crave.cnet.com — Summary: DX10 hardware too expensive. Vista sucks. DX10 games not much better than DX9. Developers have no incentive to make DX10 games. There you have it. Maybe devs will finally wise up and start making OpenGL cross-platform games again.
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rattelerJul 29, 2007
YAMA alert.
sirbriggsJul 30, 2007
I just built a Vista/ Ubuntu machine last week, no problems at all with Vista (its 64bit) but Ubuntu took a day to get the drivers to install correctly without crashing the GUI (8800GTS isn't really supported yet in Ubuntu) Point is:Vista is good with new hardware, bad with old (and getting better)
agretJul 31, 2007
You think you can get 10FPS on Crysis on hardware that /only/ gets 120 FPS on Tribes 2? Sucks to be you.
screwedthepoochJul 31, 2007
I know someone who got Vista on a brand new laptop. It took over an hour to set up the wireless router, because Vista has all these bulls**t security dialogs and restricts access to basic commands (like ipconfig) unless you dance around all the security s**t and set up a bunch of accounts with admin privileges. Vista is just XP with stolen Apple GUI and more "protection" from your own computer, since you're obviously too stupid to do anything without f**king it up, according to MS. It really is just a bunch of added unnecessary features with...what...7 different versions of the OS? (the cheaper of which doesn't even support certain video and audio playback) There's no way anybody should drop $300 for this trash. Strong arming people into a new OS so they can continue to play games is gestapo tactics, and, luckily, most aren't falling for it.
Closed AccountAug 1, 2007
doesnt matter because crysis runs fine on dx9 anyway, i doubt dx10 looks *that* much bettereither way vista smells
Closed AccountAug 8, 2007
I was under the impression that that had nothing really to do with DX10, and everything to do with plain ol' hardware architecture. Those same stream processors are used when rendering, say, an OpenGL app, aren't they? They must be, because dedicated pixel and vertex shaders no longer exist on the card. In fact, you can see a huge increase in performance in DirectX 9 games when upgrading to a card that uses stream processors instead of set pixel/vertex shaders, like cards based on nVidia's G80 chipset. So, I don't think it is really fair to credit Microsoft's rendering API for the natural advancement of hardware architecture.
slybriAug 16, 2007
One day Vista will work properly and we'll all have cheap DX10 cards and all new PC games will take advantage of DX10. But that day is not today.Question is, will that day come before developers completely abandon PC gaming for consoles?
zingmanAug 19, 2007
I agree this article is anti-vista bulls**t.You should check DirectX 9.0 vs DirectX 10 screenshots<a class="user" href="http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9550">http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9550</a>And the Real life and Crysis engine comparison.<a class="user" href="http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8903">http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8903</a>
jheredOct 6, 2007
Vista and dx10 rule now that games are out for it. someone jumped the gun :P
drinnanMar 6, 2008
First of all, you don't buy the latest PS3 game then try run it on your PS2, then come onto every posting website you can find and rip into the PS3 game because it wont play on something that its not designed for do you? Well don't try and install Vista on an old machine that cant handle it then post about how bad vista is. After reading many posts, I'd like to know out of all the people that say they don't like vista, how many of them actually use vista day-in day-out. I have Vista and Xp on separate drives and much prefer Vista. When i first had to move from '98 to Xp, i didn't like Xp and so did alot of other people, but just ask all those people now what they would prefer to use, '98 or Xp? If you can't see where i am going with this then OPEN YOUR EYES! Sure many people do not want to change "change is bad" well i am sorry but change is good. I have only used Xp a couple of times since getting Vista. OK, I actually needed to use Xp at once because my ancient epson printer nozzle dried up and the maintenance program isn't vista compatible, why blame Vista for this? I blame Epson for not bringing out a program for my printer that runs under Vista. The printer still prints fine under vista (which is what i need it for), then i found out that vista was able to do a nozzle check and clean without using the epson program so byebye Xp.