Vista + DX10

[Alchemist]

I read an article on Gamespot that gave me renewed hopes in Vista.

Like everyone else, I had worried that Vista was going to be nothing more than a graphical update of Windows XP, but since the introduction of 3d desktop features, windows has had to rethink their graphics driver in order to better accomidate these features. In essence, the operating system will run better on machines with graphics cards, and those machines will recieve a performance boost of up to 6x the speed now.



Plus, Directx 10 will introduce many new light blooming and graphics processing features that will no doubt be exploited by Unreal engine 3 games.

I'm still a Linux junky, but this is encouraging news for the world of PC gamers.

[Doomulation]

Jump in DRM. Jump in 800 mb+ eaten by the system. Jump in graphic cards with PS2.0+ probably.
There isn't really that much to be exicted about vista. Did I mention that microsoft needs to rework a lot of code and that a lot of planned changes might not get in there? On top of all that, microsoft is having trouble with the EU, and they might slam down more restrictions on microsoft's OS, and then microsoft will be in trouble. So the future is very bleak, or at the very least, we cannot see what will happen.

[Miretank]

Why worry with Vista? SP3 will come anyway. ;P

[WhiteX]

DirectX 10 games will only work on Vista AND a DX 10 vid card, it is to trash you very expensive 7800GTX and go buy another one for an OS just released, therefore highly bugged.

[arnalion]

Vista sucks, many built in DRM protections. Extremly hardware requiring. Just many unnecessary stuff. The nice features on Vista will come to XP64 to.

[ScottJC]

Oh please, when Vista is released all of you will grab it regardless of your feelings - Don't believe me? XP won't live forever and sooner or later the market is going to shift to Vista so that XP will become obsolete.

The same things were said by people when XP's release was coming, "Theres no way i'm installing that, activation blah blah blah" and yet now XP has suddenly managed to get on all of our machines.

I don't see any reason to judge the OS before it has even come out, that would be silly... it'd be far wiser to take a wait and see approach. Vista might be crap and it might not be. Lets wait till its released properly to the public before we pass judgement, k?

[Miretank]

I don't believe people will upgrade to Vista so soon, a lot of people still have no enough hardware for it. Other thing is a lot of people still use 98. Obsolete or not, XP will be running on a massive number of PCs for a long time, remember that Service Pack 3 will come yet.
Of course, like happened before, everyone will upgrade for Vista. But not so soon.

I agree when you say "Lets wait till its released properly to the public before we pass judgement", but reading articles and seeing screenshot, Vista will be more an eye candy than a great OS, in my opinion of course.

[arnalion]

No i won't use it if it's not necessary. When XP came knew i that the NT systems was better than the old DOS based once, because i had already used win 2k.

[ScottJC]

Windows XP is not nessicary, I could run windows 95 if I just wanted e-mail; in a sense XP is eye-candy as it is nothing more than Windows 2000 with bells and whistles. Since Vista is in the same family as XP I wouldn't nessicarily say that it is a bad OS yet - there are a lot of similarities between XP and Vista.

[Miretank]

Since Vista is in the same family as XP I wouldn't nessicarily say that it is a bad OS yet - there are a lot of similarities between XP and Vista.

A bad OS it won't be for sure - but why should I upgrade to Vista if I already have a good XP? Vista requires to much hardware power, and the only cool thing I've seen on it (until now, maybe m$ will improve) is the Aero style. Other than that, XP still reigns over Vista.

Plus that, they may say DX 10. But if I want M$ games, I would buy a 360, not upgrade my pc just to play Halo 2.