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Doom rendered via Windows task manager: https://youtu.be/hSoCmAoIMOU

⬐ lostgame

Can someone please explain for the uninitiated what kind of crazy magic is going on here?

I don’t know Windows very well and this seems impressive; I’d like to understand what it is a bit better.

⬐ glouwbug

It likely an animated hoax. With 16 cores you can render a 4x4 task manager display; nevermind a 64x64 display

⬐ IntrepidWorm

This particular video may be a hoax- I confess to inowing nothing about that particular channel. However... Over at Dave's Garage, one of the original developers of task manager at Microsoft gets into more or less exactly this. It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to imagine a similar concept as OP ocurring in task manager.

https://youtu.be/oKQ1X_4JCn0

⬐ ASalazarMX

It's a fake render, but the quoted Reddit comment also links to a real video of task manager rendering Bad Apple.

https://dontfeedthegamers.com/doom-recreated-windows-task-ma...

Doom in task manager - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSoCmAoIMOU

⬐ Arrath

Wow

⬐ hanniabu

It's doom not wow

⬐ devoutsalsa

They said Wow, not WoW. #smartass

⬐ Decabytes

If you are interested in how to hack the task manager, Dave Plummer did a video on it yesterday[1]. Turns out you can fake cores on the task manager to get the resolution you need, so you don't need a Dual Socket Epyc CPU.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKQ1X_4JCn0

⬐ Arrath

Thanks! Pretty interesting watch.

⬐ geoduck14

Who does this? I mean... who has the talent, time, and inclination? Is this what happens when startups IPO and nerds retire and have too much free time?

⬐ JorgeGT

This seems to be fake: https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/hsryyn/windows_ta...

⬐ duniel

Yup. This one was thoroughly debunked. @winocm on Twitter actually did render a video in Task Manager though: https://twitter.com/winocm/status/1276037359503466497

⬐ devenblake

Fake but still cool: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/hsryyn/windows_ta...

⬐ detaro

It's kinda amazing that these continue to get shared, despite even the first few videos by him being fairly clearly debunked as fake, e.g. because he got things like the capitalization the the "Task Manager" wrong. More details: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/hsryyn/windows_ta..., https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/hlo6nd/pokemon_the...

⬐ detaro

As with their previous videos, no reason to believe they aren't fake. (i.e. in earlier videos the "Task Manager" somehow didn't quite look like it does on real Windows machines...)

⬐ gjvc

What hardware make/model is this?

⬐ hknapp

possibly this: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13522/896-xeon-cores-in-one-p...