Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Better 2D and 3D graphics in Windows 8

A new week means a new blog article on Building Windows 8 and this time the information is interesting for all users because it has the effect of improvements that Microsoft has brought to the graphics sub-system of the new operating system.
In Windows 8,Microsoft has made a series of changes that promises better performance for all Windows applications.Following an update of the platform to bring DirectX to version 11.1,software instructions from Windows 8 will provide superior performance in handling information, image, text or 3D graphics by balancing top tasks between the CPU and graphics, parallel threads are improving their performance, optimizing memory consumption and improving memory sharing.
In the article published yesterday on the blog, Microsoft presents a number of tests that emphasizes practical theoretical performance improvements.
Thus, rendering text in Metro applications will receive a performance bonus which will be between 150 and 336 percent, but the author not specified whether these improvements will be noticed and on desktop applications case.

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