• Rendering Tier 0 No graphics hardware acceleration. The DirectX version level is less than version 7.0.
• Rendering Tier 1 Partial graphics hardware acceleration. The DirectX version level is greater than or equal to version 7.0, and lesser than version 9.0.

• Rendering Tier 2 Most graphics features use graphics hardware acceleration. The DirectX version level is greater than or equal to version 9.0.

Shift-Left 1, via Wikipedia

The problem is that in PowerShell, getting the “high-order word” of an integer is a little annoying, because the normal way to do that is to right-shift the integer to throw away the low-order word … and PowerShell is missing the shift operators. Why? I don’t know. In any case, I figured, well, I’ll just write it as a function with a call out to C# to make my life simpler. The one catch is that the Add-Type cmdlet that lets you inject C# classes is new in PowerShell 2.0, so if you want to use this script in PowerShell 1.0 you need to get the New-Type function from PoshCode and replace Add-Type with New-Type in the script.

I wrote a simple little static C# class to actually do the shifting, and then a pair of functions: Shift-Left and Shift-Right which can even work in the pipeline. NOTE: it assume the values are passed in by index, so when you’re in the pipeline it should only have one parameter ($x) which will be the shift count, but when you’re passing both as parameters to the function, $y is the shift count.