Yuppeee ....No DX 10 this year ...FANTASTIC..

woohoo, vista is delayed. time to celebrate. its utter junk imo. i didnt get XP until like 4 months ago and even then, my old pc is running win2kpro. win2kpro would be on my new pc if it wasnt for sli. i understand their reasons but come on, just release DX10 on 2k and XP. id pay for it if it did come out for it. so much more stable(2k) and uses a lot less resources. i miss my 2k

 

vista raped my system, ive just unistalled it i know it was only a beta but it ran like crap. But i have to say its nice looking

 

im so glad i got my 7600GT now, nice and cheap and itll do me till next year, then ill upgrade when the 2nd gen DX10 cards come out.

 

Vista will run sweet on your system mate, its just the beta is soooooo buggy.

 

If every single one of us said NO to Mr.Gates, do you think he would win? Unfortunately this will never happen... :bawl:

 

yea i know itl run nice on my system, im adding a 7900GT to it soon and possibly one of them new stepping 3800x2 but im just saying when i tried to run it it was pretty bad it took so long to start up and shutdown i had enough time to make my dinner.

 

7800GS will be my choice of card than. Very nice...
At least a couple of years before

1)The new systems become affordable.I am strictly midrange guy.
2)Before a new DX10 game comes along that in one sweep makes my system obsolete and me shake and drool with the need to play it.

 

i'd have to disagree that Billy is the driving force behind games. he knows that 90%+ of the world uses Windows in some form or other. so what does he do? he makes game developers have to use DX just to play games on his OS. OpenGL is a better app or why would every CAD or Animation rendering company use it over DX? here's a little info on the differences between the two and you tell me which is better:

Both contain:
Extension Mechanism
Full-screen Antialiasing
Motion Blur
Depth of field
Updates Yearly

Microsoft additional:
Vertex Blending

OpenGL additional:
Multiple Operating Systems
Development through Multiple member Board
Thorough Specification
Two Sided Lighting
Volume Textures
Hardware Independent Z-Buffers
Accumulation Buffers
Stereo Rendering
Point-size/Line-width Attributes
Picking
Parametric curves and surfaces

Differences:
OpenGL
Cache Geometry: Display Lists
System Emulation: Hardware not present
Interface: Procedure calls
Source Code: Sample

DirectX
Cache Geometry: Vertex Buffers
System Emulation: Let app determine
Interface: COM
Source Code: SDK Implementation

 

Opengl is harder to render and less forgiving.

thats why most choose DX to code games in.

opengl still looks sweeter