Battlefield 3 no XP support

titaniumx3 · 11 Jul 2011 at 17:06

I've never had any problems with XP and think it's a decent OS (at least in terms of Microsoft's past efforts) but to put it simply, Windows 7 is better in pretty much every way.

Yes, there are a few differences in the graphical interface, but most of it is pretty minor and if you know how to use XP, you'll quickly get accustomed to Win 7 within a few days of use. Also the vast majority of changes and tweaks are fairly logical changes and don't encroach on the end user experience.

With regards to general desktop performance and game performance, I didn't notice any decrease coming from XP (using the same hardware). Using Windows 7 feels just as responsive as XP despite all the added graphical effects, plus some games run slightly faster for me.

Win 7 > XP

There's really no arguement here, expect from a tiny minority who think that their niche requirements in an OS is representative of the entire population.

RedStarRiot · 11 Jul 2011 at 17:15

Well its about time games started to move away from dx9. They cant support it forever. even microsoft want to stop supporting it and never intended to support it this long themselves. Tech moves on and its high time we say laters to xp. I have it on my laptop still and feels like a chore using it.

orderoftheflame · 11 Jul 2011 at 17:15

Dg.

Out of interest, how much system/video ram do you have in your machine, and how much is it actually allowing you to use?

hideki · 11 Jul 2011 at 17:20

Its funny, I remember when Windows 95 appeared and dos based games were in the majority. While pure dos has less overhead and arguably ran the games better especially in the days of limited memory, an operating system does more than run games.

jonneymendoza · 11 Jul 2011 at 17:26

And this discussion still continues after i and another pointed how OLD this news is......

QlimaxUK · 11 Jul 2011 at 17:28

RedStarRiot said:
Well its about time games started to move away from dx9. They cant support it forever. even microsoft want to stop supporting it and never intended to support it this long themselves. Tech moves on and its high time we say laters to xp. I have it on my laptop still and feels like a chore using it.

well then if this is true they should have supported dx10/11 into XP then instead of trying to 'bully' users into upgrading :mad:

EDIT: ok then its just MICROSOFT's GREED as usual

and remember that 'windows' is only a software interface so using XP does not mean you have a '10 year old system' its all about the hardware (and if your graphics card supports DX10)

~>Dg<~ · 11 Jul 2011 at 17:28

B&W said:
not for long, enjoy your old horrible XP while i can play my DX11 Games on a better OS.

so will i but what great dx11 games will you be playing ?

what ground breaking dx11 games will you be playing fine sir

you wont see mainstream dx11 games for at least another couple of years and thats if it doesnt get passed by like 10 did.

if the games companies dont go with it its useless or almost useless

anyway enough of posting in here bf time

RedStarRiot · 11 Jul 2011 at 17:28

jonneymendoza said:
And this discussion still continues after i and another pointed how OLD this news is......

Yeah im fully aware how old the news is but the debate has taken a turn and its more about dx9 support in general. read

RedStarRiot · 11 Jul 2011 at 17:31

QlimaxUK said:
well then if this is true they should have supported dx10/11 into XP then instead of trying to 'bully' users into upgrading, its typical bill gates moaning he dosn't have enough money as usual

and remember that 'windows' is only a software interface so using XP does not mean you have a '10 year old system' its all about the hardware (and if your graphics card supports DX10)

Do you realise how old windows xp is? seriously get a grip its not about bullying you into upgrading at all. Also it is about the os as it doesnt support the new cards not the other way round.

kmufc77 · 11 Jul 2011 at 17:33

Which is the right call,XP is over 10 yrs old for crying out loud!

B&W · 11 Jul 2011 at 18:00

~>Dg<~ said:
so will i but what great dx11 games will you be playing ?

what ground breaking dx11 games will you be playing fine sir

you wont see mainstream dx11 games for at least another couple of years and thats if it doesnt get passed by like 10 did.

if the games companies dont go with it its useless or almost useless

anyway enough of posting in here bf time

ill be playing Battlefield 3 DX11 On Windows 7 oh but you won't, your on XP.

Squark · 11 Jul 2011 at 18:03

I thought no XP support had been known for months and months now

Dg are you able to form a coherent sentence? Decyphering your posts in order to attempt to figure out what on earth you're saying is a complete pain.

QlimaxUK · 11 Jul 2011 at 18:05

B&W said:
ill be playing Battlefield 3 DX11 On Windows 7 oh but you won't, your on XP.

i can always dual boot if i really want to play BF3 but xp will always be my main OS, although last time i had an XP/win7 boot 'something' went wrong and both OS's ran really slow

I FULLY blame win7 for this fault (opinion is not biased

)

Davepen · 11 Jul 2011 at 18:15

~>Dg<~ said:
so will i but what great dx11 games will you be playing ?

what ground breaking dx11 games will you be playing fine sir

you wont see mainstream dx11 games for at least another couple of years and thats if it doesnt get passed by like 10 did.

if the games companies dont go with it its useless or almost useless

anyway enough of posting in here bf time

Umm... Battlefield 3? Even if playing in DX10 mode, you still wont be able to play it on XP....

MobyDick · 11 Jul 2011 at 18:16

Another reason to upgrade from my 7900GTX

LeJosh · 11 Jul 2011 at 18:21

~>Dg<~ said:
so will i but what great dx11 games will you be playing ?

what ground breaking dx11 games will you be playing fine sir

you wont see mainstream dx11 games for at least another couple of years and thats if it doesnt get passed by like 10 did.

if the games companies dont go with it its useless or almost useless

anyway enough of posting in here bf time

I hope you're not using 32-bit at least.

Especially if you have more than 3.5GB total memory.

RedStarRiot · 11 Jul 2011 at 18:27

QlimaxUK said:
i can always dual boot if i really want to play BF3 but xp will always be my main OS, although last time i had an XP/win7 boot 'something' went wrong and both OS's ran really slow I FULLY blame win7 for this fault (opinion is not biased )

will always be your main operating system? thats now a little bit silly :rolleyes:

iamTakeo · 11 Jul 2011 at 18:31

A streamlined XP system on modern hardware is a solid OS.

orderoftheflame · 11 Jul 2011 at 18:36

iamTakeo said:
A streamlined XP system on modern hardware is a solid OS.

Apart from the fact that "modern" hardware almost certainly means 4gb+ of ram and at least a 756mb - 1gb ram video card or more.

Why would you run an OS that guarantees that you'll never be able to use all of the hardware your running it on?

How many people here are running 2gb ram or less on their "modern" systems?

LeJosh said:
I hope you're not using 32-bit at least.

Especially if you have more than 3.5GB total memory.

I already asked how much memory he's using, it got glossed over for some reason....

HangTime · 11 Jul 2011 at 18:47

gropingmantis said:
About time really. Dx9 should be gone by now. Do you guys gaming on xp still use IDE HDDs? Its called progress.

I'm still using an IDE HD (and DVDRW for that matter). Doesn't have much bearing in gaming unlike XP.

As for DX9 there's nothing wrong with it IMO, plenty of quality games out there using DX9, and I reckon as long as the current generation of consoles stick around that will continue to be the case.