The ultimate book on the ultimate Vista for gamers and digital media buffs
If you're the ultimate gamer and multimedia fan, Windows Vista Ultimate and this information-packed book are for you. Want to launch games with a single click? Share files with your Xbox 360? Try out new audio and media tools? It's all here and then some. You'll find step-by-step tutorials, techniques, and hacks—plus in-depth discussions of games, gaming, performance tips, and much more. Whether you're a veteran Windows gearhead or just getting started, this is the book you need to succeed with Vista Ultimate.
- Try out the new Aero Glass user interface and new desktop features
- Set up your graphics card, sound card, and speakers
- Keep Vista secure with stronger firewall and family safety settings
- Meet the new DirectX with 32-bit floating point audio and high-speed DLLs
- Share multimedia across a network with ease
- Enrich your audio with crossfade, shuffle, and volume leveling
- Get up to speed on the new Media Center and Media Player 11
- Use the Universal Controller and WinSAT for gaming
- Optimize game and multimedia performance
- Find out how to run Windows® XP games on Vista
Edit video like a pro
Explore the new Windows Aero interface
Learn all about optimizing Vista Ultimate for gaming
About the Author
Joel Durham, Jr.
I hate writing about myself in the third person for these author blurbs, so I’m going to put a stop to it right now. I’m Joel Durham Jr., and I’m one of your hosts for this adventure. I’ve been a computer and video game nerd all my life, and I’ve been writing professionally about computers, games, operating systems, consoles, and all that kind of stuff since 1997 — when Matt Firme gave me my big break by hiring me as PC Gamer’s first Technical Editor. After a year in that blissful atmosphere I left that job, mainly to escape the San Francisco Bay area (having to get an interestonly ARM mortgage for a $750,000 2-bedroom house on a lot the size of a sheet of standard copier paper, and somehow survive on an editor’s salary).
Derek Torres
I, too, hate writing about myself in the third person; knowing that Joel hated this odd phenomenon as much as I do was the real reason that I chose to write a few chapters for this book. Technical writer by trade, I’ve been into computers for a very long time and getting paid to do it since 1998 or so. My career as a tech writer took off in Paris, France, around the turn of the century where I worked for several software shops.