DirectX 12

Final8y · 14 Jul 2014 at 15:20

Gregster said:
There used to be a crude OS that worked over the top of Workbench but can't for the life of me think what it was. It was a joy to work with though and Bulletin Boards FTW!

Such a shame Commodore had bad marketing, as they were a fantastic company.

MagicWB

Gregster · 14 Jul 2014 at 15:29

Final8y said:
MagicWB

You diamond. It was bugging the crap outta me

gpuerrilla · 14 Jul 2014 at 21:58

Gotta love them days Greg!

I was on the Amstrad (CPC464) coming from the rubber keyed spectrum I reckon!

scotsdragon · 11 Aug 2014 at 19:37

Spectrum 48k those were the days when you had spent and hour loading a game nipped for a drink come back to find the tape deck chewed your tape lol

Gregster · 2 Oct 2014 at 11:19

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/preview

If anyone wishes to try out the early version of Windows 10. Here it is

Martini1991 · 2 Oct 2014 at 11:20

Gregster said:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/preview

If anyone wishes to try out the early version of Windows 10. Here it is

Don't know if that belongs in this thread, there's no DX12 in the preview

Gregster · 2 Oct 2014 at 11:35

Martini1991 said:
Don't know if that belongs in this thread, there's no DX12 in the preview

You do have a point. I am sure the hierarchy won't mind

shankly1985 · 2 Oct 2014 at 11:38

Off-Topic Rubbish

Joking aside, am really liking the look of Windows 10, but to early for me to jump as my main OS
I do have spare SSD I could install on might do that over the weekend.

Gregster · 2 Oct 2014 at 11:45

shankly1985 said:
Off-Topic Rubbish

Joking aside, am really liking the look of Windows 10, but to early for me to jump as my main OS
I do have spare SSD I could install on might do that over the weekend.

Yer, that is what I plan to do tonight after work. I have a spare 60GB SSD I will use for W10 and have a little play. Not expecting too much this early on but it will be good to get a feel of it.

shankly1985 · 2 Oct 2014 at 11:49

Gregster said:
Yer, that is what I plan to do tonight after work. I have a spare 60GB SSD I will use for W10 and have a little play. Not expecting too much this early on but it will be good to get a feel of it.

Yeah my worry is just compatibility for use as my main OS. I understand Avast don't yet work and I stand by Avast a lot.
Driver not an issue as its more Windows 8 re-skin with tweaks i would say. AMD driver 14.9 comes pre-installed.

So I think its just security stopping me, and the what if this dont work etc.

Gregster · 2 Oct 2014 at 11:52

I use the built in security from MS. Worked well enough for me since W7.

triss · 2 Oct 2014 at 12:19

I threw it on my old core 2 duo 1.8ghz lappy (originally vista), ,, booting is annoying as i haven't figured out a way to bypass having to login and enter a password/pin which makes it hard to judge bootup time. Seems less snappy doing simple stuff than win 7 but will need to test more

Muz333 · 2 Oct 2014 at 12:28

triss said:
I threw it on my old core 2 duo 1.8ghz lappy (originally vista), ,, booting is annoying as i haven't figured out a way to bypass having to login and enter a password/pin which makes it hard to judge bootup time. Seems less snappy doing simple stuff than win 7 but will need to test more

From the Windows 10 thread:

jakspyder said:
type "netplwiz" into cmd prompt without the quotations.

In the thing that comes up, UNtick the require users to login with a password. Hit ok and it will prompt for username and password.

The username will already be filled, make sure to change this to your full email you use to login to windows.

Put password in. hit ok. reboot

You will now login every time without needing to put your password in and still be able to use the windows store and all those goodies.

triss · 2 Oct 2014 at 12:52

Muz333 said:
From the Windows 10 thread:

Thanks thats working great, will go find the Windows 10 thread when i get up

Gregster · 2 Oct 2014 at 13:32

Muz333 said:
From the Windows 10 thread:

Nice one and will also have a peruse of that at work if some kind person wants to link me it

humbug · 2 Oct 2014 at 16:20

Gregster said:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/preview

If anyone wishes to try out the early version of Windows 10. Here it is

yeah, got an Email from them to test it.... thanks.

Boomstick777 · 2 Oct 2014 at 21:56

Microsoft’s DirectX 12 Low Level API is Launching with Windows 10 in 2015

Read more: http://wccftech.com/microsofts-directx-12-level-api-launching-windows-10-2015/#ixzz3F1VVQMYk

Direct3D 12 is the implementation of the famous API that should have come much earlier but didn’t; because of either lack of innovation or monopolistic stagnancy. It is targeted at reducing the CPU Overhead primarily while introducing new hardware level features and it is worth mentioning that Nvidia is also introducing its own DX12 (and maybe 11.3) feature which is the Voxel Based Global Illumination standard (VXGI). This is a pseudo-alternative to Ray Tracing and produces close-to-photo realistic graphics using tiny cubes to calculate global illumination or lightning. The effect is pretty remarkable but the technique is very expensive to utilize on GPUs. This is why, its basically targeted towards the high end cards such as the Maxwell GTX 980 and 970.

Ayahuasca · 2 Oct 2014 at 21:57

It's happening :cool:

jh30uk · 2 Oct 2014 at 22:58

Anyone here a Dev or knows a Dev and is in the "DirectX 12 Early Access Program"?

https://onedrive.live.com/survey?resid=A4B88088C01D9E9A!107&authkey=!AFgbVA2sYbeoepQ