When will you adopt DX10?

[cbhm]

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

 

[jaguarskx]

Maybe next year, maybe not.

I have two PCs so that means I need to buy two copies of Vista if I want to ditch XP.

 

[cbhm]

Maybe next year, maybe not.

I have two PCs so that means I need to buy two copies of Vista if I want to ditch XP.

you could always get vista by other means...

 

[badge]

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

XP? You have to be kidding?

With price tags of $550 and $725 respectively, the Geforce 8800 GTX and Ultra are anything but cheap. That's a lot of money to invest into 3D gaming. Under DirectX 10, these graphics processors really fly. While their performance lead over the Radeon 2900 XT and the Geforce 8800 GTS was not as pronounced under Windows XP/DirectX 9, they offer between 50 and 100 percent more performance than these cards under Vista/DirectX 10.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/09/directx_10_shootout/page10.html

 

[jaguarskx]

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.

 

[ailgatrat]

I like to keep my PC legal.

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

I hear they get better Jell-0 in Federal Prisons...

 

[starcraftfanatic]

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

 

[Heyyou27]

I already own Vista and an 8800GTX, but I won't be using it ever if the retail version of Crysis ends up as bad as the Demo is under Direct X10.

 

[Falken699]

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.

 

[aadamszc]

Honestly, probably the system after this system. I don't see the 8800GT playing DX10 fantastically, but maybe...

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

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

 

[paq7512]

Until a better OS to support it is released.

 

[jt001]

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

 

[badge]

Until a better OS to support it is released.

Your XP OS has 1073 updates and PATCHES (haven't updated that number since 2006). You are running a giant Patch and hail it's performance capabilities.

I have a few VISTA machines I built and run every day since the inception to compare to.

 

[Falken699]

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]

Beats me why computer savy people hate Vista. I would never go back to XP.

 

[Falken699]

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.

 

[pauldh]

I already have a retail box Vista Ultimate and an 8800GTS, but I don't plan on installing it for a while until I have better hardware.

 

[Falken699]

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???

 

[Sigadigah]

As of right now Vista is too taxing on system resources for me to consider purchasing it. Also, there are currently no DX10 games that I am interested in, and even if there were, to enable dx10 features takes such a drastic hit in performance that it wouldnt be feasible for me. I will most likely get vista when a 700-1000 machine can run vista and a dx10 game at 1680 or 1920 resolution, at decent settings and still get acceptable fps.

 

[tlmck]

Never

 

[vip3569]

vista is terribad

 

[metrazol]

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

 

[Heyyou27]

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???

You can force an application to use Direct X9; the performance hit from Vista itself and 64-bit is usually very minor these days. I own Vista Business x64(got it for free from a 10 license OEM) and XP Media Center; I use Media Center a lot with my Xbox360 so running Vista at the moment is an issue until I upgrade to Vista Ultimate. Seeing as the Crysis Direct X10 settings are completely unplayable on my overclocked 8800GTX, I'd rather stick with XP at the moment. I've also heard from unconfirmed sources that the "Very High" quality settings can be enabled in XP with some sort of registry edit.

 

[Falken699]

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