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dattimr   10-31-2008 at 02:58:32 AM

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39963/139/

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An interesting detail about Microsoft Aero Glass GUI surfaced on the istartedsomething blog. Microsoft said that the Windows 7 Desktop Windows Manager will support the Direct3D 10.1 API. The company claims that this transition will enable it to reduce the graphics memory footprint by about 50%.

Industry sources who requested to remain anonymous in this article confirmed to TG Daily that the transition in fact is being made. While the main advantage is memory savings, we were told that DX10.1 should deliver some speed improvements as well.



http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2896
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php? [...] 3&Itemid=1
http://www.legitreviews.com/news/5302/

Also, there's something interesting at: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39910/128/

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Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D (Direct3D-based GPU acceleration of Win32 applications).

Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware (talks about DirectX to enable Win32 apps to “harness” the horsepower graphics hardware. The track will also discuss how applications can “display graphics content on different generations of graphics hardware, across multiple displays and on a remote desktop”.)



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krazyk12   10-31-2008 at 03:21:38 AM
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the lower mem usage would be nice, although it doesnt bother me either way.

and as for the speed increase, idk.. they talking about menus popping up and stuff im guessing. theres not much room for improvement there.


but if they want to, by all means go ahead. im sure it wont be a huge loss to people with only dx10 cards

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eklipz330   10-31-2008 at 03:36:51 AM
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well, technology is moving quickly, it would be dumb of them to hold back on something they could use... yes the less resources the better, but with so much resource now... i don't see why 8gb dram can't be the standard in a year

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Ares_   10-31-2008 at 03:45:21 AM
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So now it will use 50 mb of video ram while idling instead of 100 (or however much it is). Ya know, any modern video card can handle Areo, why do you need reduction in resources? Instead i would like to see a more module OS instead of optimizing the graphics code.

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roadrunner197069   10-31-2008 at 03:50:55 AM
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I think there is hope for Windows 7. I been running it "pre Beta" for 2 days, and it is definately interesting. It runs faster on my laptop the Vista did by atleast 30%, but who knows what the final version will be like.

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englandr753   10-31-2008 at 04:09:10 AM
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I understand that Windows 7 is Vista with upgrades making it what Vista should have been at its release time. This seems like a legal form of highway robbery to me. And I feel like a fresh F'd fox in a forest fire being a customer that paid for Vista in is premature state.

Gotta love the free market in those circumstances...

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roadrunner197069   10-31-2008 at 04:29:39 AM
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It is basically Vista with better resource management and a few prettier features. Nothing a good old service pack couldnt have done.

But then again, there is no money to be made from service packs.

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googledegook   10-31-2008 at 04:38:34 AM
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windows 7 is basically Vista with SP2. microsoft learnt their lesson with win XP service pack 2. they realised they could have marketed it as a new OS and made more money instead of a free service pack.

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murdoc   10-31-2008 at 05:52:27 AM
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I guess so, but most people didn't get vista anyways so they didn't profit that much. It's just that when you buy laptops and Dell/HP systems that they forcefully deployed Vista into. In fact, that's the only way they're making money. They tried hard to kill XP so people will "feel the need" to change to vista but obviously most of us are still on XP (although there is an audience out there who wanted full DX10 performance from their cards prematurely). I think with Windows 7, the real DX10 games will start flowing in at a more rapid rate.


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