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Catalyst 9.12 RC2 BETA 8.68 (Win XP x86/x64)

kylew said:
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I'm looking forward to they day they stop supporting XP.
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Steam Hardware Survey for October still says 50% market share. Still quite a way off.

XP - 50.01%
Vista x86 - 23.24%
Vista x64 - 10.99%
7 x64 - 9.54%
7 x86 - 4.79%.
 
Vista I could understand the need to stick with xp, but if most xp users gave 7 a chance, I think they would be pleasantly surprised. Hopefully get the official early december time with any luck. They'll want a good start for the 5970.
 
ghost101 said:
Steam Hardware Survey for October still says 50% market share. Still quite a way off.

XP - 50.01%
Vista x86 - 23.24%
Vista x64 - 10.99%
7 x64 - 9.54%
7 x86 - 4.79%.
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What's some what surprising is the difference between 64 and 32 bit win 7 users, it's actually double!
 
Ritsugamesh said:
Vista I could understand the need to stick with xp, but if most xp users gave 7 a chance, I think they would be pleasantly surprised. Hopefully get the official early december time with any luck. They'll want a good start for the 5970.
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Most people never even used vista before they passed comment on it.

"my friend said it's crap, so it is" is one of the biggest reasons it got such a bad reputation.

With the way hardware is now though, there really is no need for XP for anything.

Win 7 provides a much better user experience, and then on the hardware side, XP simply can't support the most modern of PCs.

A 5970 is a great example, 4GBs of RAM, that's all XP is able to address, nevermind the system RAM.

XP's had its day, it was years ago now.
 
The Steam hardware survey is always quite interesting - given that the majority of Steam gamers have low-mid spec hardware, it's surprising to see the rapid adoption of Windows 7 - it'll soon have wiped out Vista altogether and start eating into XP's market share:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
 
Martini1991 said:
I hate XP users.
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Lol! I actually hate MS more for not retro-fitting DirectX 10 into XP - just think how many more DirectX 10/10.1 games we'd have now - funny how they launched the whole 'Games for Windows' platform saying how'd they rejuvenate PC gaming and then because of that one dumb-ass move (amongst many others) they ended up fragmenting it even more :(
 
Aegis said:
The Steam hardware survey is always quite interesting - given that the majority of Steam gamers have low-mid spec hardware, it's surprising to see the rapid adoption of Windows 7 - it'll soon have wiped out Vista altogether and start eating into XP's market share:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
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Around half have hd 3870/8800 and above. I'd call that lower-mid to high end, or actual cards meant for gaming. The rest are probably people that play old games on older/weaker systems.

A fair bit also have hd 4800 series or gtx 260/275/280/285/295. If you include the 9800gtx+ (since its about the same as the hd 4850) in this bracket, it increases even more (although the survey lumps them with the 9800gt).
 
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Aegis said:
Lol! I actually hate MS more for not retro-fitting DirectX 10 into XP - just think how many more DirectX 10/10.1 games we'd have now - funny how they launched the whole 'Games for Windows' platform saying how'd they rejuvenate PC gaming and then because of that one dumb-ass move (amongst many others) they ended up fragmenting it even more :(
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They can't put DX10 into XP for the millionth time!

Completely different driver model!
 
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