can you imagine playing a game with touch screen .. something like call of duty 4 or unreal tournament 3..

The screen would be broken within minutes due to the player getting excited and punching the screen instead of touching it ..lol

The Apple iPhone and iTouch have the very same touch screen interface for resizing pics / zooming etc ... so Windows 7 is not that impressive.

Windows 7 is already out of date using old technology already

KT

lol now you have me thinking allsorts ......imagine watching a blue movie and dropping your nuts on the screen

Not everyone is like Simple, some of us use controllers to Play Call of Duty, not real Uzi's and sniper rifles. My son has gone through 3 screen protectors on his ITouch, a must have for a touch screen.

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Greetings,

I was just browsing through the forum when I came upon your posts about Windows 7. I am still "getting acquainted" with Vista so when I read here about Windows 7 I checked it out at Welcome to Windows 7

I am surprised that Microsoft is coming out with a new OS already. I thought they would be occupied perfecting Vista.

Call that tea-baggin' the touch screen!!!

Windows 7 allows DirectX 10 acceleration on the CPU

28th November 2008 by Ben Hardwidge

Windows 7’s new WARP system can run Direct3D 10 and 10.1 on the CPU, doing away with the need for a hardware 3D accelerator in some circumstances!

It turns out that Intel isn’t the only company that’s looking at performing Direct3D in software; Microsoft has just announced that it’s also planning to introduce a new feature called WARP in Windows 7 that allows you to run Direct3D 10 and 10.1 on the CPU.

In what could be seen as an easy answer to the Vista-capable debacle, where there was some confusion as to what 3D graphics hardware you specifically needed to run Windows Vista’s Aero interface, M*cros*ft has introduced what it calls a ‘fully conformant software rasterizer’ called WARP (Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform) 10, which does away with the need for a dedicated hardware 3D accelerator altogether.

Microsoft details the new feature in this document on MSDN, in which the company says that WARP 10 will support all the features and precision requirements of Direct3D 10 and 10.1. The feature also supports up to 8x multi-sampled anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering and all optional texture formats. The minimum CPU spec needed is just a simple 800MHz CPU, and it doesn’t even need MMX or SSE, although M*cros*ft says that WARP 10 will work much quicker on multi-core CPUs with SSE 4.1.

Of course, software rendering on a single desktop CPU isn’t going to be able to compete with decent dedicated 3D graphics cards when it comes to high-end games, but M*cros*ft has released some interesting benchmarks that show the system to be quicker than Intel’s current integrated DirectX 10 graphics. Running Crysis at 800 x 600 with the lowest quality settings, an eight-core Core i7 system managed an average frame rate of 7.36fps, compared with 5.17fps from Intel’s DirectX 10 integrated graphics.

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