Microsoft Direct 3D update

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2670838

This update improves the features and performance of the following components:

Release Date: February 26, 2013

Direct2D
DirectWrite
Direct3D
Windows Imaging Component (WIC)
Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP)
Windows Animation Manager (WAM)
XPS Document API
H.264 Video Decoder
JPEG XR codec

No idea what specifically is in the update, but it could be the new DX11 feature that AMD have been trumpeting.

 

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I think you might be right there. I just ran windows update and it updated a few things, don't think this was included though. Appreciate the effort to look for me.

Thats what i did, then as i always do i checked to see what that update was.

check to see what it was.

 

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Nah, you tell me.

Don't have Win 8, don't like it

 

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All of you stay on Windows 7 or earlier. Please never upgrade, especially if you're into benchmarks or games. Terrible scores and lower fps all round. Right Locky?

If its a choice of + 0.2 FPS and a really badly thought out interface thats just annoying beyond reason while also managed to be so backwards and long winded to use you spend more time steeping through a mase of hopes to get to some apps you had might as well not bother and with that keep your hair.

Its designed for touch screen Tablets, i'm sure its pretty good for that, but it seems a deliberate attempt to engineer the Desktop power user completely out of it, as they have removed a lot of it or made it difficult to get to.

Presumably Microsoft assume people like me would just give up and buy their Tablets, what they don't realise is (because Microsoft are not the most intelligent people) it just makes me develop an unhealthy hate for their products.

So a Windows Tablet is the last thing i will buy.

 

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btw heads up for win8 users:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2012/11/14/directx-11-1-and-windows-7.aspx

this is indeed 11.1 for 7. not sure about the discrepancy in dates but the kb number is the same

I thought Misro$oft said Win 7 users would not be getting DX11.1.

Why the change of heart.