POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Inadvisible : Re: Inadvisible Server Time
5 Sep 2024 07:23:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Inadvisible  
From: Invisible
Date: 27 Aug 2009 05:38:46
Message: <4a965426$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-cpu-gpu,6645.html
> 
> "Systems built to take advantage of WARP from a hardware standpoint will 
> be able to display graphics even when the video card is missing-or 
> toasted."
> 
> So what are they going to do, put the DVI connector on the motherboard 
> or something?  Sounds cool.

I guess the idea is that if the GPU is toast but the card itself still 
works, it's still usable... but wouldn't that be the case anyway? *shrugs*

>> Crysis with no GPU? Now I've seen everything!
> 
> Looks like this is just a beefed up version of the reference rasteriser 
> that comes with the DirectX SDK.

Beefed up to support all DirectX 10.1 features, yeah...


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