Como usted sabe indudablemente ahora, Windows Vista trajo a la tabla DirectX 10. Microsoft no pudo hacer DirectX 10 disponible para Windows XP, discutiendo que tendría que introducir cambios extensos a la base del sistema operativo, para acomodar la nueva tecnología de los gráficos. En este contexto, Vista se convirtió en el recipiente para DirectX 10, porque a pesar de varias promesas de tercero-partidos artificial al backport DirectX 10 para Windows XP, el cliente más último de Windows sigue siendo la manera única de tener acceso al sobreconjunto de DirectX 9.x.

Microsoft touted un aumento sano en calidad del juego y de las multimedias con DirectX 10 como pieza de número entero de la arquitectura de Vista, pero con la mayoría extensa de usuarios todavía que funcionan Windows XP, el contenido digital se centra en gran parte en el precursor de Vista. La compañía de Redmond estaba de hecho
criticado por los productores del contenido y los usuarios finales para que su decisión haga la exclusiva de DirectX 10 Vista, pero la presa del fuego no pudo disuadir Microsoft sus pistas. Por otra parte, en el primer trimestre de este año, Windows Vista SP1 entregará DirectX 10.1. (más…)

¿Usted sabía que DirectX 10 está solamente para Windows Vista? Tan a menos que usted sea feliz con las ventanas XP usando DirectX 9, el su probablemente ir a desear conseguir una tarjeta video comprable decente.

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Michael Wolf over on the Gamerscore Blog announced on Wednesday two new Games for Windows Live titles hitting store shelves this week: Crysis and Kane & Lynch: Dead Men . Crysis received a score of 98 out of 100 by PC Gamer and utilizes Windows Vista’s Read More……(read more)

Michael Wolf over on the Gamerscore Blog announced on Wednesday two new Games for Windows Live titles hitting store shelves this week: Crysis and Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. Crysis received a score of 98 out of 100 by PC Gamer and utilizes Windows Vista’s DirectX 10 offering incredible graphics. And Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a Games for Windows - LIVE title supporting online game play for up to 8 players with free List Play for Silver users and, for Gold members, enhanced matchmaking and online multiplayer achievements.

Gears of War was also released as a Games for Windows - LIVE title earlier this month. The Games for Windows - LIVE update I posted about in October was released as well. Michael Wolf has some information on the update including some specifics about getting the update installed with Gears of War. I was able to install the Games for Windows - LIVE update flawlessly through Shadowrun. You can also download it and install it separately.

Remember, games under the Games for Windows brand offer easy installation, widescreen capability, native 64-bit support, and take advantage

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Vista Compatibility tool
Microsoft has launched the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool.
You can download the version 2.0 Beta version now. The assessment tool allows you to see how much effort…

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Most people have considered at least once or twice the reasons to keep using Vista after installing the free Betas released by Microsoft before the official launch or after buying their own copy of the OS and installing it on their newly upgraded and Vista compatible PC.

If you’re in the first category you might find most of the arguments I’m going to list here in favor of making use of Vista instead of other OSs mostly because you haven’t gone radical about it and went to the store to buy yourself new Vista ready hardware. The cause of this is not the object of my article therefore I’m not going to write about it (although I suppose the money basis would be a definite turn off it has also been my case).

If you’re one of those that used Vista since the early released Betas and are still using it with the appropriate hardware then this article might give some reasons you haven’t been aware of to stick to it and not give it up for anything else, be it Microsoft material or open source. (more…)

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