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post #21 of 23
10/2/06 at 10:27pm
Guys here is an interesting read that you might like.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20061002A2007.html

Its about DX
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post #22 of 23
10/2/06 at 10:28pm
Yeah, I mean what's £600 for a new PC when it will stop the kids constantly nagging you? Sooner or later we will all be using it, and lets not forget the XP(SP2) saga. So let's make it later than sooner shall we!
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post #23 of 23
10/3/06 at 12:08am
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Originally Posted by Tegan
My issue with Vista is all the smoke Microsoft is blowing up peoples rears about DX10. They are basically forcing you to upgarde to Vista to use DX10 features, because "XP doesn't support the correct driver architecture"...translation: We want to force you to buy our latest security hole of an operating system that is exactly the same as the last one, except the pretty flashy AeroGlass compositor on top.


The fact that they are not backporting DX10 to XP is what makes me want to tell Microsoft to go blow themselves. I have ZERO NEED to upgrade to Vista, XP runs perfectly well for me. Guess what? Microsoft will invent a need. If I want to play any game that releases after around September of '07, I will need Vista because they will all be DirectX 10. I haven't seen Microsoft try so hard to kill off one of their old OS's since the Windows 3.1/95 change-over.
It's my understanding that one of the reasons is the architecture of Vista is totaly different from the architecture of WinXP. Some features implemented in DX10 are just impossible under XP no matter what you do...short of rewriting chunks of XP.
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