>> 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*
> 
> But how is it going to work if the entire video card is "missing" like 
> they say?

Doesn't make any sense to me either. Maybe the reviewer got their facts 
wrong?

> The reference rasteriser already supports all DirectX 10.1 features, 
> that's the idea of it.

So I'm guessing it's coded for correctness rather than speed. If that's 
true, there's probably a few easy ways to speed it up.

> Amusingly I just tried it on one of the 
> samples, 20fps on the GPU, 0.2fps on the CPU :-) I guess they made it a 
> bit faster :-)

Which GPU? Which CPU? ;-)

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