Alan Wake = Vista Only

BKUK · 7 Jan 2008 at 15:26

Not sure how many of you know about this... but I don't like it personally! Looks like Microsoft need something to inspire vista sales and tbh Alan Wake can probably do that!

What does everyone think?

Nymins · 7 Jan 2008 at 15:29

It'll be cracked to work on XP a week after release imo.

khimbar · 7 Jan 2008 at 15:39

Nymins said:
It'll be cracked to work on XP a week after release imo.

So you think it'll take a while then?

West · 7 Jan 2008 at 15:40

Nymins said:
It'll be cracked to work on XP a week after release imo.

z0mbi3 · 7 Jan 2008 at 15:41

Nymins said:
It'll be cracked to work on XP a week before release imo.

BKUK · 7 Jan 2008 at 15:55

Sweet, I know theres always a way around these thing these days, good to know for sure!

Anim · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:12

Mario galaxies doesnt work on my SNES

RaidenGB · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:14

Anim said:
Mario galaxies doesnt work on my SNES

What on gods earth has that got to do with Alan Wake

marc2003 · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:16

BKUK said:
Looks like Microsoft need something to inspire vista sales and tbh Alan Wake can probably do that!

what a load of tosh. vista hasn't been doing too badly and the sales of this game will be a drop in the ocean compared to overall vista sales.

stoofa · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:17

BKUK said:
Sweet, I know theres always a way around these thing these days, good to know for sure!

There isn't "Always" a way around these things.
If there was then I'm sure somebody would have hacked DirectX 10 to work under XP.
There is absolutely no way anybody can know for sure.

Frapple · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:17

RaidenGB said:
What on gods earth has that got to do with Alan Wake

Woooosh

*does hand over head motion*

Bean0 · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:21

Anim said:
Mario galaxies doesnt work on my SNES

Gimpymoo · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:27

Anim said:
Mario galaxies doesnt work on my SNES

Tell me about it, I can not even get the disc to fit into my Atari Lynx

Pulsar_GTI · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:38

If there was then I'm sure somebody would have hacked DirectX 10 to work under XP.

Crysis was hacked to have dx10 features in dx9

LoadsaMoney · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:47

Dx10 can't be hacked as its hardware, Alan Wake is a game, so software, and it will be made to work on XP before the game comes out, just like Halo2 was.

Indy500 · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:48

Alan Wake isn't DX10 to my knowledge, it was demo'ed on a Q6600 and a 7800GTX.

Emlyn_Dewar · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:48

But it wasn't using DX10, just the DX10 ultra high details. (so late, re: crysis)
Was there not a thread about this last year? Think there were 2 camps, those who were outraged thought it a hideous crime, worse than terrorism... And also, those who didn't really care. We all have to "upgrade" some time.

Indy500 · 7 Jan 2008 at 16:49

If the OEMs didn't all switch to Vista I doubt the sales would be anywhere near what they are at the moment.

Hobgoblin · 7 Jan 2008 at 17:01

you could say the same for virtually every OS out there though. once the big companys sell X with a machine its sales improves. hardly something worth mentioning really

Indy500 · 7 Jan 2008 at 17:02

Hobgoblin said:
you could say the same for virtually every OS out there though. once the big companys sell X with a machine its sales improves. hardly something worth mentioning really

Right, but XP has been around much longer than 95\98\ME were. The latter lasted around 2 years each before a new release, XP has been around since 2001.