Tag: ACCELERATION

Flash Player 10.2 is finally out of beta! We've covered this upgrade before, and after three months of beta testing, Adobe feels ready to roll this one out as an official update. The key features that make Flash 10.2 a worthwhile upgrade are: Proper full-screen support for multi-monitor systems: At long last, users with more than one monitor would be able to play a full-screen video on ...

Hardware acceleration is a hot topic in the current browser market, as competitors attempt to differentiate themselves through speed. Somewhat surprisingly it's actually Internet Explorer 9 leading the way, with its decidedly Windows 7 biased approach. Google's Chrome browser has also flirted with hardware acceleration for many facets of its rendering engine, mainly targeted towards WebGL. But ...

Back in July of 2008, Truecrypt v6 introduced the ability to encrypt your system partition. It also brought support for multiple processors and an overall performance bump. Now, version 7 is out and it's the fastest TrueCrypt ever -- thanks to hardware accelerated encryption. If you're running a compatible CPU which sports the AES-NI instructions (most Intel Core i5 and i7 processors), you ...

VLC is an excellent alternative media player, and one that's extremely popular with our readers. That doesn't mean it's issue-free, of course. VLC still struggles from time to time with high def video, though that's about to change with the upcoming 1.1 release. Developers are hard at work bolting on GPU acceleration to the app, and the results look good so far. Forum user riderx's CPU ...

It's already been pretty widely reported that Internet Explorer 9 will feature better support for standards -- including HTML5. We also know it's going to take advantage of your GPU via Direct2D and DirectWrite. Now, a blog post from the folks at AMD has revealed the IE9 will support Direct2D hardware acceleration for the <canvas> element. Here's what AMD's Robin Maffeo had to say: "The ...