Microsoft has just made available new games for the Zune HD. These aren’t the same old simple games that were launched with the Zune HD, but make full use of the power of Nvidia Tegra. A welcome addition to the Zune HD gaming catalogue are Project Gotham Racing: Ferrari Edition as well as Vans Sk8: Pool Service and Audiosurf. Hopefully,...
The Zune team members have confirmed that the Zune HD has the Nvidia Tegra chip during a Zune Insider podcast number 24. At 18:30 into the podcast, Matt Akers confirms that the chatter going on about the Tegra in the Zune HD is true. Here’s what he says:
We actually want to confirm something. There’s a lot of chatter going on about us...
Richard Huddy, Senior. Manager Developer Relations at AMD recently blogged about Why we should get excited about DirectX 11. It’s an excellent post on how DirectX 11 will improve graphics for us. He talks about tessellation, GPGPUs and the efficiency of DirectX 11 with multi-core CPUs. But the most interesting part of his blog post, which...
If you have download Windows 7 RC or are downloading it, you might want to check out the latest version of ATi and nVidia’s graphics drivers for the new OS. The new drivers support WDDM 1.1 for Windows 7, so don’t bother installing Windows Vista’s graphic drivers as they might cause instability and you wont get the full benefits of WDDM...
Adrian Kingsley over at Hardware 2.0 has done another comparison between Vista and 7, keeping XP out this time, and based on gaming performance. He doesn’t reveal any accurate numbers for his benchmarks as that is against the Windows 7 RC EULA ( I wonder if using a leaked build is against that as well?! ). The benchmarks have been run on...
