DirectX 11 to be announced this Month

[Bungral]

dx10 has not caught on due to the majority staying with xp,so is dx11 for the next windows OS?if so that means all the people who bought vista (myself included) have been suckered

Not really... I've made a profit so far.

Bought XP MCE for £45 OEM and got a free Vista upgrade disc.. Sold both for £99 and went and bought Vista 64 for ummm £55. Ok I've spent a quid on my Vista.

 

[PP Mguire]

Around here you can get a college student discount on OS. Vista Ultimate x64 for 20 bucks? Yes please!

 

[Toxcity]

I was saying that before it even came out. People today still nay say me.

I won't nay say!

 

[Jaster]

hmmm....trying to stretch rasterization...if its a big enough jump from DX10...which no one uses anyway....then who the hell is gonna code for it...I think the raytracing models used in Larabee are the next big jump...honestly what the hells gonna happen to all those people who've just put together a tri SLI 280 system...shader model 5....it makes most systems obsolete already...why can't software and hardware implementation be a bit more unified....

 

[Rastalovich]

Any1 want to take odds on Dx11 not being implemented in Vista ?

 

[mrapoc]

chances are high ... gits

 

[PP Mguire]

Ill be glad if its only Windows 7.

 

[Toxcity]

Ill be glad if its only Windows 7.

Agree, Vista was/is a quick money grabber for MS. Did the job I guess lots of people were fooled into its marketing.

 

[Hyper]

I quite like Windows Vista and think Microsoft did quite a good job in the end.

I think people were just expecting far too much.

 

[Toxcity]

I think people were just expecting far too much.

Or for some, expecting far too little.

 

[Rastalovich]

Or for some, expecting far too little.

$400 !!!

 

[mrapoc]

To me vista x64 is a decent OS once you have enough RAM and a decent rest of the setup. I mean it was too expensive (still is) for what is just an XP expansion pack if you like, but it looks nicer, runs smoother (for me) and driver support is a lot (i mean a lot) better than xp x64.

Im happy with it till Windows 7 comes along (which I am expecting to be better in terms of performance) and Dx11 should be pretty darn sweet

 

[Rastalovich]

To me vista x64 is a decent OS once you have enough RAM and a decent rest of the setup.

I wouldn`t say `decent rest of the setup`, I`d say hardware that`s known to work.

Kinda like building a hackintosh.

 

[PP Mguire]

No actualy i think he has it right. Its like i said, dual core, 4gig of ram, and an 8800 series GPU or higher and youve got it perfect for Vista. After getting an 8800GS i kinda proven to myself my point on Vista. Runs perfectly (most of the time) for me so i have no complaints except it needing a pretty high end system to run.

 

[mrapoc]

I think, if Windows 7 ditches the high end system "compliance" and adds in a few more tweaks such as less succeptible to viruses, file transfer speeds etc.

It will be a winner

 

[PP Mguire]

I could care less about virus crap but i agree with high end compliance. I say they need to quit trying to make things so user friendly and start going back to days of old (DOS) where performance is where it counted.

 

[Rastalovich]

No actualy i think he has it right. Its like i said, dual core, 4gig of ram, and an 8800 series GPU or higher and youve got it perfect for Vista. After getting an 8800GS i kinda proven to myself my point on Vista. Runs perfectly (most of the time) for me so i have no complaints except it needing a pretty high end system to run.

U tried installing new soundcards, or even new mobo-onboard sound in Vista 64bit ?

It`ll work with standard connections, preferably stereo or standard surround, but don`t try and do anything like have inputs going on or upscaling. I figured spdif in/out was there so u should be able to use it without crack, metalic, crash sounds.

Mix to the hdmi works, until u use mediaplayer for music or something, then ur out. And no downloading files or copying over a network at the same time.

 

[PP Mguire]

I dont use x64 so i wouldnt know. And if you see my X-Fi thread i decided against getting one because of Vista drivers are horrible from Creative. I have no problems with my onboard sound and SPDIF though. And my onboard had no problems installing the last time i used x64 Vista Ultimate.