DirectX 11 to Get Announced This Month

* nv55:

> Next-gen consoles (3rd-gen Xbox, PlayStation4) will probably make
> DirectX 11 w/ Shader Model 5.0 really big just as DirectX 9 w/ Shader
> Model 3.0 is the most supported standard across 360/PC/PS3.

In case of the Playstation that is just nonsense. PS2 and PS3 are OpenGL
only, not Direct3D/DirectX.

Benjamin

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:07:26 +0100, Shawk
<shawk@clara.co.uk.3guesses> wrote:
>
>Completely agree with everything you say except Vista sucks. I bought
>an OEM copy to dual boot and play with. Hated it at first but now since
>SP1 its no slower on my PC in DX10 than my XP and DX9 config. I no
>longer boot into XP at all. Unless you want Vista for anything else
>though I wouldn't bother 'upgrading' as DX10 has barely noticeable
>differences over DX9. Maybe in future games but not worth it atm.

I'm still running win2k. Didn't like the registration process and
whatnot in XP. I never understood why people bought XP. It's just
win2k with restrictions and a built in clone of Ghost for backups.
They have to go out of their way to freeze out Win2k in software and
even then you can find patches to make things like Crysis work.

<zippo> wrote in message news:lo5o741orudqr6801sjj9sojf9ghsemj36@4ax.com...
> I'm still running win2k. Didn't like the registration process and
> whatnot in XP. I never understood why people bought XP. It's just
> win2k with restrictions and a built in clone of Ghost for backups.
> They have to go out of their way to freeze out Win2k in software and
> even then you can find patches to make things like Crysis work.

Crysis isn't worth the effort IMO. Try getting current versions of
MS Flight Simulator to run on Win2K. What a joke. There's no
reason why it can't run under Win2K, so MS went out of their way
to code Flight Simulator specifically to look for Win2K, and refuse
to run if it finds it.

Also, since MS moved Win2K into "extended support", as far as
most developers go it's as if the OS never existed.

It's becoming a royal pain in the ***, by design.

I'm running XP with the "classic" interface, so it actually looks like a
slightly updated Win2K. :-) Reasons for using XP are better legacy game
support (I couldn't get Mech3 to run in 2K) and faster boot/shutdown.

Can you do a fresh install of 2K on a system with PCIe video cards? I
thought PCIe support was only added in XP SP1.

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<zippo> wrote in message news:lo5o741orudqr6801sjj9sojf9ghsemj36@4ax.com...
> I'm still running win2k. Didn't like the registration process and
> whatnot in XP. I never understood why people bought XP. It's just
> win2k with restrictions and a built in clone of Ghost for backups.
> They have to go out of their way to freeze out Win2k in software and
> even then you can find patches to make things like Crysis work.
>
>

"First of One" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:zeidnYZyf4dBkRzVnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
> I'm running XP with the "classic" interface, so it actually looks like a
> slightly updated Win2K. :-) Reasons for using XP are better legacy game
> support (I couldn't get Mech3 to run in 2K) and faster boot/shutdown.
>
> Can you do a fresh install of 2K on a system with PCIe video cards? I
> thought PCIe support was only added in XP SP1.

Of course you can. Win2K sees them as standard PCI video cards
until installation of the OS and video drivers is complete:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archiv..._graphics.mspx