performance improvement

The first game to use DX12 is Ashes of the Singularity an RTS based game. Testing shows that DX12 does improve performance although it varies depending on choice of card: Dx12 runs far better on the AMD cards than Dx11 does so they will see the most benefit in this instance. Other games...

Describes a driver update for USB storage devices in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This update may increase the USB data transfer speed. More...

If you are moving your finger at 1 meter per second on an average 100 millisecond touch screen, your object will eventually become about 10 centimeters behind. At Microsoft Research, they have been trying to decrease the latency associated with touch screens. Albert Ng and Paul Dietz of the...

Fixes an issue in which a handle leak occurs every time that the thread that creates and releases the IGroupPolicyObject interface is called. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Fixes an issue in which the startup process is very slow on a computer that has a large hard disk installed and that is running Windows 7. This issue occurs when you create many restore points on the computer. More...

Have you ever run into a scenario where a long running task causes the Visual Studio UI thread to hang or become unresponsive? The PerfWatson extension logs these issues and automatically and anonymously reports back to Microsoft. In this episode, we are joined by Cameron McColl, who explains...

So far i am (hate to say it) loving windows7 had an issue with a icplus 10/100 ethernet adapter but replaced with a d-link and no trouble....i have issues with the three mentioned software bits as they hang ...and run two to three instances in task manger processes....once i remove and restart...