Author Archives: Ron

DirectX 10.1 makes current hardware obsolete? Not!

Posted on August 14, 2007 by Ron

Having just returned from Siggraph this year I was fielding some questions from some co-workers. “Didja hear that Microsoft announced DirectX 10.1?”, “Yeah”, “And that it makes all DX10.0 hardware obsolete?” – To which my witty reply was “huh?” I … Continue reading →

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Nival closes LA office, Kevin Bachus not seen…

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Ron

I’ve always been fascinated by some of the folks who used to work in the DirectX/Xbox groups at Microsoft and how they manage pursue (seemingly) lucrative, somewhat high-profile careers with nothing but string of empty promises behind them. Kevin is … Continue reading →

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Is Intel just getting back into the graphics business, or are they going to change it?

Posted on April 10, 2007 by Ron

It’s no great secret that Intel has been eyeing the discreet graphics market. Intel typically owns about 30-40% of the desktop graphics market, but that’s strictly integrated (and hence – usually considered underpowered) graphics. ATI and Nvidia own most of … Continue reading →

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Using Aero Glass on Vista: my Microsoft Developer Network Article is up!

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Ron

One of the nice things about Vista is that they rewrote the display architecture to be a composition engine. Every window gets some off screen memory to display itself to and then all these windows are composited together onto the … Continue reading →

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NVIDIA Releases Developer Tools

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Ron

At the GDC, graphics chip maker NVIDIA announced they are releasing a bunch of updated and new tools. The tool upgrades are: FX Composer 2, PerfHUD 5, ShaderPerf 2. They are also releasing a new GPU-accelerated texture tool, plus a … Continue reading →

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Enhancing Vista Performance for under 10 bucks

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Ron

ReadyBoost: SuperFetch will preload data to you hard drive’s virtual memory page file so the data is in the right format to be read into memory, it’s just sitting on your hard disk. ReadyBoost is the next step. If you … Continue reading →

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New “Longhorn” due in April WinHEC

Posted on February 22, 2005 by Ron

In an e-mail to developers on Wednesday, Microsoft said it would offer a new developer preview release of Longhorn at the company’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), April 25-27 in Seattle. The preview will be the first public build of … Continue reading →

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Take Two faces “murder training” lawsuit

Posted on February 18, 2005 by Ron

Take Two, the publisher of the Grand Theft Auto game series, is once again facing yet another frivolous a lawsuit that alleges its software was complicit in murder. The legal action was filed on behalf of the families of police … Continue reading →

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