<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Your video adapter (neomagic magicmedia 256av) indicates it does not support Direct3D or OpenGL acceleration. Toontown ...

It looks like we're in store for a serious speed up when it comes to Windows 7. While previous talk revolved around GPU acceleration, Microsoft is now implementing something called the WARP system, ...

We've already heard that Microsoft plans to make use of GPU acceleration in Windows 7, but it looks like the company is also going to be doing its part for the GPU-less out there, with the OS's new so ...

The other day the eagle-eyed Long Zhengnoticed a document on Microsoft's MSDN site outlining how Microsoft plans to allow DirectX 10 acceleration on the CPU. WARP (which stands for Windows Advanced ...

Opera Software has released a hardware accelerated preview of the coming Opera 11.5 web browser. For now the hardware acceleration is only available for Windows systems with OpenGL 2.x compatible ...

Here is a recent problem I had concerning DirectDraw (fullscreen DirectX applications).<P> One sunny morning, as I went to boot up my machine (a 466MHz Celeron w/ 384 RAM, BT878 TV card, GF2 MX400 ...

True to its word, Microsoft has used the Game Developers Conference to formally announce DirectX 12 with the promise of significant performance improvements thanks to an approach that allows ...

With many power users staring blankly at Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 release in bemusement, the company needs to do some serious work to convince them of the benefits that come with an upgrade - ...

Microsoft has confirmed this week that the new DirectX 11.1 is exclusive to Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system, with Microsoft’s Daniel Moth writing a reply on the Microsoft Answers forum.