• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

DX10 - G80 - MS VISTA

councilofdespai said:
Hence Vistas current RC2 credentials beg the question of the release date for this underperforming (current RC2 gaming benchmarks anyways) behemoth of a OS (its huge btw with 512 MB RAM used when having just booted) and the release of proper DX10 vista drivers and all of the debugging that DX10 will require.

Is the G80 and R600 going to be worth buying for at lease 3 to 6 months due to DX10 games also being delayed such as Crysis (or so I hear)?
Click to expand...

Vista is available to OEM's on the 8th November. Final drop. OEM's can start shipping to volume license customers ONLY from the 18th Nov., and to the public on the 30th Jan. Embargo is in place between 18th Nov and 30th. Jan. However if any OEM breaks the MS embargo, others will follow for sure. All depending on what fines MS are going to dish out. So I would not be surprised if you saw the box shifters shipping Vista this month. Same thing happened with XP - some OEM's shipped early and never got punished for it.
 
I'm starting to see what easyrider means now. If you have a bad card and you want to upgrade, may as well get something futureproof to avoid further spending on a new card later in the year. If you think about it; say you spend £180 now, then later in the year more dx10 titles come out (leaving dx9 dead in the water) you have to buy a new dx10 card (say the prices are cheaper) so say £240: 240 + 180 =£420. More expensive than a 8800 GTS.
 
im sorry but future proof doesnt mean much in the computer world , thats a very limited term indeed, there is always something bigger and better round the corner that can do somethign that the previous version didnt.

Futureproof = approx 6 months
 
councilofdespai said:
Just came to me that although you may own a DX10 card running Windows XP you are limited to DX9.0c only and only when Vista appears will you be doing the DX10 thang. Hence Vistas current RC2 credentials beg the question of the release date for this underperforming (current RC2 gaming benchmarks anyways) behemoth of a OS (its huge btw with 512 MB RAM used when having just booted) and the release of proper DX10 vista drivers and all of the debugging that DX10 will require.

Is the G80 and R600 going to be worth buying for at lease 3 to 6 months due to DX10 games also being delayed such as Crysis (or so I hear)?
Click to expand...

imho no. It may even be worth a 9 month wait, or at least until m$ collate all the user reported bugs and release the inevitable Vista service pack 1. :rolleyes:

The second gen DX10 cards should also be more reliable and efficient than the first generation and I assume the drivers would be pretty much bug free by then

I doubt that there will be many decent DX10 titles available until mid to late 2007. By "many decent" I mean well crafted titles that make full use of DX10, not something quickly cobbled together to take advantage of any initial lull in DX10 releases.

btw, I would run Vista as a second OS during it's first 6 months of life if m$ paid me to.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom