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nVIDIA+to+acquire+AGEIA+Technologies

nVIDIA+to+acquire+AGEIA+TechnologiesI don't think you quite get itGood article about "what happens to AMD, NVidia, etc if this acquisition..." but, seriously, questioning the direction of physics and dependency on Microsoft to make it happen? This tells me you don;t quite the significance of physics in gaming.I'll boil...

Tags: Games, Video cards, DirectX 10, DirectX, game, card, video card, NVidia Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-05

DirectX 10 debate

Gabe Newell, president of Valve Software, believes that Microsoft made a serious mistake releasing DirectX 10 for Vista only, excluding Windows XP.  I have to agree with Newell. According to an online survey by Valve Software, only one in fifty players who access download service Steam has a DirectX...

Tags: Game, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Gamer, DirectX, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-08-29

DirectX 10 debate

DirectX 10 debateI suspect someone still using Windows 2000 ....... is not spending a lot on software upgrades and is of little concern to Microsoft to begin with.Let he who is without sin ....... cast the first stone! Your post was nothing more then a cheap shot over an...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Games, Microsoft Windows, DirectX, DirectX 10, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-08-28

New graphics chips enable next-generation games

New graphics chips enable next-generation gamesnVidia suckswhile i'm throwing gas on the fire... OSX and Linux sucks too!Let the flame wars begin!nVidia sucksCopper - Kettle - BlackNuff said!"sharp" and "smooth" aren't the right words . . ."albeit with images that are less sharp and motions less smooth than pricier cards...

Tags: Games, Video cards, chip, graphics, graphics chip, budget card, NVidia Corp., card, game, DirectX, DirectX 10, video card

Discussion threads 2007-06-29

Foxconn GeForce 8400GS DirectX 10 graphics cards for under $100

Foxconn have launched a pair of DirectX 10 compatible graphics cards which will cost under $100.The GeForce 8400GS cards come in two memory flavors - 256MB and 128MB or RAM.  The cards are based on the nVIDIA 8400GS GPU and both run at a 450-MHz core clock and an 850-MHz...

Tags: NVIDIA, Graphics, Gaming

Blog posts 2007-06-20

DirectX 10 for Windows XP?

Microsoft has always claimed that DirectX 10 is an integral part of Windows and cannot be implemented into other operating systems. However 19 year old Cody Brocious, a software reverse-engineer from San Diego, California, claims to have create a wrapper for Windows executables that make use of DirectX 10,...

Tags: Gaming

Blog posts 2007-04-23

DirectX 10, What Is All the Fuss?

DirectX is something the average gamer doesn't give much thought. Often they don't even see the word until one of their games complains it is out of date. Even then, the necessary version is usually included, so all they have to do is do a quick, painless install and they're...

Tags: DirectX, Puget Custom Computers, DirectX 10, Games, Personal Technology

White papers 2007-02-28

Gamers see gain and pain from Microsoft Vista

Gamers see gain and pain from Microsoft VistaDoes the 'wet blanket' cover MS too?"...every time a user downloads a game, Vista warns that it could be harmful."I haven't used Vista yet, but let me take a wild guess: When you download Microsoft software, it doesn't warn you.Privledge ElevationIf installing the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Games, DirectX 10, Microsoft Windows Vista, DX9, game, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-01-25

Screenshots: Checking your PC for Vista-bility

Screenshots: Checking your PC for Vista-bilityWell, that's because of the integrated video chip! :)Consumers with 512MB of RAM and an integrated video chip into motherboard might get confused by the Upgrade Advisor saying that a consumer must have 512MB of RAM even though they do have 512MB of physical RAM....

Tags: Corporate communications, Semiconductors, Video cards, PC, RAM, video chip, DirectX 10, DirectX, memory, video, motherboard

Discussion threads 2006-05-18

Additional Resources

ATI Radeon HD 5970 is world's fastest graphics card

AMD has just announced today their newest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which they are touting as "the fastest card ever created." Get ready. AMD is proclaiming many firsts with this card. Besides being the fastest, it's the one of the first...

Tags: Card, Video Card, ATI Radeon, Overclocking, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, ATI Radeon HD 5970, HD 5970, Video Cards, Hardware, Components, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-18

GeForce GT 240 - NVIDIA's sub-$100 DirectX 10.1 graphics card

Nvidia's work great with Linux distro'sNvidia's cards work great with Linux distro'syou can have compiz desktop and runany game you want.The optimization is amazing!;)Who said anything about loser OSes?This is about OSes that actually offer great gaming experiences to users, not OSes that really want to play where the big...

Tags: Games, Cyberthreats, game, NVidia Corp., operating system, DirectX, Nvidia GeForce, graphics, video card

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

GeForce GT 240 - NVIDIA's sub-$100 DirectX 10.1 graphics card

You can get a lot of power for under $100 when it comes to GPUs nowadays, but NVIDIA have just launched the GeForce GT 240 - decent performance, low power consumption and a decent price. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Video Card, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Graphics, DirectX, Video Cards, Performance Management, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-11-17

Is Nvidia planning to add X86 compatibility to its chipsets?

I hope soNVIDIA with x86-64 technology would be Next Big ThingTM, although I'd rather see a new architecture replace the aging x86. 64-bit is just a tack-on feature set of x86. I'd rather see something in line with IA64 from NVIDIA to shake up Intel. I'm sure...

Tags: Processors, Video Decoding, chipset, Intel x86, CPU, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., GPU, graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Axbreeze 1.4 (Windows)

Axbreeze is a programming library which can be used by beginners and nonprofessionals to develop 2.5D computer games with Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition and DirectX 10.1. Major features: Load images/music/sounds from resource/file/memory; play PCM, MS ADPCM, and xWMA sounds with XAudio2; animate fast sprites in 3D space; render to...

Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, Programming, Nodapro, Axbreeze, Games, Development Tools, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Best 'bang for the buck' graphics cards

No Love for NVIDIA?I'm a little disappointed you only mention one GeForce card as if they can't compete with ATI. I'm sensing either sponsorship or bias, Adrian... but if it's genuinely based on performance, I'd love to see some benchmarking and justification for the claim.They just killed off......half the cards...

Tags: Video cards, HD 4890, card, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., video card, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

XP to Vista? No, if it ain't broken, don't upgrade it

XP is not broke,Vista new improved or fixed anything.Message has been deleted.I will have to agree with Zack on this one..MS of course wants to convince you that you need an upgrade so Stevey's stock goes up. MS controls the OEM's like a over bearing husband. I will conclude that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Well XP, UAC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Google Chrome Frame boosts IE speed up to Chrome levels

If only it was for Firefox......but still astonishing results!Could this be the start of hybrid browsers? Will there be a FF version?irrelevantNobody uses IE 7 or 8 because of security.Making a bad product worse is not what windoze users need.This shows again the virtues of FOSS vs proprietary software.Corporate IT...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome Frame, Google Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Zune HD: No YouTube in the browser for you

patheticI don't care much about youtube (I much prefer TED conference with top minds/scientists to that popular crap :P) but being a social media users (msn, FB and the like) I know for a fact that many people spend lots of time on this site and it is now imperative...

Tags: Team management, Turnabout, Web browser, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Details on HP's Ion-powered netbook, Windows XP not dead yet

Almost nine months to the day after Nvidia announced its Ion Platform, the first real netbook to make use of the technology has finally shipped. HP announced the Mini 311, an 11.6-inch netbook that pairs Intel's Atom processor with Ion, which is based on the GeForce 9400M GPU. Ion should...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows XP, NVidia Corp., Netbook, HP Mini 311, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-09-15

AMD Tigris, Congo mobile platforms target multimedia, battery life

AMD on Thursday announced its 'Tigris' laptop platform, intended for mainstream applications and offering full 1080p, DirectX 10.1 support and offloading video encoding to the Radeon HD 4200 GPU. With new 45nm dual-core Caspian processors (speeds up to 2.6GHz), AMD manages a 42 percent improvement in...

Tags: Multimedia, Mobile, Battery, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Engineering, Microsoft Windows 7, Processors, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-10