 | | | Re: Eovia and OpenGL | Re: Eovia and OpenGL 2005-09-13 - By Pixelwitz
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> If you feel this is outrageous like I do.... do something about
it.
> Remember Eovia (as far as I know) uses OpenGL exclusively for
their
> hardware acceleration, so this will affect you.
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> Mark
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This from a link that follows:
http://www.gamingforums.com/showthread.php?p=2193526
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Now some very important info about gaming on Vista:
- there will be NO graphical difference between an ATI or nVidia
card anymore, the only difference will be overall performance
- WGF 2.0 allows GPU processing without CPU intervention
- The Xbox 360 uses some of the technology Vista will use to handle
games on the PC
If you want to play a game, Vista will disable every component of
your computer that isn't needed by the graphical interface and
unloads the Windows Desktop (it's like running a game in MSDOS).
While it's true that the graphics technology for Vista is very
advanced, it's also true that Microsoft is trying to have a wide
array of hardware specifications. By the time Vista actually ships,
almost every new PC should be able to support the user interface and
Windows Graphics Foundation.
That doesn't mean users will need GeForce 6800 Ultras or comparable
cards. As we've seen, the user interface will support four different
qualities, the most basic should even run on most of today's
hardware. If you want the full Vista experience, you'll want a heavy
system and graphics hardware, and lots of memory.
Windows Vista will most probably be released in the second half of
2006.
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It seems to me that Microsoft has been looking for ways to kill
opengl for years. They have never really supported it. That has
always been a service that was provided by graphics card
manufacturers. My first assumption is to think of this as some sort
of sensationalism that will mean little in the end to our favorite
apps and their development, but by the looks of what I've read on
the other site it appears that MS is planning on radically changing
the way that windows handles graphics. It's hard to imagine MS
forcing too much change in "the way things are done" in the computer
industry without meeting resistance since so many developers and
graphics card manufacturerers have so much invested in their
development cycle. Whether that is a good thing or not (if it even
comes to pass), we can only wait and see.
Linux anyone?
Mark
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