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Intel Cedar Trail Atom Won't Receive 64-bit or DirectX 10.1 Graphics Driver

With the launch of the Cedarview architecture Intel was expected to bring DirectX 10.1 support to its Atom CPU series, but recent reports suggest this is no longer the case as the chip maker has decided to re-focus its driver development efforts on Windows 8. Intel started shipping the Atom Cedarview netbook and net...

8 November 2011
02:29 GMT

Intel Atom Cedarview CPUs Won't Support DirectX 10 After All

DirectX 10.1 support was one the major features Intel promised to deliver with the introduction of its new Cedarview Atom architecture, but recent reports suggest the chip maker wasn't able to keep up to its word as the Cedar Trail platform is limited at offering just DX 9 graphics.Intel launched the Atom Cedarv...

30 September 2011
16:01 GMT

Fix Windows 7 RTM DirectX 10.1 Incorrect Reports

A default diagnostics tool included in Windows 7 can incorrectly report DirectX 11 devices as DirectX 10.1, Microsoft has revealed. At fault is the DirectX Diagnostics Tool, the Redmond company explains. The Erroneous reporting of DirectX 11 devices as DirectX 10.1 devices is a problem that also affects Windows Serve...

25 November 2009
11:03 GMT

S3 Graphics Rolls Out the DirectX 10.1-Ready Chrome 5400E Embedded GPU

The market for computer graphics is currently dominated by three leading companies, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel. While the first two compete in the desktop GPU segment, all three can provide integrated graphics solutions. However, there are other players in this growing market, such as S3 Graphics, a company that has annou...

27 October 2009
09:45 GMT

MSI Unveils the New 785G-Series Motherboards

Taiwan-based MSI, one of the world's leading vendors of computer platforms, has recently announced its new line of AMD-based motherboards, coming to provide its customers with support for the newly launched AMD 785G integrated graphics chipset. The company's new lineup has been designed to provide users wit...

5 August 2009
05:42 GMT

AMD's 785G Is Officially Here

Following a streak of leaked details that have recently surfaced on the Internet, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has just announced the official launch of its latest desktop chipset, the much-anticipated 785G, coming to provide mainstream users with a series of new features. Building on the chip m...

4 August 2009
06:47 GMT

NVIDIA's Latest G200M GPUs Are 40nm, Have DirectX 10.1 Support

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA continues to expand its line of notebook graphics chips with the introduction of a series of 5 new GPUs, designed to take advantage of the company's latest GT200 architecture. The innovation behind the new graphics processing units is that NVIDIA has now reached the 40nm manu...

15 June 2009
11:14 GMT

SAPPHIRE Intros Water Cooled HD 4870 X2

SAPPHIRE Technology announced a few days ago the introduction of a new graphics card, the SAPPHIRE ATOMIC HD 4870 X2. The solution, based on AMD's HD 4870 X2 GPU, comes as an exclusive dual GPU card, which is water cooled. The new SAPPHIRE ATOMIC HD 4870 X2 packs on a single PCI-Express card two complete HD 4870...

15 December 2008
02:43 GMT

AMD Announces Expanded DirectX 10.1 Support

AMD's graphics division, ATI, announced a few days ago expanded support for DirectX 10.1 from a number of developers, demonstrating growing momentum for the most advanced Microsoft graphics API Layer to date. At the same time, GSC Game World released a DirectX 10.1 patch for their newest game title, S.T.A.L.K.E....

2 December 2008
03:57 GMT

S3 Graphics Intros Chrome 500 Series Graphics Card

S3 Graphics has just introduced its next-generation of Chrome 500 graphics processors, coming to build on the company's successful product family that delivers one of the most power-efficient GPU architectures on the market. The new series of discrete graphics solutions comes with a PCI Express 2.0 interface, ju...

20 November 2008
09:42 GMT

Even with DirectX 11 on the Horizon, the Focus Is on DirectX 10.1

When the latest Windows client hit the shelves at the end of January 2007, Microsoft was under a barrage of criticism from the community of developers and gamers for its decision to make DirectX 10 Vista-exclusive, and not to backport the graphics technology for Windows XP, stuck with DX 9.0x. With the advent of Wind...

26 August 2008
08:03 GMT

AMD and Game Devs Work to Enable DirectX 10.1 Gaming

One of ATI's main betting cards against NVIDIA's GeForce graphics cards is the DirectX 10.1 support for the company's latest Radeon graphics cards. Unfortunately, due to the lack of DirectX 10.1-enabled gaming applications, AMD's strategy can't be exploited to its full potential. However, the...

25 August 2008
11:11 GMT

August 2008 DirectX 9.0 and 10.1 Downloads for Vista SP1 and XP SP3

August 2008 has been synonymous with three separate releases of DirectX for a variety of Windows operating systems. The DirectX refreshes are tailored to Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1, but also to Windows Server 2003. Microsoft made available for download upda...

19 August 2008
12:56 GMT

GTX 280/260 Prices Drop, but NVIDIA Preps New GeForce Cards

There is no doubt that NVIDIA hasnt had such a tough week in quite a long time. The Santa-Clara based graphics manufacturer has seen its stocks go down significantly after having announced that some of its previous-generation laptop GPUs had been reported faulty. But all this will most probably not affect NVIDIA tha...

4 July 2008
04:02 GMT

The First Taste of DirectX 11 Soon - Version 11 Is Based on DirectX 10

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

New DirectX 9.0 and DirectX 10.1 Releases for XP SP3 and Vista SP1

New DirectX releases are available for download, tailored to the latest versions of the Windows server and client operating systems including Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Microsoft is continually hammering away at the graphics technology included in its platforms, and the June 2008 rele...

9 June 2008
03:15 GMT

XP SP3 Brings Nothing New for Gaming

Windows XP Service Pack 3 is a case of "much ado about nothing" when it comes down to gaming. SP3 was released to manufacturing on April 21, 2008, almost two months after the RTM date of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. But if Vista SP1 does bring to the table advances that will affect the gaming experience of end user...

29 April 2008
10:47 GMT

The Evolving DirectX 10.1 in Vista SP1 RTM Plus 10.1 Capable Hardware

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 brings to the table an evolution focused on softening the rough edges of the RTM version of the operating system, but at the same time introduces new aspects into the fabric of the Windows client. Case in point: DirectX 10.1. Moving from version 10 in Vista RTM to 10.1 in Vista SP1, Direc...

14 April 2008
07:19 GMT

Asustek Unveils New Graphics Cards From AMD and Nvidia

Asustek has unveiled a new series of graphics cards based on both AMD and Nvidia graphics processing units. The three new additions to Asustek's graphics cards portfolio are the EN9800GTX/HTDP/512M, EAH3850X2/HTDI/1G and the EAH3650 SILENT/HTDI/1G models.The EN9800GTX graphics offering is based on Nvidia's ...

9 April 2008
05:30 GMT

Nvidia Is Secretly Working on a New Family of Graphics Cards

Nvidia has unveiled its highest-end GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards earlier in March, and rumors of a new breed of graphics cards already started to kick in. The new cards are codenamed GT200 and will be commercially known as the 9900GX2.According to a some industry sources quoted by the tech site Expreview, the new ...

1 April 2008
06:48 GMT

S3 Graphics Starts Shipping Chrome 430 GT in the U.S.

Graphics specialist S3 Graphics has just announced the introduction of its Chrome 430 GT graphics card in the US market. Currently available only in the US, the new graphics offering from S3 comes with PCI-Express 2.0 connectivity and full support for Microsoft's DirectX 10.1 technology.S3's Chrome 430 GT o...

20 March 2008
12:32 GMT

New Hardware for Vista SP1 (DirectX 10.1) - XP SP3 Too?

Microsoft is currently in the final stages of cooking both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. In December 2007, the first public builds of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, namely the Release Candidates became available for download. In the second week in January, the Redmond company dropped a refresh fo...

15 January 2008
09:43 GMT

2008 Gaming = Vista SP1 and DirectX 10.1

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

Nvidia to Show GeForce 9600 GT Details

Nvidia will officially release their new mid-range graphics processor, codenamed the D9M, as the GeForce 9600 GT. The company has issued the technical specifications for the chip, and, according to these, the new 9600GT will come with a 650 MHz core clock and a 1625 MHz unified shader clock.The main difference betwe...

4 January 2008
04:00 GMT

Is DirectX 10.1 in Vista SP1 the Last of Its Kind? DirectX 11 Next?

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

Vista's DirectX 10 Offers Your Gameplay Nothing, and It Will Do So for Years to Come

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

DirectX 10.1 in Vista SP1 = Almost Nothing at All

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

DirectX 10.1 in Windows Vista SP1 - The Evolution

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

AMD Prepares DirectX 10.1 Compliant Cheap Graphics Cards

While the new Microsoft graphics API, DirectX 10.1, created a lot of unhappiness among gamers that recently purchased high level graphics cards, for computer hardware manufacturers like Nvidia and AMD's graphics division the new DirectX versions means an opportunity to tout their technologies and launch a new li...

10 September 2007
09:00 GMT

DirectX the Future: DirectX 10.1 in Windows Vista SP1

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

Microsoft: DirectX 10 Hardware WILL Support DirectX 10.1

Following reports that the upcoming DirectX 10.1 update will be incompatible with existing DirectX 10 hardware, Sam Glassenberg, Lead Program Manager on the Microsoft DirectX Team came out and stated the contrary. Glassenberg revealed that the existing DirectX 10 hardware supporting the Windows Vista operating system...

15 August 2007
11:42 GMT

Microsoft Drops the Bomb: DirectX 10 Hardware Won't Support DirectX 10.1

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

DirectX 10.1 in Windows Vista SP1 Coming Soon

Microsoft offered official confirmation that DirectX 10.1 in Windows Vista SP1 can be expected in the immediate future. The SIGGRAPH 2007 conference is the stage where Microsoft is presenting an introduction to Direct3D 10, but also the future of this application programming interface. Direct3D 10 is an integer part ...

6 August 2007
12:14 GMT

AMD Announces the First Mobile DirectX 10.1 GPUs

Yep, you've heard it right. Not only does AMD have plans to further improve the manufacturing process of the R600 GPU but they are also planning to launch an entire new line of chips based on 55nm manufacturing process. That might take a long time since currently all R600 chips are manufactured using 80nm transi...

5 June 2007
05:36 GMT


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