[QUOTE=TheTalon;20394457]Windows XP is still fantastic, and it could go another 10 years easily if Microsoft wanted it to. Windows 7 Is nice, but XP didn't use slightly more than a gig of Ram just to run[/QUOTE]
That's because it's old and limited.
[QUOTE=Bomimo;20383430]xp is 2001 mate... there's no 9 yearolds here. they can't even speak properly, let alone spell.[/QUOTE]
:irony:
Boo, I like my XP.
[QUOTE=Euphorium;20395435]Boo, I like my XP.[/QUOTE]
That's how I felt, too. Then I upgraded to 7 and was completely blown away. 7 is like XP (Stability wise) , only 1000 times better.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;20395379]:irony:[/QUOTE]
sorry, gotta get one of those. i'll just grab that, thankyou.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;20394457]Windows XP is still fantastic, and it could go another 10 years easily if Microsoft wanted it to. Windows 7 Is nice, but XP didn't use slightly more than a gig of Ram just to run[/QUOTE]
Maybe you should move back to windows 95 if you're all about requirements.
[QUOTE=Slasha00;20391645]OpenGL is much more flexible and has technology for years that dx 10 had just gotten. DX10 was a huge joke, I'm not sure if you were around back then but back in the day a DX upgrade [I]meant[/I] something. Something big. With DX10 it was a laughable joke and I hope it won't be the same with DX11 (Haven't looked into DX11 yet.)[/QUOTE]
DX10 offered many improvements over DX9.
OpenGL is always unpredictable to work with because it depends more on the driver implementation than DirectX. OpenGL will run like shit on pretty much all integrated cards and can act unpredictably and differently across hardware and driver implementations.
Quite frankly, I find the people who think it's great to spread "OPENGL IS AWESOME" around like this to be quite amusing. I believe John Carmack himself said that DirectX is now too big to be ignored or something of the sort.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;20394457]Windows XP is still fantastic, and it could go another 10 years easily if Microsoft wanted it to. Windows 7 Is nice, but XP didn't use slightly more than a gig of Ram just to run[/QUOTE]
:downs:
[QUOTE=Jamie1992GSC;20381068]Eh, the game will probably suck like the first, and plus, Windows 7 is a hunk of crap. Both my rigs run games 10x better on XP than 7. Stalkers all have to be played on complete minimum on win 7, Arma 2 at 800x600 at minimum, etc, and still get low fps. Changed both my rigs to XP, and look at that, Stalkers MAXED with atleast 30+ FPS, Arma 2 1990x1080 at Medium with about 30FPS.
Kinda says something really ~IMO.[/QUOTE]
Every post made by you is comedy gold, I thank you for posting.
Half the posts in this topic are from 12 year old "know it alls".
[QUOTE=mr hobo;20380081]People need to upgrade to vista or Windows 7. XP is already/becoming outdated. Windows 7 is better in almost every way.[/QUOTE]
XP is 43%+ of gamers, most of which realize that XP is cheaper than 7 and 7 has no real advantages besides "it looks real pretty" and "it runs faster than vista".
[QUOTE=Ryx;20396426]XP is 43%+ of gamers, most of which realize that XP is cheaper than 7 and 7 has no real advantages besides "it looks real pretty" and "it runs faster than vista".[/QUOTE]
Wrong... How about DX10/11. Oh wait, everyones told you they're basically the same. Except they're not. DX10 was never used to it's full potential, and DX11 isn't even being fucked with due to the fact that developers can't bother with it knowing people are too fucking cheap to upgrade.
[QUOTE=Ryx;20396426]XP is 43%+ of gamers, most of which realize that XP is cheaper than 7 and 7 has no real advantages besides "it looks real pretty" and "it runs faster than vista".[/QUOTE]
And 61.72% of Steam users have GPUs that only support DX8 or under.
The point? A lot of people use old and terrible hardware (DX8 GPUs) and operating systems (XP).
Time to upgrade, you're using a 9 year old operating system.
[QUOTE=1/4 Life;20396454]And 61.72% of Steam users have GPUs that only support DX8 or under.
The point? A lot of people use old and terrible hardware (DX8 GPUs) and operating systems (XP).
Time to upgrade, you're using a 9 year old operating system.[/QUOTE]
not anymore, people tend to upgrade. [url]http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey[/url]
[QUOTE=Bomimo;20396512]not anymore, people tend to upgrade. [URL]http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey[/URL][/QUOTE]
I just used that survey to get that percentage. Why do you think I was so exact about it?
How about you actually read the survey?
All I seem to hear is "BAH I DON'T WANT TO CHANGE TO SOMETHING THAT'S BETTER. CHANGE IS BAD. I FEAR CHANGE."
[QUOTE=1/4 Life;20396519]I just used that survey to get that percentage. Why do you think I was so exact about it?
How about you actually read the survey?[/QUOTE]
how about you re-read it... it's like 5%
[QUOTE=Bomimo;20396562]how about you re-read it... it's like 5%[/QUOTE]
:downs:
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;20396533]All I seem to hear is "BAH I DON'T WANT TO CHANGE TO SOMETHING THAT'S BETTER. CHANGE IS BAD. I FEAR CHANGE."[/QUOTE]
Human condition.
[QUOTE=1/4 Life;20396568]:downs:
[/QUOTE]fine then, show me. and howcome you're so hostile?
[QUOTE=Bomimo;20396591]fine then, show me. and howcome you're so hostile?[/QUOTE]
5% on one fucking card. Way to read. And people are hostile because you're being ignorant, willfully.
should've been dx11 only
get rid of the casuals!
Time to start buying a new HDD and a copy of win7, that way I can still use XP or 7 for games, xp for old and 7 for new.
[QUOTE=BlueSaint;20397144]Time to start buying a new HDD and a copy of win7, that way I can still use XP or 7 for games, xp for old and 7 for new.[/QUOTE]
That's dumb. Why would you do that?
Besides, Windows 7 has Windows XP mode, so you can run your old shitty games that don't support an advanced and optimized operating system like Windows 7.
Just because they are old does not mean they are shit you ignorant fool.
I would play almost any old game over half of todays bullshit we see.
Games then were mostly original and decent.
AHEM, such as system shock 2, it hardly runs on XP, well I prob can't get it to run on win7, no way am I giving up my system shock.
[QUOTE=BlueSaint;20397196]Just because they are old does not mean they are shit you ignorant fool.
I would play almost any old game over half of todays bullshit we see.
Games then were mostly original and decent.
AHEM, such as system shock 2, it hardly runs on XP, well I prob can't get it to run on win7, no way am I giving up my system shock.[/QUOTE]
System Shock 2 runs fine here, on 64 bit Windows 7 no less. Never assume (That makes you an ignorant fool :ssh:.)
Well, fuck. I guess that means I should upgrade to Win7 then.
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And now I read that you can't actually upgrade from XP to 7 without having to manually back up all your shit and reinstall everything after installing Win7. I guess that means I'm not gonna be playing Just Cause 2.
[QUOTE=bepassley;20397066]should've been dx11 only
get rid of the casuals![/QUOTE]
If it was dx11 only, they would sell shit because quite a lot of "casuals" will buy a game where you pretty much do fun stuff
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;20396605]5% on one fucking card. Way to read. And people are hostile because you're being ignorant, willfully.[/QUOTE]
5% on DX8 or lower is what i saw. right where it says "48,94% are dx10 systems" look at the graph. stop being a douche. it's the only place they even mention DX8
[QUOTE=Bomimo;20397332]stop being a douche.[/QUOTE]
Learn to read a graph.
Don't insult and argue with people over your inability to read a graph.
[QUOTE=1/4 Life;20397337]Learn to read a graph.
Don't insult and argue with people over your inability to read a graph.[/QUOTE]
what is your problem? it's a graph showing the changes over 18 months and RIGHT THERE at "dx8 GPU or lower" it says 5.66% no where at all on that page does your number pop up.
in fact, your statement is ass. 99.90% of steam users support dx8...
[QUOTE=1/4 Life;20397337]Learn to read a graph.
Don't insult and argue with people over your inability to read a graph.[/QUOTE]
I don't know if I missed a graph or something, but this is the only graph about DX8 I see.
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/hws_graph_directx.gif[/IMG]
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