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Windows Longhorn to make Graphics Cards more Important

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the eye-candy-overkill dept.

Renegade334 writes "The Inquirer has a story about MS Longhorn and its need for better than entry level graphics cards. This is due to the WGF (Windows Graphics Foundation) which will merge 2D and 3D graphics operations in one, and 3D menus and interfaces that require atleast Shader 2.0 compliant cards. Supposedly it will really affect the performance of the new Microsoft OS." This has been noted before in the system requirements for Longhorn, but it would seem the full impact is slowly being realized.

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  1. Wow... like shooting fish in a barrel by agraupe · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How can anti-MS people *not* insult Microsoft when Microsoft seems so very intent in giving them every reason? Although, I must say that it has become so easy it's no fun anymore.

  2. *ahem* by soricine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OS X?

  3. Re:3D by randallpowell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I, for one, welcome our new 3D BSOD overlords.