Vista SP2 Beta This Coming Week

[SwaleSmith]

where can when can we expect to see this beta update

 

[Rastalovich]

As a beta, it`s not something that will present itself to the average end user for download to their pc.

Ur best bet would be to search the m$ site for details.

 

[PP Mguire]

DX10 was just a marketing tool. It has hardly any use in the real gaming world as 95% of people cannot actually run it while keeping a good frame rate and not a single game has come out which is "full" DirectX 10.

What I mean by "full" is a game which cannot be hacked to work in DX10 mode in XP. Crysis = Hacked, Halo 2 needed DX10 but then people realised it was only DX9.

Vista is a useless OS as XP can do all the things it can quicker and if Microsoft think the gaps between OSs are getting smaller they will be the ones to lose out as businesses will not be able to keep up with the change. My Dad runs this company and they have yet/will not update to Vista as they have no use for it. Slows the PCs down and filled with incompatibilities what for? A new look? Wooppeee.

We all know Microsoft gets a huge percentage from businesses so they cannot work like this.

Vista is just a stepping stone between XP and 7. Though we don't know if 7 will be any decent yet.. fingers crossed.

Bold statements considering i play everything maxed out DX10 with my system

Have you tried Vista post SP1 Tox? For anybody wondering here are my specs

5600+ @ 3.3ghz

2x2gig G.Skill Pi Black @ 1000mhz

9800GTX+ 800/2000/1100

Vista Ultimate X64

I play EVERYTHING maxed out DX10.

I think Tox needs to try Windows Mojave

Listening from people in the know Windows 7 is Vista/XP Kernel designed with multithreading and DX11 in mind. So yet another Nvidia special. (rehash)

 

[mikee]

Bold statements considering i play everything maxed out DX10 with my system

Have you tried Vista post SP1 Tox? For anybody wondering here are my specs

5600+ @ 3.3ghz

2x2gig G.Skill Pi Black @ 1000mhz

9800GTX+ 800/2000/1100

Vista Ultimate X64

I play EVERYTHING maxed out DX10.

I think Tox needs to try Windows Mojave

Listening from people in the know Windows 7 is Vista/XP Kernel designed with multithreading and DX11 in mind. So yet another Nvidia special. (rehash)

surely you cannot play crysis maxed out with that spec?

 

[Toxcity]

surely you cannot play crysis maxed out with that spec?

No one can... not much point either.

You get it running well(ish) and you just spend your time looking at a tree because it looks nice then you quit because it is a boring game.

I have tried Vista post SP1.. and still find it to be a waste of my hardware. It isn't just the performance of games I don't like it is the desktop performance. I don't like how it "feels" if you get me?

 

[Zoot]

Anyone remember the days of Basic?

... it had bad programming written all over it...

 

[Bungral]

Windows 7 isn't going to be DX11... It's DX10.1 with 11 to maybe come later.

 

[Rastalovich]

We all (if we`re upd8d) have "10.1", it shows up as something like 10.0.1.xx or something silly like that, MS didn`t and won`t bump the revision to 10.1, as u would see in a usual Dxdiag windows as it`s inclusion isn`t perceived as that big a developement.

 

[Bungral]

I know what you're saying but this is how it's being marketed!

 

[Rastalovich]

How poor is the english on that screen ?

 

[Chris1303]

Spelling & Grammer check wasnt working that day obviously.