Comments on: Vista Beta 2

By: Static

Static — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:00:02 +0000

I wondered what had happened to those 2 posts. When I logged into the control panel I saw the Spam protection thing and didnâ€™t give it a second thought.

On the matter at hand… I try not to read stuff posted by MS people. Most times they try to hard to sound technical and just end up confusing the issue.
Hardware emulation is slow, thatâ€™s all there is to it. If you try to run it on a single core computer you hit severe processing lag.
If you have a multi core system (and the operating system is smart enough to use it) you can shift such tasks into separate processors in which case it might work. Dedicated hardware is more efficient but CPU’s have considerably more “brute force”.

Thatâ€™s one possibility anyway.

By: Jarod

Jarod — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:37:42 +0000

Sorry for shutting you out there mate, with so much spam I had to tighten the rules for comments.

The one thing I wonder is, there are people out there stating they run it on a vitual machine with not so much of a problem.

This MS guy, for example: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikekol/archive/2006/07/27/680836.aspx

By: Static

Static — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:39:26 +0000

It needs access to a gfx card.
Emulation wont cut it, there so obsessed with eye candy that the thing actualy needs access to the inbuilt hardware functions of a gfx card to run.

By: Static

Static — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:32:00 +0000

From what little i know of windows vista, not read much into it asside from a few articles on the IET magazines, it draws upon the power of gfx cards. If the hardware isnt present it tries software emulation.
Software emulation of gfx functions is only usefull for software design and testing, its useless for real time applications.