Wow phoenix could you be a little more patronising and full of ---- please because that was subtle it went right over my head. "There's never been so many troubles with any other windows OS." right ok m8 if you say so i can remember a hell of a lot of people and organisations that had big problems with xp and as for windows 95 that kept techies going for months and months after release. This is what really annoys me people trying to sound like they are an authority on something and then spout complete and utter rubbish about something.
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DX11 to be announced in 2~ weeks, nvidia to talk about it too...
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XP was widely criticised right up to, and after, SP1.
Yeah, okay mister. I disabled countless services and other rubbish every time I did a fresh install of Windows XP, you have no idea how much of a God-send nLite was for me.
Rose-tinted glasses unless you have some statistics.
I know what's going on in my system, Vista runs fine for me. That's not to say I don't have to tweak and optimise certain things, but to say that Windows XP was not the same (or worse) is just a total farce in my eyes.
Totally generalising, blanket statement. Did you do a poll?
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Vista is KICKASS with Vlite, I'm using 22-23% ram on boot compared to 28% before streamline and I've even got SP1 streamlined into it!
So all these screenies of Windows 7 that looks like Vista? That basically it? Surely if someone got hold of a leaked copy of Windows 7 it would be compatible with everything or is it a rewrite of the kernal and everything and using a lot less memory?
I rekon DX11 will be a failure like DX10 or maybe they will have learnt.
So all these screenies of Windows 7 that looks like Vista? That basically it? Surely if someone got hold of a leaked copy of Windows 7 it would be compatible with everything or is it a rewrite of the kernal and everything and using a lot less memory?
I rekon DX11 will be a failure like DX10 or maybe they will have learnt.
Windows 7 is really touting interface more than anything. Microsoft has been going on about making multi-touch support one of the primary interfaces of the OS (along with standard keyboard and mouse configurations I'd presume).
We're coming to the hilt with graphics IMO. Just look at Crysis, tried to look as good as possible but ended up an un-fun, buggy mess. So much so that Crytek said that in Crysis Warhead, Crysis's medium is the same as Warhead's high.
Also, it used to be that everyone changed OS every one/two ish years, but because of the massive delay of Vista everyone got used to XP and slowed that cycle. Now Microsoft are starting to speed it up again (with newer DirectX and OSes) people just won't have it because what they have does all they want. Atleast, that's what I think.
My 2 cents.
Also, it used to be that everyone changed OS every one/two ish years, but because of the massive delay of Vista everyone got used to XP and slowed that cycle. Now Microsoft are starting to speed it up again (with newer DirectX and OSes) people just won't have it because what they have does all they want. Atleast, that's what I think.
My 2 cents.
Crawl back under your rock Seldarine, or go back to the Inquirer and stay there.
If you like a faster OS why dont you just use Windows 3.1 or DOS. I hear they boot up 5x faster, wow they MUST be better!!11
Vista is faster than XP for nearly everything i do anyway. But you wouldn't know about this, as with most anti-vista idiots they have never even used the OS.
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We're coming to the hilt with graphics IMO. Just look at Crysis, tried to look as good as possible but ended up an un-fun, buggy mess. So much so that Crytek said that in Crysis Warhead, Crysis's medium is the same as Warhead's high.
Also, it used to be that everyone changed OS every one/two ish years, but because of the massive delay of Vista everyone got used to XP and slowed that cycle. Now Microsoft are starting to speed it up again (with newer DirectX and OSes) people just won't have it because what they have does all they want. Atleast, that's what I think.
My 2 cents.
So everyone will be like WOW warhead is running way faster than crysis as they'll be blinded by the FPS to notice the actual graphics quality, you'll have high, then very high as crysis high, then ultra high as crysis very high, not bad might have some performance fixes in there too.
Vista is a disaster is it and here i have been using it for over a year with zero problems and actually finding my system more stable then it was under xp how stupid do i feel now finding out from someone that it is so bad i will uninstall it immediately.
I completely understand that there have been problems with Vista, but the amount of people that still to this day put it down without ever using it is ridiculous.
I've only had two problems with Vista, the first is that the slow transfer speeds - even after SP1 it is still not up to XP speed.
The second is the inability to get any of my Vista machines to see each other on my network - although to be fair I haven't spent that long trying to get it to work.
But it's not been as simple as XP
There are problems with vista i would never say there wasn't but are they that bad vista deserves the reputation it has no there not. People bang on about xp yeah thats ok it took till sp2 for most of xp's annoying problems to be sorted out and even then some weren't. I just get tired of hearing people that have little or no experience of vista constantly telling everyone they should avoid it as though they're an expert on it when the truth is they took one look and couldn't be bothered to stick with it. One fact no one can deny is that vista will be responsible for getting more people onto 64 bit then xp ever was or ever going too and that has to be a good thing.
The second is the inability to get any of my Vista machines to see each other on my network - although to be fair I haven't spent that long trying to get it to work.
But it's not been as simple as XP
i only have vista on 1 of my machines and it doesnt have any problems finding the other xp machines.
as for crysis.....i finally got round to playing it. seems to run much better now and is playable on very high settings(using xp cvar hack).
was unplayable with my 8800gts(640) but runs fine on my 117 quid graphics card....have to say the 4850 is an amazing card for the price.
i know of a office that uses vista. so that blows your 0% right out of the window.
But the accountant is doing her nut as there aren't any drivers available for any of the installed printers !!....
Well that's the problem we are having, more hassle than it's worth on a work machine that spends it's life on some garage software and Sage...
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Actually, they weren't slower than XP most of the time, the box stayed on the screen longer in vista because it goes when the file write is completed, rather than the file caching (as in XP).
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx
No but Vista is going to be the standard in a very short amount of time, the private adoption of Vista is already very high, so DX10 will be pushed a lot more than it has been so far.
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its not just microsoft, in every single aspect of every single industry things are getting progressively more, well rubbish.
over simplified illogical madness, made by idiots.
add 1 new good useful thing..... then remove 10 previous useful things in past version, and replace them with crap, they must talk about this.
and FYI ive made a promise to beat the **** out of any programmer i meet in a bar by chance so make sure you dont ever tell anyone in a bar that you work for any software/game company
over simplified illogical madness, made by idiots.
add 1 new good useful thing..... then remove 10 previous useful things in past version, and replace them with crap, they must talk about this.
and FYI ive made a promise to beat the **** out of any programmer i meet in a bar by chance so make sure you dont ever tell anyone in a bar that you work for any software/game company
I agree, that's why I am gonna get it installed soon.
I think I am in the middle of the pack, the early adopters have been there for ages and there will still be some people who don't upgrade to it for ages but the biggest influx of Vista x64 users will be over the next several months if everything I am reading is true.
Still not impressed at Microsoft from trying to cut support for XP, I'm sure I read it's not gonna be on sale for much longer?
Anyway back on topic . . .
I have no ideal what the difference between DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 and DirectX 11 is?
