Quote:Original post by jollyjeffers
Early next year - one of Vista/DXGI/D3D10's new features is virtualised memory [wink]

But I wouldn't like to see the performance when I'm shifting bits of my texture between VRAM, Sys-RAM and my HDD [lol]

Jack

I don’t like to play devil’s advocate but the WDDM 1.0 virtual memory system will give us only a small improvement from what we have today. We get the option to swap out render targets but have to pay for it with every single byte that have to be travel from VRAM back to System RAM as there is no more backup copys like Direct3D 9 managed texture use.

Using more VRAM as you have will stiil be expensive. But as D3D10 have the requirement to create 128 MB resources I expect that most cards will have at least 256 MB.

WDDM 2.1 should be the great step.

Ugh, semi-drunk posting is bad. I realised I was thinking of a 1D lookup texture too - I'm sure a 64k lookup texture could be useful in some cases.

Anyway, thanks for the replies.