When will you adopt DX10?

Pretty self explanatory. Personally, I could not swallow Vista.

you could always get vista by other means...

I like to keep my PC legal.

With that said, maybe I'll just rob a bank to get the money.

you forgot option number 7: I have vista/DX10, but i haven't played any games with DX10 yet!

I have a Opteron 165 DC @ 2.25 Ghz, 8800GTS 640. I see no point putting Vista on this system, it is too old, being a S939 with NO upgrade path anymore.

I will get it when AM3 and the Octals are out, as this is my next planned upgrade. I will have 8Gb of RAM in it. I think this is a more sensible computer for Vistax64, not some old "last gen Xp" system.

Also, by that time, there will be some good DX10 games out, I'm hoping. And most of the major bugs are fixed. We don't even have SP1 released yet for Vista.

When I see games that will impress me in dx 10.

Until it's properly supported on XP, or Microsoft releases a new OS worth buying, whichever comes first.

badge, I never heard someone put it that way, it makes me CRINGE how true that is.

I don't want to start some flame war and ruin this sensible thread, I am not making any comparisons but I am getting more and more intrigued by Ubuntu Linux. I really would use that OS on my home computer if all new games that came out were written for it, and Graphics Cards ran on it with excellent drivers. I would love to use Open Office too, it is the gaming that kills Linux for me.

I hope that one day Linux has a layer written in it that if a game says XP or Vista on the box, you can run it on Linux. I would totally use it.

badge, do you think that it would be worth it for me to grab a copy of Vista x64? I would love to play around with it, but am worried that it would overtax my system. An upgrade copy is pretty cheap, and if the performance would be the same as XP, even if I have to use DX9 mode through Vista (if possible) to maintain the same performance as XP, so I can play with Vista and get used to it etc.

My system: Opteron 165 DC @ 2.25 Ghz, 8800GTS 640, 2 x 1GB RAM in Dual Channel, Soundblaster 24 Bit OEM, S939 Asus A8N-E.

So, do you think I should go for it? I would trust your opinion, or is my system too long in the tooth? I would get another 2 GB of RAM (DDR 400, cheap as well) to boot.

A n00b question:

Could I play in DX9 mode on Vista x 64 or does it force you to play on DX10 if you have a DX10 videocard and a DX10 game??

Also, would DX9 in Vistax64 be just as fast as DX9 on XP, or would there still be a performance hit??? Even with 2 extra Gb RAM???

Never

I'll probably be using it around the time that "When will you adopt DX11?" threads start to appear.

Thanks guys, I am not bothering with Vista till my next build. Off to play Crysis demo... Again!!

No vista for me, until sp1 is out and everyone is asking me why i have not switched.......

yeah, you don't have to buy vista... rethink your ideals for a second, and get linux... and help me tell game developers to make more games for linux. :-p

When I build a new system next year and go to Vista.

For me it's very simple!

When ATI or NVidia line of VPU will be powerful enough to run the games at reasonable fps (as in frames per seconds, not first person shooter). Current VPU can barely do a decent job with current games. I can't imagine what it'll be with real Dx10 games.

For now, I enjoy all those half-Dx10 games in Dx9 mode. I really enjoy my 60fps in Bioshock on my X1950Pro instead of less then 30 on all of Dx10 VPU but the 8800GTX (for Dx10 rendering of course).

One last thing. Vista ain't so bad. Or not any worst then XP at least. No offence, but did you at least tried Vista for more then 10 minutes? I have a dual-boot PC (my gaming rig on top of this) and I didn't boot under XP for my desktop for more then 2 months now. I had no crashes and no incompatible software, or should I say, none that I really need. Not being able to run TAT really isn't a problem for me. All that for a 64-bit OS. Much better then XP-64bit in that regard if you ask me.

My 2 cents.

I'm sure Vista will become better after additional patch and whenever SP1 is released for it. Last I heard SP1 was only BETA.

I just need some real reason to upgrade other than just games.

Well for me that would mean that I would be spending around $300 for Vista Ultimate (Retail) for each of my PC with no real benefits over Windows XP Pro.

Ooooh, DX10. Yeah, so what? What else am I getting to justify the cost of upgrading?

by $300 you mean $1 for a dvd right?

i agree with you. i will never use xp on any of my computer or computers again. vista is a good os. better then xp. is runs fast and awesome on my rig

thank god someone feels me... I heart linux... if only people would realize how EASY it can be... it would be GREAT! besides, I don't remember reading about any "windows" release being a top product in a highly regarded consumer periodical (this is the part where a dude with his nose up bill gates butt pulls his brown nose out and does some searching as a sad rebuttal) haha

ps: good games for linux... Astromenace, neverwinter nights, half life 2, quake 3, et wolfenstien, et quake wars, savage, savage 2, etc. etc. and those are all native (and yes it is possible to run WOW on linux) :-p