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(Intel, AMD, VIA) A generic processor driver that allows the use of processor-specific controls for performance state transitions. An improved C3 entry algorithm, where a failed C3 entry does not cause demotion to C2. Removal of support for legacy processor performance state interfaces. Removal of support for legacy mobile processor drivers.
Windows Vista introduced WDDM 1.0 as a new display driver architecture designed to be better performing, more reliable, and support new technologies including HDCP. Hybrid Sleep , which combines hibernation and sleep mode functionality for enhanced stability in the event of power failure, also requires WDDM.
Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years earlier, which was then the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows. It was released to manufacturing on November 8, 2006, and over the following two months, it was ...
Intel introduced DirectX 10 for the X3100 and X3500 GPUs in the Vista 15.9 drivers in 2008, though any release of DX10 drivers for the X3000 is uncertain. WDDM 1.1 is supported by X3100 but DXVA-HD is not. OpenGL 2.0 support is available since Vista 15.11 drivers [63] and XP 14.36 drivers. [64] Windows 8 ships with a driver for the X3100. [65]
Organization. Intel. Website. www .intel .com /content /www /us /en /io /serial-ata /ahci .html. The Advanced Host Controller Interface ( AHCI) is a technical standard defined by Intel that specifies the register-level interface of Serial ATA (SATA) host controllers in a non-implementation-specific manner in its motherboard chipsets. [ 1]
Microsoft offers support for Quick Sync in Windows (in Windows Vista and later) based on supporting driver software from Intel and support through both DirectX as well as WMF (Windows Media Foundation). A wide range of applications are based upon this base support for the technology in Windows.
While Ivy Bridge is the last Intel processor to fully support all versions of Windows XP, Haswell includes limited driver support for certain XP editions such as POSReady2009. People have modified the graphics driver for these versions to adapt to normal Windows XP to varying degrees of success.
The development of Windows Vista began in May 2001, [1] prior to the release of Microsoft 's Windows XP operating system, and continued until November 2006. Microsoft originally expected to ship Vista sometime late in 2003 as a minor step between Windows XP (codenamed "Whistler") and the next planned major release of Windows, code-named ...