Windows 7 WARP

[RChadwick]

I just came across an article describing WARP. Basically, it allows you to play games and do graphics-intensive tasks without a good video card, and maybe even without an accelerated card at all, using the CPU instead. However, all the articles I found were from back in 2008. Does anyone know if Warp made it into the retail version? How do you enable it?

 

[torrentg]

Less than likely. Don't count on playing any standard PC game from the last many years without a dedicated graphics accelerator.

 

[RChadwick]

This is what I'm talking about:

Windows 7: Play Crysis Without a GPU - Tom's Hardware

I'm trying to improve, even slightly, the graphics performance of a Netbook (No video card replacement here!) It sounds promising. I would have thought it wasn't possible/practical either, but it looks like they did it.

 

[AvatarOfTheShip]

Sounds great, doesn't it? But then, so did the Hindenburg.

 

[batmeat]

i believe it wasn't put in, but support was added to use the GPU and CPU in tandem to accelerate things like decoding/recoding

 

[Robert Cartman]

Does anyone know what happened finally with this "WARP"?
I haven't seen it in win7.

 

[Mercurial]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6A-6D37-478D-BA17-28B1CCA4865A&displaylang=en

Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) In-Depth Guide