Recent content by mjtdevries

I'm happy for Corwin_B of course, but I wonder what happened with his system. Did the videocard automatically clock the gpu down when it noticed the PSU didn't give enough power? Then why didn't it give a proper notification of that? I don't want cards to do such things without notification.

I hope you are right that this will mean a move away from parallax mapping etc. But will it really? I had those some hopes in the past with the TruformII demo's which showed the same thing. Those already showed the adjustment of complexity of meshes dynamically according to screen proximity...

No it is not. That only tells you what the demo does, but it doesn't tell you why it is special, or which functions are new to DX10 and couldn't have been done with DX9! For instance: the developer talks about really cool displacement mapping. But that is not something new. Instancing is...

Not sure if your reply was aimed at me,... But yes, I did read those links. And those links were the reason why I wondered if this couldn't have been done with DX9 as well. I see no mention at all of any unique DX10 features being used.

This demo is not meant to be visually awesome, but is it even technically special? Instancing and vertex shaders is not something new with DX10. I have the impression that this could have been written in DX9 as well... Can someone explain what is so special about this, that it needs DX10?

I'd rather have some more fragments, instead of losing data because journaling is turned off.

That would not be a good test. The reason being that it is also important to measure how long a disk will stay defragmented. (how good is the free space consolidation for example) The default defrag tool in windows might not do badly in that test, but your disk would be terrible fragmented...

Memorizing formulas is stupid anyway. Understanding those formulas is what is important. Schools and universities should teach people how to use those formulas. But universities focus on memorizing formula's instead of understanding them. People can get high grades by memorizing what...

I think that it is still free for non-commercial use, but somehow it still want to do things over the network.

I'm not going to open an UDP port for a simple defrag tool either. The defragger itself might be ok, but I don't like such tricks.

Aparantly you think that scientific methods are all just about making formula's to predict how something behaves. That is only a VERY SMALL part of it. Scientific methods have much more to do with proper measuring methods (double-blind etc). And only if you have proper objective measuring...

Aparantly you haven't read all of the thread? Photoshop and numerous other programs create registry entries pointing to non existant temp files. That is apparantly normal behaviour and your system will work fine. But once you remove those entries, photoshop will become horribly slow, and...

There are lots of ways that a registry cleaner tool could use to know that. Take the photoshop tempfile issue for example: - It could check if the photoshop.exe is present anywhere on the system - It could ask you if you still use photoshop - It could keep a list of registry entries that...

I learned the hard way not to trust those programs to do it themselves. Most will check if a file/directory listed in the registry actually exists. If it doesn't they will delete the key. Unfortunately there are lots of programs that use tempfiles and have them listed in the regsitry...

Would be nice if Microsoft made some cleanup tools themselves, so you would be sure that they don't mess up windows... Do you guys have recommendations for good (registry) cleaning tools?