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RivaTuner is a freeware overclocking and hardware monitoring program that was first developed by Alexey Nicolaychuk in 1997 [1] for the Nvidia video cards.It was a pioneering application that influenced (and in some cases was integrated into) the design of subsequent freeware graphics card overclocking and monitoring utilities.
Microsoft DirectCompute is an application programming interface (API) that supports running compute kernels on general-purpose computing on graphics processing units on Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7 and later versions.
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The Windows Task Manager utility for Windows XP and Server 2003, in its Performance tab, shows three counters related to commit charge: . Total is the amount of pagefile-backed virtual address space in use, i.e., the current commit charge.
Prior to DirectX 10, DirectX runtime was designed to be backward compatible with older drivers, meaning that newer versions of the APIs were designed to interoperate with older drivers written against a previous version's DDI. The application programmer had to query the available hardware capabilities using a complex system of "cap bits" each ...
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has experience with federal research funding, having spent more than two decades developing the ...
Managed DirectX was first released in 2002 to allow less complicated access to the DirectX API through the .NET framework. The Managed DirectX SDK allows developers access to numerous classes which allow the rendering of 3D graphics ( Direct3D ) and the other DirectX API's in a much easier, object-oriented manner.
DirectPlay Voice was introduced in Windows Me as part of DirectX 7.1 for multiplayer games. [2] It is a voice communications, recording and playback API that allows gamers to use voice chat in games written to take advantage of the API, through a DirectPlay network transport session itself.