Wouldn't it be great...
I have an XBox and a PC. My PC is ten times more powerful than my XBOX, yet most games (not all) look better on my Xbox instead of my PC. This got me thinking about the reason for this. It must be because WINDOWS is HUGE!!! and is hogging all my sys resources and takes away from the potential my system has for incredible graphics. I'm wondering what is stopping some company from creating an OS that would boot instead of Windows(you'd have a choice which one to boot when you powerup your system), that is optimized for games, like the OS for XBOX. I read somewhere that the XBox's OS is a scaled down version of Windows 2000 and is less than 3 megs in size!!! Imagine the possibilities graphically if there was no huge overhead from Windows, it would be amazing!!!
My Computer
AMD Athlon 2100+
512 ddr2700 RAM
Radeon 9500 Pro
My XBOX
Pentium 2/3 733mhz
64 Megs of shared RAM
GeForce 3/4
I have an XBox and a PC. My PC is ten times more powerful than my XBOX, yet most games (not all) look better on my Xbox instead of my PC. This got me thinking about the reason for this. It must be because WINDOWS is HUGE!!! and is hogging all my sys resources and takes away from the potential my system has for incredible graphics. I'm wondering what is stopping some company from creating an OS that would boot instead of Windows(you'd have a choice which one to boot when you powerup your system), that is optimized for games, like the OS for XBOX. I read somewhere that the XBox's OS is a scaled down version of Windows 2000 and is less than 3 megs in size!!! Imagine the possibilities graphically if there was no huge overhead from Windows, it would be amazing!!!
My Computer
AMD Athlon 2100+
512 ddr2700 RAM
Radeon 9500 Pro
My XBOX
Pentium 2/3 733mhz
64 Megs of shared RAM
GeForce 3/4