Windows Vista.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 05-21-2006, 00:01

And this is assuming Vista... works.

**orangat** · 05-21-2006, 00:45

Vista will run DX10 while XP will not. Sooner or later every gamer will be forced to upgrade.

**Beirut** · 05-21-2006, 12:30

The only reason I care about Vista is because two honking new flightsims are coded for it.

(By the time they are released, I will have the frangazeling PCI-E style rig Mr. Orangat so enthusiastically speaks of.)

**orangat** · 05-21-2006, 20:01

Originally Posted by Beirut

The only reason I care about Vista is because two honking new flightsims are coded for it.

(By the time they are released, I will have the frangazeling PCI-E style rig Mr. Orangat so enthusiastically speaks of.)

lol it wasn't my fault you went with socket 754 and agp scarcely a year ago.

**Lemur** · 05-26-2006, 16:06

Originally Posted by orangat

Vista will run DX10 while XP will not. Sooner or later every gamer will be forced to upgrade.

Well, that's certainly the threat from MicroSoft, isn't it? They're going to have to find some way of forcing us into upgrades, and a Vista-only Halo 2 won't cut it.

Shame, really. I know people who are still using Win2K and having a lovely life, still able to play 99% of games. All of that will end.

**hoom** · 05-28-2006, 03:48

At the bottom end Vista will look & perform largely like XP.
In the mid range you get directx9 flashy visuals.
At the top end is directx10 flashy visuals which probably won't differ much from the directx9 but this is the bit that article was referring to.

**Xiahou** · 05-28-2006, 08:31

Originally Posted by Lemur

Well, that's certainly the threat from MicroSoft, isn't it? They're going to have to find some way of forcing us into upgrades, and a Vista-only Halo 2 won't cut it.

Shame, really. I know people who are still using Win2K and having a lovely life, still able to play 99% of games. All of that will end.

I suspect it'll be a long long time before you see that many DX10 only games. Game publishers want sales more than anything else- and they wont cut off a majority of their customer base just for DX10.

**orangat** · 05-28-2006, 19:10

They don't have to. DX10 is touted to be much much faster than dx9 and have access to more hardware features. Gamers will inevitably gravitate towards dx10.

**Rodion Romanovich** · 05-28-2006, 20:45

I hope Windows Vista will allow simpler graphical UI by a setting. In win 98, ME, 2000 and XP I always turn off animated menus etc., because they just lag (and if they don't lag the actual animation steals time) and slow down my work (or gaming

). Did I mention I also choose the "Windows Classic" theme for the desktop and windows in XP

?

**Ibn Munqidh** · 06-05-2006, 12:57

We gamers will run that software easily, as for DX10, Im sure that will come, no more than 3-4 months after Vista is released. I also heard from my local PC guy that this new Vista will include a whole new type of firewall, internet security, and antivirus, so no need for the dang Norton anymore.