Geekologist - Your Technology Forecast! » acceleration http://geekologist.net Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:26:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Windows 7 WARP to allow DirectX 10 CPU acceleration http://geekologist.net/2009/01/windows-7-warp-to-allow-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/ http://geekologist.net/2009/01/windows-7-warp-to-allow-directx-10-cpu-acceleration/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:12:40 +0000 whoknew http://geekologist.net/?p=555
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    • ]]>     Do you have a computer with Windows Vista installed? Does that windows vista system not have the greatest graphics card onboard? Well Windows has finally made a huge improvement to the graphics subsystem to help you out. Microsoft is aiming to help GPU-less folks by allowing a plain old CPU to act as a graphics hardware accelerator. This entire system is designed to run on a processor as little as 800Mhz but a dual-core or higher CPU is recommended. In private benchmark testings using intel integrated graphics and an i7 processor the team was able to get a whopping 7.6 FPS at 800×600. This is about a 1.5 FPS improvement over the integrated graphics alone. Although the WARP (or Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform) was designed to help out people without GPU’s to improve the Aero experience, I am really excited to see how this technology evolves, and what it means in terms of a more pleasing experience in Windows 7.

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