS customization options for instance the window close animation on Vista makes my eyes refocus werid.... on Linux I just switch to a difference plugin like "burn" which i prefer

on cohesive quality and presentation vista wins (the speech recognition is amazing compared to what was in office XP) On choice and options Linux wins and I can install KDE + compiz and get a fairly cohesive environment using less than 140mb ram or so with a couple programs open (you mileale will vary based on your choices.... have seen as low as 40mb on a Debian Linux desktop and that still isn't as low as you can go) ]]>Nov 28th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
I did, and I found out XP was the best MS OSs I ever used. There were no unnecessary wizards, the control panel was nice and easy and I didn't have to "turn it back" to use it. I liked right click / properties instead of what Vista called it. I liked that not every window had a navigation bar eating up screen space. I liked the simply, non-resource hogging interface (classic, not Hasbro). I liked that the status bar was also minimal. I liked XP icons instead of the huge Vista icons. I did like the classic start menu from win2k even more than XPs start menu and even then I had to accept changing it back to the classic... having to set everything back to look like the old system I am used to isn't hard, but it's annoying as hell. I liked XP more than Vista as far as MS operating systems. Period. They changed things that didn't need changing. I switched to Ubuntu for my primary desktop and I use XP solely for gaming. My email, my browser, my office apps, all Linux. I guess I can always thank Microsoft for changing the OS so much I got tired of resetting all my preferences and now I can upgrade all my app code I want and leave my operating system interface alone.]]>Nov 28th 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
Why do you have a 9800GX2 and an 8800GT? I thought that SLI only worked on symmetrical video cards.]]>Nov 29th 2008 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/I heard that Windows Server 2008 is better. You can "hack" it into desktop mode, and it won't play your latest games, but it's fine as a desktop OS, and seemingly more stable and faster than XP. I should give it a try.]]>Nov 30th 2008 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2)

I remember booting into OS/2 Warp when I got sick of Windows minesweeper - it had a whole different set of games. Then I got Commander Keen and both operating systems became irrelevant.

Ahhh...]]>Nov 28th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WCiDM2hjtJ4]]>Nov 28th 2008 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/ah, good times.]]>Nov 28th 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 29th 2008 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 29th 2008 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/TF2 is still a DX9 game....]]>Nov 28th 2008 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
Everyone that doesnt have a comment about this article, which i just explained just shut up because you dont know what youre talking about.]]>Nov 28th 2008 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=11535768]]>Nov 28th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/if it doesn't work right. You know there will be tons of Star Trek jokes...]]>Nov 28th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/
Do you reckon they'll change the UI to Lcars?]]>Nov 28th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.istartedsomething.com/20081126/direct3d-warp10-to-enable-you-to-play-dx10-crysis-using-software-renderer-only-albeit-slowly/]]>Nov 28th 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/windows-7-warp-system-to-allow-for-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/Nov 28th 2008 6:19PM