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    Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU
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    Image of wetworker wetworker
    12/01/08

    In reply to Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU
    My vista 64 runs photoshop 64 like butter.

    ...smooth! :)
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    12/01/08

    @wetworker: the snozzberries taste like snozzberries.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/01/08

    In reply to Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU
    So how would it run Crysis if you SLI the CPU with the integrated graphics?
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    12/01/08

    In reply to Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU
    so will this let an older system with a graphics card that stutters on hi-def video (but can more or less play it) display that without hiccups?
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    12/01/08

    In reply to Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU
    They need to add a "Myst" mode to Crysis for Windows 7 setups without dedicated video cards.
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    Image of EVEs_Mako EVEs_Mako
    12/01/08

    In reply to Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU
    Has M$ announced a direct upgrade path from Vista to Win7?
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    Image of okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
    12/01/08

    @EVEs_Mako: I'll be buying the upgrade from Ebay for a song in 2010 since I just bought Vista-U Retail for $145 (Legit too). God bless eBay <3
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    Image of kzooguy kzooguy
    12/01/08

    In reply to Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU
    so basically, it's just a *better* software rasterizer. I feel like there must be some missing info. How could a *software* rendering system be faster than integrated graphics? The integrated graphics still has some hardware acceleration.


    Maybe they've discovered some new amazingly efficient algorithms, in which case they should open them up so they can be incorporated into GPUs. Also, I hope this means it can make better use of systems *with* GPUs as well.


    It's kind of interesting, this is sort of going in the opposite direction of all the talk we've heard about using the GPU as a more generalized processor.

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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    12/01/08

    @kzooguy: It's a more efficient way of processing DirectX through the CPU alone, to make older hardware capable of displaying all of the goodies with less noticable lag.


    OBVIOUSLY they will use GPU acceleration where applicable. In fact, Windows 7 will utilize GPU processing (a la CUDA) to help perform tasks such as background maintenance and so forth.


    The article isn't claiming the interface will look better, simply that you can HAVE the nice interface (if you choose) without needing to have a fully tricked out high end 3D gaming rig, as Vista was accused of requiring.

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    12/01/08

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    Isn't using the PC's CPU to render graphics the way computers worked circa 1998?
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    12/01/08

    In reply to Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU
    Hey Gizmodo, take down that screen shot of Vista before we all get confused, oh wait...
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    12/01/08

    @TheGeektoriousBIG: @zimzombie: Haha, OK. JEEZ.
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    Image of Senk Senk
    12/01/08

    In reply to Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU
    So, you are still using the onboard graphic card on the motherboard for the final output?
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    12/01/08

    @Senk: Yeah. But hopefully MB manufacturers would start to include stripped-down graphics hardware that did nothing more than forward the display signal to the appropriate port.
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