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Which operating system do you use?
robby5403
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Trying to get a view about the diffrent operation systems people use..
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You might want to change 'operation' to 'operating' before the nitpickers get on your case and say things like 'Cardio' or 'Neural'
Incidentally, it's Vista Ultimate for me. Despite the rumours and the bad press (which isn't unusual these days) I've found it to be superior to all other systems for gaming.
Ah thanks :P Im also using Vista because of DX10
Ah thanks :P Im also using Vista because of DX10
That's what most would consider the main reason to use Vista, I'm sure. It certainly makes a noticeable difference from what I've seen.
Gonna be interesting to see what happens (and how much it ends up costing me) if dx11 goes live on schedule next year, but I'll save that topic for another thread.
I really wish they'd bring out DX10 on XP. I begrudge making the move to Vista.
I use Vista 64, much better than XP I am very glad I upgraded although it was expensive!
I do use windows XP, since it is the very common operating system here in our country. And vista isn't fully develop yet, that is why haven't try it. And vista isn't compatible with some of my hardwareds.
I'll probably finally make the move over when Windows 7 comes out. That will hopefully be what Vista was supposed to be.
Me to. Win Vista is a bit like Win millenium (its only for a short periode of time and full of buggs and trouble). The beta of Win 7 starts in decembre 2008
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Ah thanks :P Im also using Vista because of DX10
That's what most would consider the main reason to use Vista, I'm sure. It certainly makes a noticeable difference from what I've seen.
Gonna be interesting to see what happens (and how much it ends up costing me) if dx11 goes live on schedule next year, but I'll save that topic for another thread.
I have a DX10 card and Vista... but I moved to Vista so I can actually use their new memory management system in the 64 bit version, that way I can use all my RAM.
Overall, I couldn't be happier with the move. XP felt like a hackjob for the better half of a decade, and when Vista came into the picture I spent a month toying with it and figuring out all the little nuances and ways around the majority of the complaints.
The only thing I can't run is 16 bit applications, which I don't have any anymore.
So whenever people complain about Vista, I laugh at them. Then I make a bet with them, then I get their program running, and watch them try to wiggle out of paying me.
as for DX10... honestly, I don't see the difference between 10 and 9... visually... the few little changes in the 3 DX10 games I have I normally see a few times and then ignore because I'm too busy trying to kill something. So most my games run DX9 still because it can go higher resolutions with less drop of framerate.
...not that it matters... OpenGL > DX... just lazy Developers really...
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Well if you run DX10 games or games like Lotro they're lots nicer in dx10 then in dx9 :P
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 as my main workstation. Very slim, only 120mb memory footprint, extremely fast. I don't care for all the bling-bling in Vista or Xp, i need raw performance. Yay for having friends that go to university.
The workstation is running several different flavours of linux in virtual machines, mainly debian for testing, ubuntu for keeping track of it, and gentoo. (Of course not all at once)
Current uptime: two months. Not bad for a desktop i guess.
//edit: Yes, that's also the box where gaming happens.
Vista 64 running 4 gigs
Not an unsolvable glitch in sight.
Vista; no problem here.
Vista 64bit SP1. Best OS ever released for a gamer or general home user.
I've tried them all and even running Ubuntu and OSX at home. Nothing compares to the flexibility, power, software library, of Vista 64bit.
OSX is for fruits.
Linux for nerds.
XP for chicken littles (oh noes the sky is falling vista is bad) or the unemployed /kids who can't afford to upgrade their PC.
Vista 64bit SP1 for true lead the way gamers.
haha, flexibility... windows...
Don't complain about lack of Flexibility in Linux until you use a real distro, not watered down Ubuntu garbage.
Roll with Slack, Gentoo, or Arch and tell me there's no flexibility.
Ubuntu is just a pimped debian. You can change just as much as with any other distro.
Vista 64 here as well. Only have had a couple of problems with games not being compatible with the 64 bit system...American Magee's Grim for example. Other than that everything has been fine.
I know you say vista 64 for gaming (and I'm not going to dispute this fact as I have never used it) however, if you look at some older pc games e.g beyond good and evil, heroes of might and magic iv (and many more), they are not compatible with anything 64 bit but run very smooth on xp 32 bit (which I use). So in that respect 64 bit is limited for gamers.
I'm currently using an XP machine and it only has about another year or so of life left in it (despite all the upgrades I've made). However, I don't think I'm going to go to Vista or Windows 7.
Its not because I want to "break the mold" or whatever, but I don't like the continuing DRM software that we're seeing more and more of these days. I'm a Law student and studying law and being a gamer has given me a lot of insight into how these things work... and if there is one side that the law hasn't caught up with yet, its technology, and these DRM software seem to violate a lot of different things. Particularly privacy.
It seems that as we continue forward with our tech, that we give up more and more of our privacy to be "secure" and these companies, such as Microsoft and EA, would rather have their dollars "secure" then care about the consumer's privacy, and as we've seen with Spore the only people who are hurt by DRM software are the people who pay for the product.
Piracy is an idea that seems to be absolutely blown out of proportion just to make the consumer worry about pointless shit, and it seems that these numbers keep multiplying just to give developers of software a pure reason to invade our, the paying consumers, privacy.
I can understand verifying a product key when a program is installed, or verifying the authenticity of a program when you go to update from official website, but to constantly send out information on a weekly or bi-weekly basis is wrong. Not only that but we don't know what they're sending out and their is no way to disable the DRM without disabling the use of the program.
In short the next computer I buy I'm loading Linux on it.
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Perhaps someone more techinically inclined than myself will know the answer to this...
Is XP techincally capable of using DX10, but it's kept to VISTA as a selling point in an effort to force more users into using VISTA over XP?
Thanks in advance for the answers.
BOYCOTTING EA / ORIGIN going forward.
Xp pro here. Will eventually have to go to some form of vista for large memory awareness, however.
No, DX 10 can't really function under XP. "taking DirectX 10 back to XP would be equivalent with rewriting the operating system's kernel in order to be similar to Vista's."
By the time you got done, you would basically have a little gimped Vista. There's really no point in even trying.
I remember back in 1999, folks kept asking me if I was stockpiling food. I always answered, "No, I'm stockpiling ammo and making a list of people who are stockpiling food"
XP pro for me, Dx10 is overrated IMO. I will not be jumping to vista, I'll wait for the next OS that comes out.
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That is correct.
Not to derail this thread in too large a margin but I don't own a game that I haven't also downloaded a NO-CD shortcut in order to forgo diskswapping and protection issues.
I buy the games but always download any hacks I deem necessary.
I understand if you are going Linux out of principle but if you want to avoid privacy concerns a little intervention on your part (as in all things where privacy is concerned i.e. SS# at doctor's office) will go a long way. Not that you should have to of course