Friday, May 25, 2012. Report 3

[Feathered_IV]

DX9 is important for the very large flight sim market in eastern Europe.

[ATAG_Doc]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

DX9 is important for the very large flight sim market in eastern Europe.

why?

[Feathered_IV]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc

why?

Lots of customers, but few high end computers.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

DX9 is important for the very large flight sim market in eastern Europe.

Got any proof of this ?




This thread needs a chart............




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[addman]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Got any proof of this ?




This thread needs a chart............




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No it doesn't, the average yearly income in Russia, as of May 2008 (yes it has probably inreased a couple of dollars by now) was $7,680. This and the fact that computer components aren't much cheaper than in the EU for example makes building a new beefy rig an enourmous financial undertaking for even a normal income person in yarn old Federation. It seems a lot of people on this board aren't aware that there are poorer people than themselves in the world, especially in former Soviet countries, that strikes me as very ignorant. How can you be surprised that DX9 is still being supported for CloD? Do you think MG are only making sims for the wealthiest few in the west? lol to that!

[Buchon]

Trough DX9 only cards are not supported :

*SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS AT TIME OF RELEASE:
ATI® 4850/4870/5830/5850/5770/5870/6870/6950/6970
NVidia®: 8800/9800/250/260/275/285/460/465/470/480

[Buchon]

We have to look back to understand why is there a DX9 support.

At the time of release Win7 was not wide adapted by the users, Vista ... well ... was Hasta la Vista , so there was a wide base users with XP.

Madoxx attended this users claim and released the game with DX9 support stamped in the box.

The real problem now is that you can´t go back and release a official patch now without DX9 support because the Steam Auto Update will break the game for those who are using the game in XP, meaning are playing in DX9.

[BlackSix]

About Win XP and DX9:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operat...sp=149&qpnp=11
http://gs.statcounter.com/press/wind...ime-in-october

Win XP has approximately 40-45% at present. It's very much.
Therefore we must support DX9 now and in the near future.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by BlackSix

About Win XP and DX9:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operat...sp=149&qpnp=11
http://gs.statcounter.com/press/wind...ime-in-october

Win XP has approximately 40-45% at present. It's very much.
Therefore we must support DX9 now and in the near future.

Yes BlackSix, but these are global statistics, including also my grandma's PC. I believe that the gamers' PC's, and even more the simmers' niche, have a fair better % of Vista and Win7 OS.

Cheers!

[Buchon]

Originally Posted by BlackSix

About Win XP and DX9:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operat...sp=149&qpnp=11
http://gs.statcounter.com/press/wind...ime-in-october

Win XP has approximately 40-45% at present. It's very much.
Therefore we must support DX9 now and in the near future.

Be aware that those numbers includes office machines and a wide range not used to play, according to a Steam survey the XP users is about a 14.90% :

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Windows 7 64 bit have a 53.86% and Windows 7 32 bit a 14.65%.

That sum a 68.51% for Win7 and DX10/11 while DX9 have a 14.90%