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My 8800 GTS wasn't _that_ expensive

* vaccination waits for Crysis

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Originally posted by Jhrono

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Originally posted by Verte
2. You NEED DirectseX 10.

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You do? Since when? There's nothing on the market that makes any use of Direct3D10 yet

Gotta say I love your way of saying DirectX.. DirectseX lol

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I was enumerating reasons you might need to upgrade to Vista, with the suggestion that you can put it off while XP is working fine for you. It's a fair amount of money for a change of drapes, and there are probably better things you can get out of that much cash- especially if your critical apps aren't yet ready for it.

I hear someone hacked DX10 support into XP today, it will only be so long before there's an add on for wine

thanks for all that John
well needed in-depth on Vista

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Originally posted by Verte
it might be worth saving the jump until the code has had time to settle.

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Yeah. And I personally didn't like XP at first even though I had to use it (I was dead tired of 98 and well, don't get me started on ME ). XP looked good and all but wasn't perfectly stable. Anyway, SP2 came along and made it the best Windows OS there was. It was pretty stable. No BSODs in the years that I've put it through hell. It even performed well. And by the time SP2 came out, most apps had perfect compatibility. I might be mistaken but I think SP2 had better Compatibility support. The original XP version never worked for me. After SP2 I could run old games under Compatibility mode. So it was all good.
All I'm saying is, let the whole thing settle down. Maybe future updates might just take it to the next level, as it happened for XP
Its just my opinion but I like Vista at release more than XP at release. Despite the bugginess and the odd BSOD (mainly non perfect drivers like the ones for NVIDIA but they are fast improving ) I still like vista more Despite the fact that lopardo will continue to disagree with me meh.

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Originally posted by Jhrono
You do? Since when? There's nothing on the market that makes any use of Direct3D10 yet

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Actually less than a week back, the first game using D3D10 was released! Its on the NVIDIA site but I didn't have time to read