arstechnica.com— What led to Microsoft's decision to make DirectX 10 exclusive to Windows Vista? I'll give you a hint: it wasn't completely based on marketing.
Feb 15, 2007View in Crawl 4
"""It doesn't technically waste CPU cycles; it wastes GPU cycles, and if you're not playing a game you're not using your GPU for anything anyway (Obviously, it's turned off when you are playing a game)."""I think you're mixing up your desktop technologies there - it most certainly does use extra CPU cycles - not a tiny amount either, quite a lot, as you can easily test for yourself.It may be using the GPU, but it's nothing like other technologies that do the drawing fully on the graphics card using graphics ram and free up CPU cycles that 2D drawing wastes - you will have less CPU and system free, and slower performance with desktop effects switched on in Vista.
"If not for DX10 gamers would see absolutely no reason to upgrade to vista. They desperately need people to adopt it. Vista is prolly gonna be the PS3 of microsoft."Well, I'm still waiting on my copy to arrive (sold out), and our weblogs are showing more vista connections than Mac and Linux combined, I reckon they'll be ok :)
"you really think an x2300le, or even the 2600 in most cases, will beable to run with the dx10 features enabled? that's laughable."It can't be labeled as a DX card unless it runs all features on board. Unlike previous versions of Direct X this is a hard policy.
It's not quite the same - the 360 doesn't use Direct X as we know it, because it doesn't need to, there is one set of hardware, they don't need the same abstraction.As such, the 360 does not support DX10, however it is capable of everything that DX10 is capable of.
Stop it with the "Linux will never be a mainstream desktop OS" and "Linux is not ready for prime time" already, people.Millions of people already use it as their main desktop OS, and it works for them just as well as Windows. Maybe you should give it a try instead of believing what Microsoft wants you to think.
"The faster search engine is one of the things that was stripped. "No, the improved indexing service and search engine were part of the final release. WinFS was a seperate technology that was targeted to run above NTFS and the default search, providing a larger degree of meta-data to the search engine with hooks back into the filesystem.
How much do you think the WINE project could do with a donation to the amount that a Windows Vista Ultimate license costs?If I find that I do need DirectX 10, that'll be how I go about getting it.
blackadderiiiFeb 15, 2007
"""It doesn't technically waste CPU cycles; it wastes GPU cycles, and if you're not playing a game you're not using your GPU for anything anyway (Obviously, it's turned off when you are playing a game)."""I think you're mixing up your desktop technologies there - it most certainly does use extra CPU cycles - not a tiny amount either, quite a lot, as you can easily test for yourself.It may be using the GPU, but it's nothing like other technologies that do the drawing fully on the graphics card using graphics ram and free up CPU cycles that 2D drawing wastes - you will have less CPU and system free, and slower performance with desktop effects switched on in Vista.
muldyFeb 15, 2007
It's marketing, i don't care what they say.It will run on linux, with wine, just give it some time.XP? "it's technically impossible!" ... shure!
salmonmooseFeb 16, 2007
"If not for DX10 gamers would see absolutely no reason to upgrade to vista. They desperately need people to adopt it. Vista is prolly gonna be the PS3 of microsoft."Well, I'm still waiting on my copy to arrive (sold out), and our weblogs are showing more vista connections than Mac and Linux combined, I reckon they'll be ok :)
salmonmooseFeb 16, 2007
"you really think an x2300le, or even the 2600 in most cases, will beable to run with the dx10 features enabled? that's laughable."It can't be labeled as a DX card unless it runs all features on board. Unlike previous versions of Direct X this is a hard policy.
salmonmooseFeb 16, 2007
It's not quite the same - the 360 doesn't use Direct X as we know it, because it doesn't need to, there is one set of hardware, they don't need the same abstraction.As such, the 360 does not support DX10, however it is capable of everything that DX10 is capable of.
srg13Feb 16, 2007
Stop it with the "Linux will never be a mainstream desktop OS" and "Linux is not ready for prime time" already, people.Millions of people already use it as their main desktop OS, and it works for them just as well as Windows. Maybe you should give it a try instead of believing what Microsoft wants you to think.
cquinndFeb 17, 2007
"The faster search engine is one of the things that was stripped. "No, the improved indexing service and search engine were part of the final release. WinFS was a seperate technology that was targeted to run above NTFS and the default search, providing a larger degree of meta-data to the search engine with hooks back into the filesystem.
ethana2Oct 30, 2007
How much do you think the WINE project could do with a donation to the amount that a Windows Vista Ultimate license costs?If I find that I do need DirectX 10, that'll be how I go about getting it.
person1873Jan 23, 2008
VIVA LE LINUX REVELUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!