Dissecting DX10, Part 2

I think I will be sticking with XP and DX9 for awhile yet.

Gah! This whole "Games for Windows" thing is a crock of s**t. Seems to me what we all need is "Windows for Games" - a lean, mean, screaming demon of an OS without all the baggage than comes with Vista.

Dude that is bloody brilliant. I've heard the idea before, and I'm not sure why they still have not implemented it. But what I'm thinking is dual-boot windows in a sense. Basically, "normal mode" and "gaming mode" (you know how they have safe mode, it would be like that, but geared totally for games, and games only). The normal mode is bloatware. But the gaming mode would be just a tiny shell - only the necessary drivers, and an elegant, very very minimalistic GUI. No aero, no funky effects, no animation of GUI at all, no shadows, just make it like windows 3.1 or windows 95, just higher rez to fit new screens - but nothing more than that.

No services but the bare necessities running in the background. No processes other than necessities, etc. Basically, a version of windows, or even a separate OS that has all the appropriate drivers, geared entirely towards games. Fully optimized for games - and it should work much faster than windows vista OR windows xp, it should boot up in like 10 seconds because there's nothing but the essentials for games booting up.

If a separate OS, I am thinking open source like linux. In a sense it would be similar to the console OS's, only it should be even better, even more optimized, and still support normal computer functions like files/folders/etc. Hmm, wait, why not just make a new Linux distro for games only? Linux is already out there, already popular, already plays games, and is open-source. Perfect candidate for heavy game-geared modification.

The problem with that, since games are made for windows, mac, and Linux (mostly Windows), I dunno if a separate OS could be written to play windows games. That's why I think optomizing windows, and not just giving it face-lifts and "skins", but at the root, is probably the best way. Otherwise that OS would have to get game companies to make games for it. Although there is potential for a game-only OS, that is extremely cheap or even free (open source) to take off, and revolutionize PC gaming.

Clearly Windows is just going "down" in terms of its ability to play games, each version is slower. Not just cuz of new DirectX, but because it becomes more and more bloated. So it just seems like a natural solution to this problem - either create a new mode on windows, or a new OS entirely, or a new Linux distro. Separate the gaming environment from the bloatware "everything else" environment, that's all.

I agree, why the tests didnt use SM4.0? I thought its a DX10 matter.

It wood be very agressive move of the linux communitie against M$ if they develop a better Graphics/Physics API and a complete Game OS distro.
Maybe, with a better API than the current OpenGL 2.0, developers around the world start to create/port their games with better histories/graphics than the current (selling) ones.
We saw what a developer comunitie can do better than the giant M$: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ
Imagine this effort utilizing in Game developing?

Not sure if that would be the best solution but I know Windows PE XP will run off a CD. Why not use a modified PE image as a gaming platform?