PDC09 – Pre-Conference – Windows Bootcamp Part 7 – Graphics Improvements in Windows 7
Windows 7 Usage of the GPU
- Continues from Vista
- Media Center UI
- Video Playback
- Desktop Window Manager (DWM)
- Win7 DWM uses DirectX3D10.1 API
- Scales in Performance all the way from low end integrated graphics cards to the highest level ones
Windows 7 High Color
- Wider Gamur
- Bigger then sRGB, eg. xvYCC, AdobeRGB
- Higher precision
- Higher Dynamic Range
- Windows 7 provides
- Color Calibration Tool
- Gamma LUT Loader
High DPI Displays are now Common
- Improvements in Windows UI & IE
- Automatic Configuration in OOBE (Out-Of-Box-Experience)
- Promotion the Control Panel UI for DPI
Current Challengues
- 3D
- Uses DX3..10
- Challenges
- Not always available
- No Hardware
- Server
- New in Win7
- usage of DirectX10.1
- 2D
- Uses GDI, GDI+
- Challenges
- Quality and Performance
- New in Win7
- usage of Direct2D
- Text
- GDI
- Challenges
- Quality, Not up to date
- New in Win7
- usage of DirectWrite
- Imaging
- GDI, GDI, WIC+
- Challenges
- Extensive Format
- Support for Security
- New in Win7
- new WIC version
- Device Control
- GDI
- Challenges
- Outdated notion of devices