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save_the_P4   01-31-2007 at 10:37:53 AM

"There are some programs that showed deeply disappointing performance. Unreal Tournament 2004 and the professional graphics benchmarking suite SPECviewperf 9.03 suffered heavily from the lack of support for the OpenGL graphics library under Windows Vista. This is something we expected, and we clearly advise against replacing Windows XP with Windows Vista if you need to run professional graphics applications."

So, if professional applications suffer of OpenGL lach of support for Vista, why is the next Centrino Pro platform (Santa Rosa) going to be equipped with Robson technology, which takes benefit of the superfetch feature only available for Vista??

Does that mean that Santa Rosa based laptops will run Windows XP to run professional applications propperly??

Or is that OpenGL support problem something temporaly?

I don't know, I'm confused... the idea of buying a high end laptop with an OS that is already being replaced seems odd. Unless they offer a free upgrade to Vista when SP1 is released.

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save_the_P4   01-31-2007 at 01:18:59 PM
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Hi again, I've found some info from a user trying to run Maya (and other opengl applications) in windows vista, it's interesting for those who work with graphic and 3d applications... here's the link.

Maya on Vista http://forums.cgsociety.org/showth [...] ge=1&pp=15

Autocad 2005 and Windows Vista
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thr [...] dID=532684

By the way, the reason I'm posting this subject is because I'm waiting for the centrino pro release to buy a laptop, and was also thinking of an upgrade to vista.

Cheers

Edit: links added

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MxM   01-31-2007 at 05:54:57 PM
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Or is that OpenGL support problem something temporaly?



My guess is that yes. Even DX10 drivers are not good right now. I think it is work for the video card manufacturers. They have to wright optimized drivers for Vista, DX10 and OpenGL.

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