pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/win7.jpg" width="494" height="371"Adding to the a href="http://gizmodo.com/5070219/giz-explains-why-windows-7-will-smash-vista"already impressive pile/a of Vista-deflating features we're expecting to see in Windows 7 is WARP, a tech which will allow your PC's CPU to act as a graphics accelerator, possibly doing away with the need for integrated graphics hardware to render user interfaces and low-end games. Not-so-seductively described as a ‘fully conformant software rasterizer’, WARP requires nothing more than an 800MHz processor for completemdash;if comically slowmdash;DX10 compliance./p pAt this stage WARP won't be intended as a gameworthy replacement for dedicated graphics cards, but it could help avoid another "a href="http://gizmodo.com/5097152/judge-orders-ballmer-to-testify-in-vista-capable-class+action-lawsuit"Vista Capable/a" type debacle by standardizing essential graphics capabilities across virtually all hardware. That said, it's not emthat/em slow: Microsoft a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd285359.aspx"reports/a that when paired with the a href="http://gizmodo.com/5099060/giz-explains-why-intels-core-i7-processor-is-a-beautiful-monster"rather awesome i7/a, it runs Crysis faster than Intel's integrated DX10 solutions. Like, 42% faster. Granted, that's still only 7.36FPS on the game's lowest settings, but don't miss the point here: Windows 7 will run Crysismdash;or any other gamemdash;emwithout a video card/em. [a href="http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605271/windows-7-allows-directx-10-acceleration-on-the-cpu.html"CustomPC/a via a href="http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/11/29/2058259.shtml"Slashdot/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=096c0d04b0bbabf3464686bb66074aeap=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=096c0d04b0bbabf3464686bb66074aeap=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=096c0d04b0bbabf3464686bb66074aea" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=wNx3vWjl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=9nsegSFi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=LQ3EJG65"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=LQ3EJG65" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=srRMUksu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=srRMUksu" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/ynoBDNNqPyE" height="1" width="1"/

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