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OppoKaze

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1: I've read that DX10 will only be available for Vista users. When games are released utilizing DX10, will I have to have Vista to play them?

2: Has Microsoft announced any new/restriced DRM/authentication technology that would make it more difficult to illegally obtain Vista than XP?

3: What are stream processors, and are they a Nvidia specific technology?

Thanks.
 
Question 1, DX10 is Vista only.. With the exception of a couple of MS game titles it will be a year or two before we begin to see Vista/DX10 only games.. Even MS's Vista only games will have a DX9L path for quite a while.. You may loose a bit of eye candy and or performance running in Dx9 mode, but they will work.. So for the next couple of years, most games will work with Xp/Dx9..

Question 2.. I'm sure someone will find a way to warez it.. New protections or not.. Just buy it if you intend to use it though..

Don't know bout the other question...
 
1) What he said
2) No warez talk allowed here cos insta ban may land.
3) Stream processors are utilised in Physics, some 3D graphics and other types of processing that benefits from long parallel processes.
AMD are developing a CPU that will have some built on, NVidias 8800 series cards have lots of them and so will ATI's R600.
There is also AGEIA's PCI PhysX card that kick started the whole shebang!
 
1.) Yes.

2.) Yes.

3.) 'Stream processors' is simply what NVIDIA calls the individual unified processors on the 8800 series of video cards. Since Microsoft .NET technology came out (that I am aware of), stream processing has been pretty popular on the software side of things, and I see this as a reflection of that trend. DX10 is supposed to be a radically different coding paradigm, so it follows that DX10 hardware should be radically different than what came before it. And it is.
 
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