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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. Re:How silly by jcgf · · Score: 0, Redundant

    OTOH = on the other hand

  2. Re:No biggie. by mt+v2.7 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You think a 9800 is bad?

    I've got a PCI-e 6600GT.. and it's OVERCLOCKED, to boot!

    Now if all of those extra video cards could be made to do something useful.. I mean, damn, 128 GDDR3 running at 1000MHz and a 128bit Core running at 500MHz.. I've got more power than most windows users! (Don't even speak on the water-cooled 4 GHZ P4.. >.>)

    What we need is a distributed computing project, yup, that's the ticket.. we could save LIVES and futher justify our inanely expensive video cards!