Forget about DirectX 10 - Introducing DirectX 10.1 Preview for Windows Vista SP1
section: microsoft, for your questions: KezNews forum, 30.7.2007
Forget about Windows Vista's DirectX 10, Microsoft is delivering a preview of DirectX 10.1 associated with the first service pack for the operating system. The Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview is an integer part of the August 2007, DirectX Software Development Kit, and is designed to provide the evolution of the current Direct3D 10.0.
Version 10 of DirectX, available exclusively via Windows Vista, includes Direct3D. In this context, Microsoft revealed that the Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview is connected with Vista SP1, but the company failed to provide a timetable for the
availability of the service pack.
"The Microsoft Direct3D device driver interface (DDI) is a graphics interface that allows vendors to provide hardware acceleration for Direct3D. The interface is flexible, allowing vendors to provide Direct3D acceleration according to hardware capabilities. Driver writers implement the Direct3D DDI as an integral part of the display driver," Microsoft described.
"Direct3D 10.1 is an incremental, side-by-side update to Direct3D 10.0 that provides a series of new rendering features that will be available in an upcoming generation of graphics hardware. TextureCube Arrays which are dynamically indexable in shader code. An updated shader model (shader model 4.1). The ability to select the MSAA sample pattern for a resource from a palette of patterns, and retrieve the corresponding sample positions. The ability to render to block-compressed textures. More flexibility with respect to copying of resources. Support for blending on all unorm and snorm formats," reads Microsoft's description of the Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview.
The Redmond company has repeatedly denied speculations that it will backport DirectX 10 to Windows XP, and additional rumors of third-parties delivering Vista's graphics technology to older versions of Windows, or in the context of DirectX 9 and lower hardware. While Windows Vista is closing in on its six months of availability on the market, Microsoft estimates that in excess of 10 million gamers have upgraded to Windows Vista just to reek in the benefits of DirectX 10. The latest statistics from Redmond reveal that Vista sold over 60 million licenses from January 30.
Still, the Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview will only come in handy after the re-release of Vista SP1. Currently, Microsoft admitted that a private beta of the service pack is under way, and that a public beta will follow at an unspecified date later this year. "This tech preview provides an early look at these features and the handful of new APIs that support them. The August 2007 Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview requires the Windows Vista SP1 Beta which will be available to MSDN subscribers once it is publicly released," Microsoft added.
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Comments(13)
screw ms!!! nobody should move to vista, why not force them to move dx10 to xp, where it
belongs!!!
i love vista so far. its been great. ie 7 with protected mode, uac, windows defender, and
much more. it beats xp hands down.
let me quote this:
..."i love vista so far. its been great. ie 7 with
protected mode"...
that's the slowest browser out there and not very
customizable without some extra $$$
..." uac"...
annoying pop ups
that microsoft pretends to sell as a security feature.
..."windows
defender"...
it is probably the most useless antispyware application ever. as
a side note let me point out that sometimes microsoft cataloged windows defender as an
antivirus... roflmao... today if you visit microsoft's website and read the thread named
"what is windows defender" you will get even more confused... they don't even specify
what it is... probably not even microsoft knows what windows defender is... nasty huh? :p
..."and much more. it beats xp hands down"... oh yeah! "and much more" is
a nice application i use for my daily duties, it is extremely useful!... common!! lol...
and beating xp's performance and stability will take another 7 years to microsoft unless
you buy the buggy windows 7 before they get vista to work properly.
check how many
updates you have already installed in your vista os... that's around 2 service packs.
isn't it?
they never finished coding vista and they are already whispering
about windows 7 in your hears!
i hope you keep your job for that long so you can buy
another buggy release...
peace
good one yoni lol you said it well! and you are right!
what happened to dx10 in the first place! shouldnt a game have been released before they
start pushing us into this new stuff! this is an outrage!!!
vista=windows me
they say 10.1 is for upcoming hardware that supports sm 4.1 bla bla
so now we
even make incremental updates to dx that require new hardware no matter that we just
bought dx 10 hardware for $$$$$$$ phucking lot money?
at least they didnt
change hardware only supported thing in previous dx generations if they just did a
incremental update. this should be
called dx11 and not 10 phuktards.
i'm using windows vista and i'm sick on xp users. f*** y** and your dx 9.
pleaseeee people lets not pretend like vista in the best thing ever lol!!!! it's ms
worst nightmare that thing was released to early and stupid morons moved to it hahaha!!!!
i stik wit xp
there is nothing good in vista except aero and hardware manager... the rest is a piece
of sh**. it takes 700 or 800 mo of ram for nothing, and is way slower than xp, plus it is
very expensive, limited when you buy a home edition, ultimate for 700 euro :o just because
of extras , microsoft is just kidding with us, we are their buyer puppets, what people
thinks isnt important, it is money...
just shut up if you don't like vista then you don't have to blabber about it. it runs
perfectly stable and i never got a bsod in my life from vista. ie7 does not have to be
used, neither does windows defender. look at xp: does it even have a defender at all?
it's also possible to turn uac off for those that are too ignorant. just go to
control panel dumbasses
mac sucs cock
windows xp still rocks...
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SCREW MS!!!
By Oz on 31.07.2007 - 01:07