{"id":1542,"date":"2008-11-26T19:13:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T19:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2009-03-09T09:28:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T09:28:32","slug":"warp-windows-advanced-rasterization-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/warp-windows-advanced-rasterization-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"WARP – Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is WARP?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

WARP stands for Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform. This paper describes the following aspects of WARP10. It is scheduled to be a part of the DirectX graphics solution in Windows 7. WARP10 is a really fast software rasterizer that conforms well to just about any scenario.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Goals<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

WARP10 aims to play a few major roles such as enabling rendering when DX10 hardware is not available and also helping to provide maximum performance from such hardware if present. Here are some quick numbers…<\/span><\/p>\n


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Example Data<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Running Direct3D 10 Crysis at 800×600 with all the quality settings on their lowest settings:
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For example, this is the same test running across a variety of hardware:<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can find more in-depth information at the source linked below.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


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Leon Hyman
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Microsoft has released some more information about Windows 7 and now they have given us the word on the Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform or WARP for short.<\/p>\n

WARP will be implemented in Windows 7 giving it the ability to render DirectX 10 using software-only rasterization. No dedicated graphics hardware will be needed to run the basic DX10 effects because it can all be done by the CPU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108,110,109,105,473,107,106],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-advanced","tag-platform","tag-rasterization","tag-warp","tag-warp10","tag-windows","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}