Avalon Beta
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Not yet. I might download it tonight and give it a whirl on the test rig to see if there is actually some previewing of the 3D interface. It'll be interesting to see if it causes current graphics boards to spin up to full fan speeds as its using the 3D pipeline.
What exactly is "Avalon" and how badly will it screw up my XP pro SP2 install?
(Heck, I was planning on a re-build soon anyways.
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(Heck, I was planning on a re-build soon anyways.
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Thanks. So I should install it if I want to bork my computer up, but it won't let me play with it or do anything.
Hmmmm, seems a tad "lose/lose"-ish viewed from that perspective. :?
Hmmmm, seems a tad "lose/lose"-ish viewed from that perspective. :?
MasterBaiter
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I'm pretty sure it wants you to install a beta version of .net to boot.
Unless you're doing dev work... it's not going to be that exciting. :?
Unless you're doing dev work... it's not going to be that exciting. :?
Actually it doesn't, it works just "fine" with DX9.0c, or was it even .0bDemirug said:
Okay, it doesn't work fine at all, but it works
Here's a shot I took, it's damn buggy, as you can see (the greenish borders should NOT look like that for example, in fact they shouldn't even be there, not to mention the effects are quite jaggy most of the time (running on 9550 128MB 128bit)
Kaotik said:
You don't need to check this I am know that it announce itself as a DX9.0 Version. DX 9.L is only an internal name that is used for DX9.0 builds for Longhorn. But this version have some additional features that the new windowmanager need to work. I am not sure if you have ever take a look in the DX9 SDK. But you will find an additional parameter called " pSharedHandle" on many of the Create* Methods. The SDK say that this parameters are reserved. In the case of DX9.L the get a meaning. There are some other changes too but they don't break the interfaces. Because of this it is still a DX 9.0. The DDK ist an other thing. With Longhorn MS changed the whole interface between the runtime and the driver. But I am thing that this will go to far here.
Thanks Kaotik, that's the first screenshot I've seen of the 3D interface.
I always wondered just what in the heck they were talking about, now I know...thank you.
I always wondered just what in the heck they were talking about, now I know...thank you.
DudeMiester
Regular
That's darn cool, if I do say so myself!
wow, looks alot like Project Looking Glass from Sun...
http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/details.html
http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/details.html
It's pretty similar indeed, but how many ways there can be to make 3D GUI, which is easy to use etc etcAlthornin said:
If someone didn't guess it from the pic, the pic is what you get from alt+tab, holding alt & pressign tab again and again switches the order of the open windows.
val_parthen
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Cool, I was wondering if it actually did anything, lol.
Has it hosed your install yet? Or has it broken anything that you can see? I know it's rough and whatnot, but I don't mind slapping it on my primary install (hell, it's the only DX9-capable box I've got!), but it'd be nice to know if I'm gonna lose my install. :b
Has it hosed your install yet? Or has it broken anything that you can see? I know it's rough and whatnot, but I don't mind slapping it on my primary install (hell, it's the only DX9-capable box I've got!), but it'd be nice to know if I'm gonna lose my install. :b
val_parthen said:
Haven't installed the Avalon beta, that's Longhorn (which includes Avalon, though)
Only thing broken with it atm on my rig is WMP, since I apparently downloaded wrong version of WMP10 on it (the link was supposed to go for techincal beta of WMP10, but I think it was final version after all. hopefully all i need is bit of registry editing for fixing the problem (of unexpected wmp version))
Kaotik said:Actually it doesn't, it works just "fine" with DX9.0c, or was it even .0bDemirug said:
Okay, it doesn't work fine at all, but it works
Here's a shot I took, it's damn buggy, as you can see (the greenish borders should NOT look like that for example, in fact they shouldn't even be there, not to mention the effects are quite jaggy most of the time (running on 9550 128MB 128bit)
Neat looking I guess, but why would I want something like this?
