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Meet The New Radeon
News Until now, Nvidia's GeForce3 has been the only announced graphics hardware capable of delivering the stunning programmable pixel and vertex shader effects built into DirectX 8. ATI Technologies has now unveiled its competitive response to the...
[August 14, 2001, 16:53]
GeForce3 Means Good Times For PC And Xbox Gamers
News The GeForce3 -- also known as the NV20 -- is designed to take advantage of Microsoft's DirectX 8.0, which includes 3D technology licensed from Nvidia. The beta version of DirectX 8 was available to developers for at least six months before it...
[February 28, 2001, 15:05]
Nvidia Unveils NV20 Graphics Chip
News Microsoft is committed to using two Nvidia chips in the Xbox, which will be largely based on DirectX 8.0. Unlike any previous graphics chip, the NV20 is optimised for Microsoft's DirectX 8.0. Graphics chipmaker Nvidia today unveiled details of its...
[February 27, 2001, 11:54]
Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra: A First Look
Talkback ATI are the ones who are crapping in their boots, all they have done is taken old technology and boosted how fast it can render the graphics.where as Nvidia have added new rendering technologies, and enhanced existing ones to take advantage of the...
[June 13, 2004, 1:49]
ATI, Nvidia Competition Heats Up
News The GeForce FX Go 5600 and 5200 include all the DirectX 9 features from the desktop GeForce FX, plus advanced power management technology and a host of new multimedia features for displaying DVD and streaming video, said Tim Lau, senior product...
[March 13, 2003, 14:48]
Matrox 'Parhelia' Aims To Eclipse Nvidia
News Besides the 256-bit memory interface, which provides more than 20GB per second of bandwidth, the GPU has an AGP host interface designed for up to 8X bandwidths and a graphics engine compatible with OpenGL1.3 and DirectX 8.1.
[May 16, 2002, 13:06]
GeForce4 Specs Leak Online
News Nvidia's chief rival, ATI, is said to be preparing a counter-attack with a card that supports Microsoft's DirectX 9 technology. The GeForce cards support DirectX 8. DirectX is Microsoft's application programming interface (API) for gaming, and the...
[January 17, 2002, 13:57]
ATI Delays Radeon 9600
News Canada's ATI took the speed lead last year with the introduction of the Radeon 9700, the first graphics chip to take advantage of new programming capabilities built into DirectX 9, the latest version of Microsoft's library of PC graphics...
[April 2, 2003, 14:30]
Intel's Chipset Road Map Lacks A Driver
News The company wanted it to be the "next-generation scalable architecture" for its chipsets, carrying it forward as Vista PCs replaced Windows XP and games were released for the so-called DirectX 10 technology inside Vista, said Josh Newman, chipset...
[May 18, 2007, 14:29]
Graphics Wars Heat Up
News DirectX, in turn, accesses the accelerated features of Nvidia's TNT family of chips. So Creative's new technology basically acts as a phrase book, allowing Microsoft's DirectX programming interface to understand Glide commands.
[May 14, 1999, 8:08]
3D Graphics World Shaken By Patent Claims
News Microsoft responded to the increasing use of OpenGL for Windows games by creating DirectX, which is focused on games on the Windows platform. However, games that use DirectX are more difficult to port to non-Windows platforms, which boosts the...
[July 11, 2002, 16:14]
ATI Goes Mainstream With New Graphics Technology
News All three, like the Radeon 9700 Pro announced three months ago, support Microsoft's DirectX 9.0, an emerging API (application programming interface) platform being used in high-end games for Windows. DirectX 9.0 allows programmers to take advantage...
[October 25, 2002, 15:22]
Perfect Reflections And Specular Lighting Effects With Cube Environment Mapping
White Papers A unique feature of the NVIDIA GeForce 256, cube environment mapping is fully supported by Microsoft® DirectX® 7 and OpenGL® and is an easy-to-implement step toward photorealism on a desktop PC. NVIDIA's introduction of cube environment mapping in...
[December 26, 2003, 5:06]
DirectX 7: What’s New For Graphics
White Papers NVIDIA’s GeForce 256 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) fully supports the entire suite of DirectX 7 for graphics. Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 7 introduces a wide range of new 3D graphics features for the personal computer.
[October 31, 2003, 2:15]
Microsoft® DirectX® 7: What’s New For Graphics
White Papers NVIDIA’s GeForce 256™ GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) fully supports the entire suite of DirectX 7 for graphics. Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 7 introduces a wide range of new 3D graphics features for the personal computer.
[October 7, 2003, 0:22]
128MB Radeon 8500 Announced
News In terms of price, it should match up with Nvidia's popular GeForce3 Ti 200, which was previously the only budget DirectX 8 card with shader features. ATI expects that the Radeon 8500's best performance will come later in the year with upcoming...
[February 6, 2002, 11:57]
3DLabs Eyes PC Graphics Comeback
News The chip will still support the standard OpenGL and DirectX libraries of graphics programming instructions, but developers who want to do their own programming to squeeze out extra performance can go to town, Schimpf said.
[May 4, 2002, 7:31]
Acer Launches Centrino 2 TravelMates
News Unlike the 6493, which uses the Intel GM45 chipset for integrated 3G graphics and DirectX 10 support, the 6593 has as an option for a discrete ATI Radeon HD 3470 graphics card, which can support DirectX 10.1.
[July 22, 2008, 12:17]
Help With Graphics Card Testing.
Forum If you go to START then RUN and type in DXDIAG and hit enter you should get the DirectX diagnositics tool. Nvidia don't usually require you to remove old drivers before installing new ones so first try grabbing the latest stable drivers from their...
[December 13, 2006, 12:57]
NVidia Detonator Driver (Win 2000/XP)
Downloads Detonator supports 2D graphics, DirectX 8.1, and OpenGL 1.3, and includes nView Desktop Management software. Detonator software is the graphics driver for all nVidia Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The latest driver features improved SPEC...
[October 16, 2002, 8:01]
