Sorry FatRakoon but you need to take of your tinted glasses, they way you post and constantly bash Vista is narrow minded there are thousands of people and hundreds on here running Vista 100% perfectly, just because you are having better performance with XP then Vista it’s the same for everyone? No my machines are much quicker ruining Vista than XP.
Sorry, I dont mean to be.
I have Vista running on 2 PCs on my LAN and its running brilliantly. I am however, wanting to run Vista64 and yet every time I try it, there is always something that just wont go right, and I need my main PC to run 100% and XP64 does this for me.
Im not narrow minded, sure I post as if I am, but check out some other posts, I do often backup Vista, it depends on the why for's - some things vista deserves to be applauded and other things Im sorry, but vista should be taken to the back of the shed and shot... Swings and round-abouts.
However... I am iun a very lucky position of having more PCs than anyone could really need to have ( 14 so far ) and they are all fairly well spec'ed and up to date ( although none are high end, all will play Crisis / Quake 4 etc just fine ) and in all cases, XP64 is faster at gaming than Vista64 is.
This will never happen. The amount of development time and cost to bodge DX10 to XP would be astronomical and would also undermine the overall MS strategy.
Yes it would undermine everythign about MS' strategy, thats a given, but there is also too much talk about it to completely ignore the possibility...
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I feel that at this time, DX10 does not offer us THAT much more benefit and DX9 is still more than capable of getting more features... I have compared DX9 and 10 on UT3, and COH and in COH the differences are cool ( if a little useless ) , in UT3 the differences are... Erm... Water looks a bit choppier maybe? so for me, DX10 is not at this time a worry or a threat to XP.
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Hello FatRakoon, sorry for snipping your post but I did read it all. Now, I can only really give you my opinions of Windows Vista from using it and I have personally noticed that the things I have mentioned, overall, my user experience is a lot better compared to Windows XP. However, I can also understand this may not be the case for everyone that has used Windows Vista.
Very neutral post and I agree with you.
When Vista runs nice its unbeatable ,just the same with XP and hell, with 98/Me too ( I put 2K in line with XP here as I also love 2K ).
I want to go with Vista I really do, but it just hasnt been right for me, so a couple of days ago, I went back to XP64 and all *** problems I had with Vista, have once again, all gone.... In another month or so, I will have yet another go wit hVista, this is what I have been doing for almost a year now.
What I did do just the other day however, is slipstreamed SP1 into a Disk using vlite and I burned the disk ready to install... However... Vista seees my HDs differently to the Mobo and Windows XP does.
My Mobo and XP sees them like this :-
C: D: E: F: G:and so on right!
Well, Vista sees them like this :-
D: E: F: C: G:
Last time I had to physically disconnecty the drives because using the BIOS to disable them, Vista re-enables them, plus, withotu physically disconnecting them, it wont let me use the raptor ( my C: ) to boot from, and I was not bothered to take the case out and go in to physically disconnect everythign just to install Vista and so I went with XP64 again.
The case is a TT Armour, and I have 5 HDs, 4DVDs and a LiveDrive and it weighs a ton!
The above doesn't actually suggest that was Microsoft's line of thinking at all. The release times from previous Windows operating system have always been within a couple of years of each other and Windows 7 will be no different. The gap between Windows XP and Windows Vista was abnormal and it's development time was much larger which obviously relates to releasing the operating system a fair bit later because of the amount of changes within Windows Vista and in such, being a technology based release.
No, but MS are hardly going to admit that they messed up with Vista, are they.
AS for the time frame, this is crud...
WPreviously, the gap has been small due to the fact that the OS/s and the changes have been small... NT4 to 2K was a big jump, but XP was nto a big jump... People assume it was when they went from 98 to XP, but those of use who went through 2000 saw that XP was pretty much only 2K with eye candy, but Vista was a big jump. it took longer to develop and the sheer size of it should take years and it has done... Windows 7 is going to look and feel suspiciously like vista and that only means one thing... They are tarting Vista up to repair all the problems they caused with Vista and giving it a new name.
( Dont worry, Im not serious but I also recon its close to the truth in many ways )
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PB and Vista don't get along in SOF2 
