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DirectX 11.1 exclusive to Windows 8, Microsoft confirms
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Nothing like trying to force gamers over to windows 8. I have yet to hear good things about windows 8 so i am not to happy about the news. The plus side is dx11.1 probably won't be a huge step forward from dx11.
Windows 8 is pretty good, I like it and I don't see why some people are crying so much about it, it's all unfounded.
No you're no long allowed to claim you're yet to hear good things about it.
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Windows 8 is pretty good, I like it and I don't see why some people are crying so much about it, it's all unfounded.
No you're no long allowed to claim you're yet to hear good things about it.
That's good to hear then. I held on to xp until windows 7 arrived because i was put off of vista with the bad press.
The Vista situation was pretty funny too. I used that from the start and saw no issue with it either.
The real problem was how people and companies were trying to get it to run on computers that just about ran on XP.
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But the same computers that struggled with Vista would probably be quite fine with Windows 7 - that was the problem with Vista it seemed to be a bit of a beast.
I'm workng with a company at the moment who accidently upgraded a PC I use to Windows 7 from Windows XP instead of giving me a new PC. Funny thing is, it runs as well with WIndows 7 as it did with XP. Vista would have been a different story. ANd the PC is running the 64bit version of WIndows 7 with only 2 GB of memory installed and runs fine.
My 4 year old Dell XPS 1330 runs Windows 8 brilliantly. It came with Vista installed. It's run Windows 7 since and now Windows 8, both very well.
I think Microsoft has done very well with the latest Operating Systems(Win7 and Win8). Windows 8 people will find it takes a bit of time to get into but not too much. On a PC you can keep use of the tiled desktop minimal if you wish to (as I do). But it's an operating system for multiple device types - brilliant.
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DX11 was the final straw which eventually nudged me from XP to 7, but I'm still not convinced DX11 has added anything to my gaming experience. So this doesn't worry me in the slightest.
They will no doubt sponsor some big title to be 11.1 only, but it's unlikely to be a title I absolutely need to have, and most companies won't be willing to strangle their sales that way.
They will no doubt sponsor some big title to be 11.1 only, but it's unlikely to be a title I absolutely need to have, and most companies won't be willing to strangle their sales that way.
There's little to no difference between Vista and 7. Additionally, I'd always recommend some one re-install a fresh copy of Windows on a laptop/pre-built when they get it because without fail, I've always found OEM installed Windows to be broken in some way. It's just always bad regardless of what version of Windows it was.
2GB of RAM isn't a problem at all for general Windows use, and for an XP computer, it'd probably be considered a large amount of RAM for the average XP PC.
The problem with it is that XP was used for such a long amount of time that there's a MASSIVE gulf between the sort of average PCs that were around when XP originally came out, and the average PCs that were around just before Vista's release.
Vista did have more demanding requirements for PCs than XP of course, but loads of people ignored (as did OEMs) and just installed it anyway. When Vista came out, I installed it on a PC that was more than good enough for it and it was fine, I only moved to Windows 7 because I preferred the tweaks they'd made to the user interface and the "super bar".
I moved to Windows 8 from 7 for the same reasons I moved from Vista to 7 really. Nice small tweaks that improve the user experience but make a big difference. The new task manager is big for me, as well as the new file transfer dialogue. I even prefer the new start screen, it's quicker for me to find and open things.
^^ Tesselation look great on DX11 capable cards
It looks very good, the problem is that its use is often abused.
There's no way anyone could forget nVidia's early Vista drivers.
Can anyone say "Class Action Lawsuit"?
Yes the drivers were fixed by the time you claimed your new laptop on house insurance, or by the time you RMA'd your pile of ash formerly known as a 590
The laptop GPUs was a completely separate issue
Windows 8 is pretty good, I like it and I don't see why some people are crying so much about it, it's all unfounded.
No you're no long allowed to claim you're yet to hear good things about it.
Well put
Nothing wrong with Windows 8 at all. Even my mother's using it! I didn't even have to force her either. I happened to mention it was coming out and she TOLD me she'd have a copy
As for the DirectX thing, I don't see the problem. Just because XP's hung around for more than a decade, doesn't mean all other Operating Systems have to. Microsoft always used to be on a three year cycle before XP, and the only reason XP stayed so long was because of Vista's poor takeup. Linux also has a finite support lifetime, and I'd assume OSX does (although I know slightly less than nothing about Apple's support lifecycle).
You can't expect developers to continue supporting *old* stuff forever. Technology moves on. Either move with it or resign yourself to the fact you're probably going to be very disappointed quite a lot of the time.