Windows 7: Play Crysis Without a GPU

[george101]

This week, Microsoft unveiled one of Windows 7’s new features, which will allow games and other DirectX 10 and 10.1-based applications to run fully accelerated on obsolete graphics hardware, and even on systems with no graphics acceleration at all.

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[paroh]

This is good news. But i think in one go it will be not much successful (As u need high end processor and it is costly) . But it will help people to play game .Hope further development is done in this context

[ajaybc]

Good news but with my CPU Crysis will crawl
Core 2 Duo @ 2.4GHz Time:763.25 Avg FPS:2.62 Min FPS:0.76 Max FPS:4.70

[Garbage]

hmmm.... But then to run Windows 7, minimun requirements would be >3GHz processor, >4GB RAM, .............

[JojoTheDragon]

What? crysis without gpu. I'm totally shocked. This means that higher hardware requirements

[ratedrsuperstar]

but that means great news for other games not as demanding as crysis.people would be able to play fifa,pes or cricket series long after their cards become obsolete

[Vishal Patil]

the feature uses your cpu power to work like graphics card, so its not that efficient as graphics card. you'll get just a few fps even on the latest graphics card, leave the world of high resolution to discuss.

[hellgate]

gaming in Windows 7 is better than in Vista.NFS Undercover runs smoothly without any probs in Windows 7 but in Vista the fps drops randomly

[pc_game_lover2004]

shocking news

[Cool G5]

Too good to be believed. :sarcastic:

[Faun]

awesome !

[naveen_reloaded]

good move or say innovation...

good going MS...

W7 is wht MS`s whole future depends on ....

[Cool G5]

Originally Posted by naveen_reloaded

W7 is wht MS`s whole future depends on ....

Same was said for Vista

[QwertyManiac]

First (6) they enforce it, now they say its not needed (7). GPU industries might get a little angry.

[MetalheadGautham]

MS would eat their words the moment they see my rig

[axxo]

I'm confused. This comes into rescue only when our onboard graphics or dedicated GPU card fails and when this happens the port(analog/dvi) which takes the video signals to our monitor also would be rendered useless I guess. In that case how do we get our monitor connected to the cpu without a GPU unit?

[george101]

@hellgate, do u run windows 7?

[SunnyChahal]

Some kinda joke it is?

[NIGHTMARE]

let see first promises r broken many times

[hellgate]

Originally Posted by george101

@hellgate, do u run windows 7?

yup running Windows 7 Build 6801.

[hsr]

OMG crysis without a head?

[dheeraj_kumar]

Too good to be true, it'll be more like CRAWLsys rather than crysis.

[amitava82]

Instead of posting lame comments, try to read original article at MSDN.

[dheeraj_kumar]

^^ True...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd285359.aspx

It actually makes sense, so it might not be crawlsys after all, though how effective it would be remains to be seen. Perhaps MS would demonstrate with a sample video.

[hsr]

^^ the sample videos may be tricky unless it shows some rendering details on how they manage to cramp that heavy duty work of a GPU to a simple 3Ghz processor, and BTW i r gonna test this thing via the pre-beta release build 68xx by this weekend.

[Vishal Patil]

Originally Posted by Sunny1211993

Some kinda joke it is?

You are right buddy, the frame rate will be so low, that ultimately this thing will turn out to be a joke, until intel releases processors with integrated GPU..

[x3060]

this really if come true , will be a miracle...anyways, the fps will be tooo low for sure.

[george101]

@hellgate, wat about the drivers and all? hav u run into any kind of problems? wat abt 64bit? hav u tried it also?

[hellgate]

^^^ Vista drivers work perfectly well.
didnt try 64bit
only prob that i faced was i cudnt install Daemon tools.

[comp@ddict]

It's nice news, but even the Core i7 965 Extreme scores a pthetic 7.xx frames, at 800x600 and medium settings. It just manages to beat Intel's IGP.