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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by thylaxene, Nov 10, 2006.

  1. thylaxene

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    thylaxene, Nov 10, 2006
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  2. joacoerazo_legacy

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    very impressive!
     
    joacoerazo_legacy, Nov 10, 2006
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  3. Aras

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    Gee, they already have the new OpenGL extension specs for the developers! DX10 features coming to OpenGL as well :)
     
    Aras, Nov 10, 2006
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  4. Sync1B

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    The "Quantum Effects" one is crazy. Cant believe thats real time! Very cool.
    Bill
     
    Sync1B, Nov 10, 2006
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  5. StarManta

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    Which begs the question.... When will these effects come to Unity? :D
     
    StarManta, Nov 10, 2006
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  6. Aras

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    ...I guess certainly not earlier than Apple will expose these new GL extensions on OS X!
     
    Aras, Nov 10, 2006
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  7. Mindless_Soul

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    I wonder if this is a card that will finally be able to run Vista,
    since the OS alone has system requirements comparable to Half-Life 2 :p

    I don't know about any of you, but I certainly wouldn't want that bloated mess running in the background...


    Looks like a pretty shweet GPU though...
    Impressive videos.
     
    Mindless_Soul, Nov 11, 2006
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  8. taumel

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    I'm looking forward to it, i like to see what Aero has to offer. As for the performance: Hey as long as it also is as much fun to play around with as HL2 was it's a pretty nice deal! :O)
     
    taumel, Nov 11, 2006
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  9. Mindless_Soul

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    :D
    True.
     
    Mindless_Soul, Nov 11, 2006
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  10. Aras

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    What makes you think "GUI on the GPU" in the background in Vista uses more resources than exactly the same think (GUI on the GPU) on OS X? Maybe it does, maybe it does not.

    I've been playing around with Vista for quite some time now, and sure it uses more resources than XP, but it's not terrible. It looked scary at first, but after some time I think I got used to it. I still don't know whether I like it or not though :)
     
    Aras, Nov 11, 2006
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    I would say the system requirements, but I guess that doesn't always mean anything. I was thinking the whole Glass Aero GUI was taxing on the system, but in rectrospect I guess it's just a simple translucency.

    Has anyone here installed Vista on your mac?
     
    Mindless_Soul, Nov 11, 2006
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  12. Aras

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    I do. Upgrading from XP on bootcamped MacBook Pro to Vista RC2 was painless, and all the installed apps just continue to work.

    Vista takes more memory (I usually have ~200MB taken by XP; with Vista it takes ~400MB - compares well to what OS X takes :)). Vista is probably a bit slower than XP - but that could be because in XP I had explorer folder sidebars, Luna theme and all bells&whistles turned off; whereas on Vista I just have everything on by default. Regular work (Visual Studio etc.) feels about the same; I wouldn't say that "Vista slows it down".

    BTW, yes, Aero window decorations do something non-trivial on the graphics card - they blur whatever is behind them. But I guess it only recalculates the blur when something changes on the screen; and if you just have a fullscreen game running then Aero is not visible at all (and I would think then it takes about zero resources).
     
    Aras, Nov 12, 2006
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  13. taumel

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    taumel, Nov 13, 2006
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  14. thylaxene

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    LOL
     
    thylaxene, Nov 14, 2006
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