vista dx10?

[licid24]

will dx10 with vista make warhammer online look alot better when it comes out than dx9? I mean I only got about $900 to play with and wondering if I need to get vista or if my xp will be fine.

I wnat every thing to look as good as possible

thx

 

[efx92]

It depends on if WAR supports DX10. I would get Vista anyways because games will probably start using it a lot more for better graphics.

 

[spaztic7]

I do not believe War Hammer is a DX10(.1) game. Saying that, it wont matter or not if you have a DX10(.1) card because you are running in DX9. But, newer cards will give better picture quality and ATi has been known to have better color representation.

I agree with efx92. Get Vista anyway. You may not like it at first, but understand that it is a new OS and not XP. If you go into it with an open mind and ready to learn a new OS, you will love it. If you want it to be XP v2 then you wont like it. Vista is overall better than XP.

There are a few games coming out that will be DX10(.1) compliant. Other than Crysis, Assassins Creed, Bioshock, UT3 that are already out; Star Craft 2, Diablo 2, Guild Wars 2, Spore, and more are coming out that will be DX10(.1) ready as well. So getting a DX10(.1) card is well worth it. For $900 I would get two Radeon HD4870 and cross fire them if you can. If not, wait for the HD4870x2 (that will run about $450 and smash the Nvidia GTX280).

 

[maximiza]

Today is XP's last day, get Vista

 

[jamesgoddard]

If you allready have a license for XP - I don't see a need to upgrade just yet - DX9 (XP) support will be with us for many a year yet... And the difference in image quality is not much...

 

[jamesgoddard]

Today is XP's last day, get Vista

XP has support from Microsoft till April 2014 - no rush mate

 

[Ogdin]

If you allready have a license for XP - I don't see a need to upgrade just yet - DX9 (XP) support will be with us for many a year yet... And the difference in image quality is not much...

But the performance penalty you take for activating all the dx10 eyecandy is substantial in most games.

 

[gamecrazychris]

You could always dual-boot and get the best of both worlds (like me)

 

[spaztic7]

But the performance penalty you take for activating all the dx10 eyecandy is substantial in most games.

True, but that’s the point of getting a card powerful enough to handle all the eye-candy. If we didn't care about eye-candy, we would still be playing text based games on a pea-green monitor. DX10 does make other things look better too. If you play Crysis in DX9 mode, rocks which are apart of the group texture look like they are just a texture on the ground. In DX10 mode, they pop out and become 3d and look like real objects. DX10 give more natural looks to things and really helps with a closer to real life effects and game play. This was a very basic example, without mentioning that it brought unified architectures are the default architecture.

 

[Ogdin]

No need to dual boot unless you are playing some of the older games/old software.Anything current gets pretty much = fps in xp or vista if the same settings are used.