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Old 08-01-2008, 02:45 AM
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It stuffs up as an Operating System because it uses DirectX to render the entier GUI, which uses more RAM, more CPU and requires that you have a 'DirectX compatible' video-card, the only up-side area of Vista is when you are a system administrator, you have more control (as in Security Options, ect...).
I heard about that. A low cost computer can use an integrated motherboard video for non-grafix intensive applications, and be used at low cost by many including businesses, but Vista itself is a grafix intensive "operating system" forcing high video costs on everyone. Is this Correct Thinking? Or would Vista have some option of doing away with the bloated grafix UI?
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Old 08-01-2008, 02:53 AM
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I guess you guys were left out of the looop...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-wish-for.html
Very much so. Windows 7 instead of Vista?

I would have gone to Linux by now if I knew StrikeFighters could be run on it, its a pure DirectX game. I know FB/PF does well on Linux. I always said that if Linux application developers stopped trying to score brownie points with "businesses" and make Linux the most popular -- and "secure" -- gaming operating system, business would follow. Gamers grow up to run businesses.
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Old 08-01-2008, 08:08 AM
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Oleg has already said SoW:BoB is an OpenGL application. The whole DirectX discussion is moot. Might as well put your tin foil hats away, stop waving your arms around in a panic and read what Oleg has already said about SoW.

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I heard about that. A low cost computer can use an integrated motherboard video for non-grafix intensive applications, and be used at low cost by many including businesses, but Vista itself is a grafix intensive "operating system" forcing high video costs on everyone. Is this Correct Thinking? Or would Vista have some option of doing away with the bloated grafix UI?
Vista used a GUI called AERO. Its not that graphically intensive and its not that bloated either. The system overheads are negliable. You can turn it off, in fact it does turn off when it encounters an application it can't work with. After working with Vista for some time now Its not actually all that bad. XP64 is still the most stable Windows OS but Vista, while quirky works ok.
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Old 08-01-2008, 12:10 PM
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Agreed Mondo. This is just forum-fodder. Oleg has stated at leasta couple times that his next iteration (read:SoW) will be DX9 and fully compatible with WinXP.

Vista is the 2008 version of WinME. Leapfrog it and wait.
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Old 08-01-2008, 10:30 PM
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Vista is the 2008 version of WinME. Leapfrog it and wait.
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Old 08-02-2008, 11:53 AM
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Agreed Mondo. This is just forum-fodder. Oleg has stated at leasta couple times that his next iteration (read:SoW) will be DX9 and fully compatible with WinXP.
Good to hear.
I want my gameport support, at least until my stick breaks.
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Old 08-02-2008, 10:25 PM
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I'm not the only one who missed Oleg's poastings on this. So I have not foddered our forum after all. Glad I could be of assistance, and thanks 56! That's good news to bear and to hear.

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