Direct X10 on Windows XP!

[ausch30]

That projectoffset looks amazing but the real benefit of DX10 is less making things look pretty and more about efficiently using the GPU to produce better results. And to runswindows95 from what I understand MS will stop releasing fixes for XP at the end of the year so the end is nearer than most think.

 

[runswindows95]

Considering there are rumors of a new Windows in 2009, that doesn't surprise me. By then, I'll be building a Vista system anyway.

 

[caamsa]

That looks nice, if it looks that good ingame and it ever gets released. Far Cry was still amazing at the time of its release, was all I stated. Hardware is much better now too. Thus my point that you may have missed about everything getting better as we move forward into the future. Would you want to still be using XP and DX9 10 years from now, just because some programmers can still make it look nice?

Vista is here. DX10 is here. I say let's put our energy into pressing developers into getting the best out of those ASAP. Instead some people seem to want them to hang back and squeeze the last drop of life out of DX9 and XP. Which IMHO is rather pointless in the era of quad cores and juicy new DX10 cards arriving this month.

IMO a good game is a good game regardless of the graphics. I still play Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Max Payne some times. The graphics are dated but not all that bad and the games rock! How many people still play warcraft II or starcraft? How about the monkey island series?

 

[tiger131]

IMO a good game is a good game regardless of the graphics. I still play Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Max Payne some times. The graphics are dated but not all that bad and the games rock! How many people still play warcraft II or starcraft? How about the monkey island series?

Your mom....

 

[caamsa]

IMO a good game is a good game regardless of the graphics. I still play Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Max Payne some times. The graphics are dated but not all that bad and the games rock! How many people still play warcraft II or starcraft? How about the monkey island series?

Your mom....



Ahhh your mom's sister's brother's nephew's mom.

 

[forbesholden]

I play monkey island!

Guybrush Treepwood FTW!

 

[djcoolmasterx]

Nice bump there

 

[L1qu1d]

LOL 2 years😛 I'd agree

 

[gamerk316]

Whats worse, is the comment was pointless...

 

[Guest]

I have to admit, that would be pretty cool. WinXp is what 6 years old and VIsta is new.
Remember when we all said, " Windows XP, I don't want that crap! Screw you Microsoft for shoving this down our throats" Now we all love it. Eventually we will all like Vista also; I will even get it in the next year or so when I build my new machine.

Are you crazy Vista is awfule belive me i bought it and had to reformat and go back on xp i have a quad chip 2 4850x2 cards and 8 gig of ramn + 4 more on my cards and vista is still 5 times slower than x5 for loading shutting down updating instaling it makes errors when you are instaling you have to fight to get your software instaled to the location you want all the back ground services.My point is xp was good when it came out i didnt blank it once but Vista is a dead horse m8.And yes i have reinstalled it 5 times over the last year to see if updates had sorted it out nope its crap and tbh i feel cheated i even bought the Vista SP1/2 at gr8 exspense to try and imrove it but nope its a white elephant that should be lost in the vaults of time.

 

[djcoolmasterx]

Are you crazy Vista is awfule belive me i bought it and had to reformat and go back on xp i have a quad chip 2 4850x2 cards and 8 gig of ramn + 4 more on my cards and vista is still 5 times slower than x5 for loading shutting down updating instaling it makes errors when you are instaling you have to fight to get your software instaled to the location you want all the back ground services.My point is xp was good when it came out i didnt blank it once but Vista is a dead horse m8.And yes i have reinstalled it 5 times over the last year to see if updates had sorted it out nope its crap and tbh i feel cheated i even bought the Vista SP1/2 at gr8 exspense to try and imrove it but nope its a white elephant that should be lost in the vaults of time.

When XP came out it was crap.

If its 5 times slower you are doing something wrong.

Unless you are using ancient software you shouldn't have a problem with installations.

I bet you are using the x86 version with all that RAM with its 4GB limit which would explain the poor performance.

If you paid for service packs you have been conned.

You just bumped a thread started in 2007 which had been resolved.

Vista is good at last and most if not all of the problems resolved, I had it working on my old laptop with 512MB of RAM fine.

Try the Windows 7 release candidate.

 

[wh3resmycar]

its laughable when some crazy bongo digs up an old thread. more laughable when that same bongo boast his system setup

on xp i have a quad chip 2 4850x2 cards and 8 gig of ramn + 4 more

2 dx10 cards that never flexed its dx10 muscles.