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Microsoft has already indicated through the voice of Anantha Kancherla, manager of Windows desktop and graphics technologies, that DirectX 11 would be at the vanguard of the upcoming general purpose graphics processing (GPGPU) revolution. However, the real details have only been shared with developers and not the gen... |
7 August 2008
13:12 GMT |
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Microsoft has just started talking about the successor of DirectX 10 and is, of course, far from having revealed all the details. In fact, the Redmond company has some surprises cooking that it failed to bring to the table in its discussion with the developing community at GameFest 2008. With the evolution towards Wi... |
29 July 2008
11:58 GMT |
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Two security bulletins, from December 2007 and from June 2008 respectively, affecting the DirectX components of a wide range of Windows operating systems including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, have been updated. According to Microsoft, the modifications were designed to simply add Direc... |
17 July 2008
11:52 GMT |
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Forget about DirectX 10 and DirectX 10.1, the future of Microsoft's graphics platform for the Windows operating system is DirectX 11. The Redmond giant has certainly kept quiet on DirectX 11, just as it has gagged all information on the next iteration of Windows, but details do slip through its fingers. And whil... |
10 June 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Microsoft readies patches for critical vulnerabilities affecting its Windows client and server operating systems, as well as components that ship by default with the platform. The Redmond company is wrapping up no less than seven security bulletins for an unspecified number of vulnerabilities impacting even Windows V... |
6 June 2008
07:33 GMT |
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Just as the game went live and Funcom released data showing that the Collector's Edition of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures was sold out, it seems that there's some bad news in store for those gamers who wanted to experience the MMO in full DirectX 10 glory on their tricked out Vista systems. The develope... |
20 May 2008
09:10 GMT |
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No matter what fanboys and console manufacturers keep saying, the graphics on the consoles are, were and will always be worse than the graphics on PCs and the reasons are various (progress would be just one of them). However, it seems that every now and then, a developer plans to create a game like never before and i... |
20 May 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Asustek has just introduced its MA3850M graphics card offering, world's first single-chip unit of its kind, equipped with a stand-alone color processor. Based on a mobile version of ATI's Radeon HD 3850 graphics core, the new card builds on the performance of a generic graphics card but cuts down on energy ... |
7 May 2008
10:10 GMT |
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Intel has announced the availability of a new Windows Vista driver for its chipsets with integrated drivers. According to the company, the new driver is WHQL-certified and unleashes the power of Microsoft's DirectX 10 for both multimedia and gaming applications. The DirectX technology is a suite of application p... |
5 May 2008
09:33 GMT |
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Windows 7 Milestone 1 (M1) Ultimate Edition Build 6.1.6519.1 might not show it yet, but it is evolving to become the next generation gaming platform from Microsoft. Windows Vista brought to the table the jump from DirectX 9.x to DirectX 10, and Vista Service Pack 1 delivered the first update to the graphics infrastru... |
18 February 2008
12:26 GMT |
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As you undoubtedly know by now, Windows Vista brought to the table DirectX 10. Microsoft failed to make DirectX 10 available for Windows XP, arguing that it would have to introduce extensive changes to the core of the operating system, in order to accommodate the new graphics technology. In this context, Vista became... |
8 January 2008
07:42 GMT |
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DirectX 10, the graphics technology exclusive to Windows Vista, has been applauded as an apex of the evolution for Windows' DirectX suite of multimedia application programming interfaces, but a critical security vulnerability in the APIs allows a potential attacker to completely take over the computer. Tomorrow,... |
10 December 2007
06:45 GMT |
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At this point in time, Microsoft is preparing DirectX 10.1 as an integer part of the evolution from Windows Vista to Windows Vista Service Pack 1. In this sense, as DirectX 10 was introduced concomitantly with Vista at the end of 2006 and early 2007, in concordance with the operating system's business and consu... |
5 December 2007
11:27 GMT |
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Microsoft has never looked back on its decision to make DirectX 10 available exclusively in Windows Vista. Never for a moment. The Redmond company only shrugged off requests to backport DirectX 10 to Windows XP, and faced a consistent wave of criticism, virtually crucifying it because of the intimate connection betwe... |
21 November 2007
11:07 GMT |
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Fresh gaming meat comes to Windows Vista and to DirectX 10 via Games for Windows. Microsoft has announced the availability of two new titles, designed for its Windows client. "Crysis" and "Kane & Lynch: Dead Men" have both received the Games for Windows brand, tying the two games from Partners and Eidos, with the Win... |
20 November 2007
10:40 GMT |
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With the release of the first service pack for Windows Vista, Microsoft is cooking a move similar with the original launch of the platform. And as DirectX 10 was exclusive to Windows Vista, so will DirectX 10.1 be exclusive to Windows Vista Service Pack 1. But the gaming community and industry have failed to see eye ... |
9 November 2007
11:46 GMT |
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Halo 3 gets ready to surrender its "Most Wanted FPS of the Year" award to Crysis, as Crytek's title has just gone gold. We've offered you the demo this weekend for download right HERE, but I bet you have already finished it by now. We've shown you the list of specs, be they minimum or recommended but n... |
30 October 2007
10:31 GMT |
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As Windows Vista brought to the table the exclusive DirectX 10, the first service pack for the operating system will evolve Microsoft's graphics technology to version 10.1. DirectX 10.1 is already available to over 12,000 testers via the first beta of Vista Service Pack 1, concomitantly with the official release... |
30 October 2007
07:47 GMT |
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As Advanced Micro Devices announced the limited availability of the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro graphics processing units that are offering comparable levels of gaming performance with the 2900 XT model while keeping the price tag more affordable, a number of manufacturing companies that are active in the graphics cards m... |
21 September 2007
03:13 GMT |
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Sex is a universal marketing tool. It will successfully sell games and it will prove equally capable to convert a potential Windows customer into a buyer. Of course that any game reference will not be complete without a connection to the world's most popular gaming platform, the Windows operating system. In the ... |
7 September 2007
14:36 GMT |
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Moving from Windows XP to Windows Vista, Microsoft has chosen an interesting tactic in terms of the graphics technology built into the operating system. It evolved DirectX 9.x to DirectX 10, but made accessing the new graphics technology exclusive to Vista. The Redmond company chose to ignore over 80% of the operatin... |
6 September 2007
13:33 GMT |
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Most people have considered at least once or twice the reasons to keep using Vista after installing the free Betas released by Microsoft before the official launch or after buying their own copy of the OS and installing it on their newly upgraded and Vista compatible PC.If you're in the first category you might ... |
31 August 2007
16:30 GMT |
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DirectX 10 is the graphics technology Microsoft introduced concomitantly with its latest operating system Windows Vista. But the Redmond company is also evolving DirectX and it is on the verge of introducing the next version, planned to be included into the fabric of the first service pack for Vista. Still, while Mic... |
27 August 2007
12:37 GMT |
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Windows Vista exclusive DirectX 10 is simply bad for business. With the introduction of Windows Vista, Microsoft also evolved the DirectX graphics technology from version 9.x to 10.0. However, in the process, the Redmond company revealed that DirectX 10 would be made available exclusively on its latest Windows operat... |
27 August 2007
09:10 GMT |
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Microsoft made its very own DirectX 10 vs. DirectX 9.0b. Now, if the Redmond company's comparison won't convince you to switch to Vista, nothing will. DirectX 10 is the next generation graphics technology integrated exclusively into Windows Vista. In fact, Microsoft has been using DirectX 10 as both a lever... |
23 August 2007
13:40 GMT |
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SIGGRAPH 2007 is the stage where Microsoft dropped the bomb informing that the currently available DirectX 10 hardware will not support the upcoming DirectX 10.1. Microsoft has yet to confirm this piece of information through channels that are not connected with the Association for Computing Machinery's 34th ann... |
10 August 2007
11:01 GMT |
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How expensive is it to be a PC gamer? Well, that depends on your particular favorite game genre and of course on how often you replace or upgrade your hardware. Roy Taylor, vice president of content relation for Nvidia says as cited by Ars Technica, that most game publishers feel that hardware pricing is way too high... |
19 July 2007
04:09 GMT |
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Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system is the ultimate gaming platform. The Redmond company revealed that, in its perspective, the operating system is designed from the ground up for gaming. "We've built Windows Vista from the ground-up with gaming in mind. We wanted to create a platform that si... |
11 July 2007
10:29 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to say a firm no to backporting DirectX 10 to Windows XP. Furthermore, the Redmond company is also denying claims from third parties that Windows Vista's DirectX 10 will be hacked and transitioned to Windows XP. According to Microsoft, DirectX 10 is connected with the new overhauled graphics ... |
29 June 2007
13:55 GMT |
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The Intel G35 Express Chipsets, a version of the Intel 3 Series Chipsets with integrated graphics will not bring to the table support for Microsoft's DirectX 10, the next-generation graphics technology in Windows Vista. This despite the fact that Intel revealed at the beginning of June 2007, at the Computex comp... |
27 June 2007
12:16 GMT |
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If you're one of those people who bought Vista in the first 24 hours from the launch, you're probably running a very fast system equipped with SLI or Crossfire support. In this case, you probably found out pretty fast that Nvidia didn't offer SLI support for the new OS produced by Microsoft.Sad one, is... |
19 June 2007
02:59 GMT |
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In a recent press release Nvidia has announced the launch of the fastest Nvidia 8-series GPU, the 8700M GT. Pretty straightforward now, isn't? Well, perhaps it is but the chipset itself is worth all the attention in the world since if we were to speak in pure numbers it would probably produce a higher performanc... |
15 June 2007
02:51 GMT |
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Rumors, rumors. What would we do without them? For instance how could we find out if INTEL is indeed planning to release separate video cards for SOHO use at the beginning of 2008 if it weren't for rumors? Evidently, in order to spread them you generally need mass coverage. And that's where an event such as... |
8 June 2007
12:51 GMT |
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Company of Heroes is a WWII based RTS game coming from Relic Entertainment, that brings back to life the journey of the Able Company and its brave men, as they fight across Europe in the worst conflagration in history.The video we have provided HERE for you shows slight, but significant differences between identical ... |
1 June 2007
04:30 GMT |
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Just in case you didn't get the chance to play the Xbox 360 version of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, Softpedia is offering you the chance to download and play the demo right now. For the DirectX 9 version, click HERE and if you want a more compelling experience, download the DirectX 10 version HERE.Just found ... |
16 May 2007
08:13 GMT |
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DirectX 10 is the latest version of the DirectX suite of multimedia application programming interfaces that Microsoft has built exclusively into its latest operating system, Windows Vista. Gaming enthusiasts will only be able to access DirectX 10 via a combination of one of the latest video cards and one of the editi... |
25 April 2007
08:29 GMT |
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It seems NVIDIA has the wrong people working for the PR department. That is because the information about "undisclosed" products keeps appearing everywhere on the Internet. First there was the case of NVIDIA's 8800Ultra which made its way onto Dell's website, and then there is talk of another video card, th... |
20 April 2007
09:02 GMT |
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With all the fuss of ATI's upcoming series of video cards and all, people have begun turning their attention away from NVIDIA, but these guys don't give up that easy. In order to have something powerful that could still draw the public attention away from ATI, NVIDIA has planned on releasing a new version o... |
16 April 2007
04:37 GMT |
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If you're a WW II fan, then you surely haven't missed the first installment of Company of Heroes, developed by Canadian-based real-time-strategy developer, Relic Entertainment. The game was set during World War II where the player follows an U.S. military unit, known as Able Company, as they fight their way... |
6 April 2007
09:37 GMT |
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