lol does anything currently utalise all 4 cores?
i lost interest in lost planet, i couldnt stay alive long enough, and yeah that was a fantastic looking game.
Lost Planet is worth a look if you want a shooter. I picked it up for £7 delivered (shouldn't be hard to find if you look), and looks stunning in places. A few screenies below from the DX10 version:
A bit blurry in places, but there is a lot of post-processing involved, and it really does look gorgeous when moving, especially when you have some of the larger bugs attacking you![]()
Some gamers have been misled by the Crysis demo’s Advanced System Options, which don’t allow you to select the Very High settings in Windows XP, even though you can in Vista. This implies that the effects require a DirectX 10 renderer, but gamers over at the Crysis-Online forums have found that you can edit the game’s config files to force on the Very High effects in Windows XP, and it apparently works.
Does this mean you can actually run DirectX 10 games on Windows XP? Nope, but it does mean that the Crysis demo uses DirectX 9
That was just unlocking certain effects which they had locked into DX10, there reasoning being only high end PC users would even be able to use them (people with the high end DX10 cards). With Crysis Warhead they gave the options to everybody. I dont think Dx10 has ever been succesfully put onto XP.
Id wait for Windows 7. Theres a positive buzz about it, and it sounds like what Vista should have been.
You could say that, Windows 7 really does look to most like a fixed up Vista, which annoys me as a Vista user (shouldnt have to pay for fixes yadayada). I wouldnt know about the driver support sorry.