Will M$ ever make a Gaming OS?

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I was woundering, will microsoft ever make an os deticated to gaming, but that happens to run internet and email too as an add on kinda, but that cpu usage & ram usage of the OS is reduced to max 100-200mb and 0.01 % cpu usage when idle, main concentration is is games alone and drivers??

Reason I ask is because vista is more of a hog than xp, and a lot of people have lost a lot of FPS due to upgrading, why won't M$ make an os that does the opposite: boost performance... ? :mad:
 
It would make sense to make a game mode of some sort, but micro$oft would rather waste money on phone systems for product activation chasing up people who try to reinstall the oem os they already paid for after they change their mobo instead of improving their os so people actually have an incentive to buy it. If I was a shareholder of m$ I would be furious they were wasting money on such things.

I don't think pc hardware is that optimised for games anyway. Shame really because they could make loads of money from selling cpus specifically designed for games.
 
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snowdog said:
Reason I ask is because vista is more of a hog than xp, and a lot of people have lost a lot of FPS due to upgrading, why won't M$ make an os that does the opposite: boost performance... ? :mad:
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actually thats not vista thats the reason why games are worse than in XP, its the drivers.
 
Energize said:
It would make sense to make a game mode of some sort, but micro$oft would rather waste money on phone systems for product activation chasing up people who try to reinstall the oem os they already paid for after they change their mobo instead of improving their os so people actually have an incentive to buy it. If I was a shareholder of m$ I would be furious they were wasting money on such things.

I don't think pc hardware is that optimised for games anyway. Shame really because they could make loads of money from selling cpus specifically designed for games.
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I agree, wasting time and money on trying to discourage people from stealing their products instead of coming up with another OS, completely incompatable with any current applications or games for people to steal as well...

Sheesh, can you believe the gall of those guys... :rolleyes:
 
There are modified versions of XP, set up for gaming. One is called Warhead. Pulse on these forums tested it out, and it spanked Vista in games, but was fairly similar to XP. It only out performed XP on desktop use... which sort of defeated the point.
 
Am I the only one that immediately starts ignoring people that think it's oh-so-amusing to put a $ symbol into the company name?
 
Athanor said:
I agree, wasting time and money on trying to discourage people from stealing their products instead of coming up with another OS, completely incompatable with any current applications or games for people to steal as well...

Sheesh, can you believe the gall of those guys... :rolleyes:
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:rolleyes:
It's utter stupidity to have an activation system where employees give out codes to unlicensed people and when there are so many ways to bypass the system. At least if they made a gaming system at a reasonable cost people might buy it. It isn't hard to understand which is best for profits really.
 
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Hi all,

They are trying to incorporate gaming into vista; they have the game launcher in vista, games for windows and live for windows and Direct X 10. We just need to let the drivers for vista mature a bit and it will be a great OS.

Microsoft no the PC gaming industry is massive and only going to get bigger or they would not be bothering with PC live and 360 cross platform games. PC graphics cards, physix are just going to come into their own with three way SLI and Xfire and I am sure MS know this.




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I don't see how you could make it any better, the processor time management in XP is very good and games will get enough CPU time if you're not running stupid amount of other CPU intensive apps in the backgound (obviously the load will depend on the processor and the threads/cores it has).

As someone has pointed out, you can get some cut down XP versions (basically nlited) but the stuff you rip out doesn't make it any better as they didn't take up any processor time in the first place.
 
XD-3 said:
Hi all,

They are trying to incorporate gaming into vista; they have the game launcher in vista, games for windows and live for windows and Direct X 10. We just need to let the drivers for vista mature a bit and it will be a great OS.

Microsoft no the PC gaming industry is massive and only going to get bigger or they would not be bothering with PC live and 360 cross platform games. PC graphics cards, physix are just going to come into their own with three way SLI and Xfire and I am sure MS know this.




XD-3
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I thought those were good steps toward gaming until I realised dx10 was just a ploy to force people to upgrade to vista, and the "games for windows" logo just seems to be put on every new game that runs on windows which kind of makes me wonder what the point of it is.
 
snowdog said:
I was woundering, will microsoft ever make an os deticated to gaming, but that happens to run internet and email too as an add on kinda, but that cpu usage & ram usage of the OS is reduced to max 100-200mb and 0.01 % cpu usage when idle, main concentration is is games alone and drivers??

Reason I ask is because vista is more of a hog than xp, and a lot of people have lost a lot of FPS due to upgrading, why won't M$ make an os that does the opposite: boost performance... ? :mad:
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Someone just needs to make a Linux distro that handles exes and windows games perfectly :)
 
Energize said:
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It's utter stupidity to have an activation system where employees give out codes to unlicensed people and when there are so many ways to bypass the system. At least if they made a gaming system at a reasonable cost people might buy it. It isn't hard to understand which is best for profits really.
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Do you know how effective the Microsoft Activation and licensing system is? Do you know how much money it brings them from unlicensed products that are re-licensed?

How can you comment on how the system is losing MS money and that making cheaper products would make them profit when you don't know how effective the system is in the first place.

Microsofts gaming platforms are XP, Vista and 360. They don't and won't produce a specific gaming OS for PC's. There is no point.

Linux is a long way away from true gaming support. For games to work properly on Linux developers need to start writing games for Linux. At the moment there is no demand for that.
 
Vista and the Xbox 360 are Microsoft's gaming platforms.

Yes gaming on Vista can be a little clunky at the moment but it's getting better all the time as drivers are improved.

It won't be long until we start seeing games run faster on Vista than they do on XP. Vista is, under the hood, built to be a stupidly fast gaming OS.
 
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Am I the only one that immediately starts ignoring people that think it's oh-so-amusing to put a $ symbol into the company name?
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No, not just you.
As soon as I see either M$, Micro$oft or Microshaft I immediately treat the post at the maturity level it deserves (around 10-12 year old) and if I'm going to reply I'll usually aim such a reply at somebody of that age.

Why anyone any older than that would type one of those three is just beyond me.
For some reason I imagine them as the people who still run away from girls and draw "nobs" on other people's exercise books.
 
am i the only one that isn't having any problems running games and having full speed game play in vista?

vista is great and no i am not a fanboy.. so don't even think about saying it..
 
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