Any way to run XP in 3D?

[Logistics]

I've been searching Google for a while, now and I can't find what I'm looking for. I was wondering if there are any mods/programs to make Windows XP run in 3D; to use the 3D processor. Instead, I come up with programs that give XP a 3D GUI, but not utilize my 3D card to run the whole of Windows.

Any ideas?

[NxB]

Re: Any way to run XP in 3D?

I don't think windows can do this. I know it uses direct3d for acceleration. That is the only way I've seen it use the GPU ever.

[i4004]

Re: Any way to run XP in 3D?

eh, the whole windows?
vista and 7 accelerate gui(mostly eye-candy...puke) via modern video-cards, but to run os solely via gpu?
nope

today these are used to assist video decoding and decoding, to do those eye-candy effects, play games and alike.

windows still mostly relies on cpu and hdd(bastards).

[Per Hansson]

Re: Any way to run XP in 3D?

It's not possible, while a GPU is good for certain (mostly very simple) calculations running a OS would not work

Mainly of course because a GPU is not a x86 processor but even if the kernel was written to support it it would not be faster than your averge Pentium 1Ghz at doing everyday stuff

Now for simple calculations like drawing rectangles on a screen or doing very specific workloads like Seti@Home a GPU can be extremely much more efficient than an x86 processor

[370forlife]

Re: Any way to run XP in 3D?

I thought gpu's were like 100's of times faster than the cpu.

[i4004]

Re: Any way to run XP in 3D?

dunno about 100s of times, but they should be somewhat faster.
(but dunno if they're faster than c2d or c2q types of cpus...)
but also less universal.
optimized for particular tasks...with a raw power that could be better utilised, but so far this was not employed too much.

probably because it's easier to stay on old stuff...

[PCBONEZ]

Re: Any way to run XP in 3D?

I thought gpu's were like 100's of times faster than the cpu.

Look at Core Clock..
http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_8600.html
GPU's are faster at 'GPU things'. Not so sure about 100's of times though.





PCBONEZ - Member, i4004 on Ignore Club.

[i4004]

Re: Any way to run XP in 3D?

in a strange twist of faith seems bonez and i will be giving same answers even though he won't be knowing it...
hihi...

"dunno about 100s of times"

"Not so sure about 100's of times though"

this is priceless!

here, again
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showth...ed=1#post70153
lol!
be aware, he has me on ignore list and can't see my posts...it seems we wrote same(link above) answer within 2 minutes of each other...
(albeit it's obvious it's bonez, as he's talking about mobos in psu section of forum.. <wink>)

hold on..was this offtopic?
DAMN!
<wink>

[Logistics]

Re: Any way to run XP in 3D?

Well, I was hoping it would have an affect on image quality, since 2D uses Pixels (squares) and 3D uses Texels? (triangles) I was wondering what affect this would have on web browsing, image creation, surfing girly pics, etc.

Is there a web browser that runs in 3D?

[PCBONEZ]

Re: Any way to run XP in 3D?

Yes, all of them.
The browser doesn't make what's displayed 2D or 3D it just displays what's there.
If the image was made in 2D it displays 2D.
If the image was made in 3D it displays 3D.
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Your thought on Pixels and Texels is N/A to this because the browser isn't processing raw data into an image it's just re-displaying a completed image that has already been processed somewhere else.