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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Enter Graphics Market, But Already Screws Up DirectX 10

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Enter Graphics Market, But Already Screws Up DirectX 10
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:31:55 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Siggraph: Microsoft the new research powerhouse in graphics?

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| To underscore that this year is no fluke, Microsoft also said today that Weta 
| Digital Ltd. the visual effects company co-owned by Lord of the Rings and 
| King Kong director Peter Jackson, will license graphics technology developed 
| at Microsoft Research.   
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9029480&intsrc=hm_list

Microsoft shoots foot with 10.1 upgrade 

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| We suspect that the spec is likely to be ill-received. Not only does it 
| require brand new hardware, immediately creating a miniscule sub-set of DX10 
| owners, but it also requires Vista SP1, and also requires developer 
| implementation.   
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41577


Related:

Inside CNET Labs: Lamenting DirectX 10

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| We compared the same title side by side on a system running DX10 on Vista to 
| the same title on an identical system running DX9 on XP, and it's 
| difficult--sometimes impossible--to detect significant differences in how the 
| games look or perform.   
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http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9750536-1.html


Adding DX10 has "done nothing"

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| Having tested the DX10 rendering path against the DX9 version, the chaps at 
| the fantastically named Elite Bastards say that they can't "Help but feel a 
| little disappointed to see yet another game where the inclusion of DirectX 10 
| functionality has done nothing for the title either graphically or from 
| performance standpoint".    
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41043


Valve survey shows hundreds of thousands steamed up 

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| However, the survey also shows how far Microsoft et al have to go 
| - currently, DX10-capable gamers (ie those with Vista and a DX10 card) 
| make up 1.21% of the gaming population.
|         ^^^^^
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40049


DAAMIT! AMD's DX10 is not up to scratch 

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| The gap isn't much, but there's a good 10-15 per cent difference between 
| the two cards, and this is rather disappointing for a card that has 
| been repeatedly marketed as future proof.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40048


OpenGL 2.x and 3.0 APIs arrive this year 

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| Approximately three months after that, Mount Evans (OpenGL 3.0) will 
| run specifically on hardware born after November 8th, 2006. You've
| guessed it correctly, we are talking about DirectX 10-class hardware,
| bringing all the features of unified 3D architecture to the world of 
| OpenGL. Mount Evans is compatible with Longs Peak, but of course -
| you will require OpenGL 3.0 class hardware to run everything.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39846


OpenGL is far from dead 

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| Khronos took over the running of the OpenGL Architecture Review
| Board last Autumn and has managed to get chip-makers like Nvidia
| to open up DX10-esque hardware features in the OpenGL system.
| "The extension mechanism has also allowed manufacturers of high
| end cards to gracefully expose DirectX 10 features on Windows
| XP," Splash said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39830


Vista-only game cracked 

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| Falling Leaf Studios had previously reported that they were working 
| on the 'Alky Project' that would contribute 'Alky Compatibility 
| Libraries' to allow the successful running of Halo 2 and Shadowrun 
| on Windows XP machines.
|
| Looks like it was a lot simpler than that. 
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40538


Hacked DX10 for Windows appears 

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| A chap called Cody Brocious from San Diego, California, claims to
| have started to create an wrapper for Windows executables so that
| they can be ran on another operating system, with no prejudice
| about that operating system.
| 
| A year in, the Alky Project has gone live under the cover of a
| company Falling Leaf Systems. Members of its Sapling Program will
| be able to get the wrappers for DirectX10 applications and run
| them not just on DX10 hardware under Windows XP, but with some
| DX9 hardware as well. 
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39095


Valve questions Microsoft's commitment to PC gaming

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| Half-Life 2 developer Valve thinks that Microsoft's current
| "Games for Windows" marketing push is a cynical ploy to sell
| more copies of Windows Vista, rather than a genuine effort to
| invigorate the PC gaming market.
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http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/03/12/valve_questions_microsofts_commitment/

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