If you look at the tech demos, games can be made to run from directx9-11. like with the uningine heaven benchmarks. If you dont have a dx9 graphics card by now, you probably shouldnt be playing lfs in the 1st place.
It looks like Windows 7 sales will be very high. and demand for the 5xxx series is high (though supply is low atm)
Yep, XP64 was a sort of publicity stunt forced to release OS to support the first AMD64. Forced because they didn't want Linux to be the only OS with 64bit support.
It was never really used in the wild and so was a second class, poorly supported OS from both MS and hardware vendors.
Why would you ask a question with such an obvious answer? the developers have to take advantge of the new features of dx11, or else there will be no big difference. framerates may change a bit.
Do you know the story about Windows Vista? Microsoft wanted to replace Windows XP, so they started to work on it. After some years, they realised the project was taking more time than expected. People was tired of XP so they needed something new. Then someone had a great idea: pack everything we have done until now, call it Windows Vista and sell it while we keep working. Finally that project has been finished, and it is called Windows 7.
So, basically, Windows 7 is the finished version of Windows Vista and that's why most people complain about Vista but they like 7.
i just read some game devs say that dx11 games can be made to support dx9 cards.plus, i just ran the stalker COP benchmark, and that ranges from dx9 to dx11. where did you read that dx11 games cant support dx9?
Just curious as to what the guys outside the UK are paying for Win7 ... from what I gather from the lemmings that 'just bought regardless' about £70 ish for the basic home ...
I realise that the home pro will be £120 .. my question is ...The os it worth it?
In Spain the OEM version of Win7 Ultimate is around 150€ but since I'm Spanish I don't pay for software.
In Italy is not that easy to find the OEM version so it's around 300€ for the Ultimate...
Yes, but the DX9 implementation would share almost no code with the DX10/11 implementation due to fundamental changes introduced with DX10. Of course games can be made to run on DX8, 9, 10, 11 and OpenGL, but it's not a simple matter of toggling one switch.
You are not naming anything at all why windows7 would be any different to vista if you look behind the gui. Just stating windows7 is out-of-the-box more up-to-date than a two year OS. Well duh.. the two-year-old version needs to be updated to get it to the current standard. Some big unix-vendors do this all the time, releasing new install-media with updated OS out-of-the-box. Only difference is, they do not claim to be releasing a new operating-system. But microsoft is, successfully, doing exactly that
edit: About directx11 questions, YES i have directx11 but not yet a directx11 card. Just as it is not necessary to have directx11 capable graphics card to install windows 7.
So, the non present of horizontal-span seems not to be an argument against vista or 7 ?
I play LFS with two Monitors in (21.5" and 19") with 2560x1024 Resolution and never ever will miss this feeling.
That reminds me, Victor, could you please go ahead and remove "bmp" as valid attachment format? There is no reason whatsoever to allow it - it's just an enormous waste of space and server traffic.
My fellows got it from torrents, and I don't remember anyone to buy a new laptop recently (in which it could be pre-installed).
I have empty partitions on my HDD left for Windows, but since I changed HDD in spring, but I won't bother to install it. Using Ubuntu for 2 years, and earlier I tried Mandriva.
Windows 7 is a final product, Vista it isn't. From my point of view is like if LFS S3 Final is released and you prefer to stay playing LFS S2 Z25 Alpha
BTW MSI offeres me a Win7 upgrade for just 20€, but I won't take it since it's just an upgrade disk I have to install over Vista, it sounds dirty and messy to me
