Como você sabe indubitàvelmente perto agora, Windows Vista trouxe à tabela DirectX 10. Microsoft não fêz DirectX 10 disponível para Windows XP, discutindo que teria que introduzir mudanças extensivas ao núcleo do sistema se operando, a fim acomodar a tecnologia nova dos gráficos. Neste contexto, Vista transformou-se a embarcação para DirectX 10, porque apesar das várias promessas dos terceiro-partidos artificial ao backport DirectX 10 para Windows XP, o cliente o mais atrasado de Windows remanesce a única maneira alcançar o superset de DirectX 9.x.

Microsoft touted um aumento saudável na qualidade do gaming e dos multimedia com DirectX 10 como uma peça de inteiro da arquitetura de Vista, mas com a maioria vasta dos usuários que funcionam ainda Windows XP, o índice digital é focalizado pela maior parte no predecessor de Vista. A companhia de Redmond estava no fato
criticado por produtores e por extremidade do índice - os usuários para que sua decisão faça o exclusive de DirectX 10 Vista, mas o barrage do fogo não deter Microsoft de suas trilhas. Além disso, no primeiro quarto deste ano, Windows Vista SP1 entregará DirectX 10.1. (mais…)

Você soube que DirectX 10 é somente para Windows Vista? Assim a menos que você for feliz com janelas XP usando DirectX 9, seu provavelmente ir querer começar um cartão video affordable decent.

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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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