Windows 7 to Introduce WARP
Category: Operating SystemsPosted: November 28, 2008 08:52PM
Author: Ediseye
Microsoft has just recently announced that Windows 7 will allow DirectX 10 acceleration support on the central processor unit. The new platform, called Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform, or WARP for short, will allow systems to run Direct3D 10 and 10.1 on the CPU. Microsoft claims that a CPU that has a speed as little as 800MHz can run this new platform, though WARP would obviously work much quicker on a multi-core system with support for SSE 4.1. While the idea may not eliminate discrete graphic cards all together, simple games such as simulations, as well as the new Windows 7 interface, will be able to be run on about every system granted the CPU is fast enough to run the new platform.
