Oh god no.

Dark Avatar runs on Windows 98 even.

Thanks,

B

And that's why I love you guys, but with the Vista ad on the front page I can see how someone could be confused. Hell, I'm confused.

Go look at wincustomize.com, and the confusion will be relieved

oh don't get me wrong. I think Windows Vista rocks.

But as a game developer, I don't use technology for the sake of technology. I use technology to make a game. There's nothign in Vista I need to maek the games I want to make.

Well I guess I over reacted. But my first thought was, if they're flying the banner for Vista, they must be thinking about creating upgrades/updates in the near future that would require x10...

Well I guess I over reacted. But my first thought was, if they're flying the banner for Vista, they must be thinking about creating upgrades/updates in the near future that would require x10...

Thats not a bad thing imo. It's about time strategy games put more focus on state of the art gfx and for the future dx 10 is what you want if you want the best gfx.

Head over to tomshardware guide and read one of the articles explaining why dx 10 rocks.

What is there in Windows Vista that I cannot do with Windows XP (and my Mac)?

Easy answer for that: DX 10.

Micro$oft is one greedy company but they KNOW that within a year or two almost all games will take advantage of DX 10 and you as a gamer will miss out if you dont have a DX 10 compatible system, which unfourtanely means Vista.

But for a year I think we will be good without it, and hopefully by then the prices will have dropped some. Both for Vista and DX 10 compatible gfx cards.

I think the divide between OS' will grow even bigger with Vista. The PC could be a platform that encourages compatibility and open standards, but instead MS closes their new OS further and makes it more difficult for other OS' to integrate and implement across the platforms.

Vista will likely push many away, including yours truly, with it's draconian licence policy (a licence which is most likely illegal in most western countries and wouldn't hold up a day in court if someone were to challenge it).

DX10 is overhyped to the extreme. It'll be at least a year until games utilizing it's full potential begin to surface. It also hinders innovation by the graphics chip manufacturers because now it's DX10 and MS who decide what goes and not. For game developers this is music to the ears. For the hardware innovators not so much. This would be okay if it was an open standard, but it's not.

In my opinion DX10 is unnecessary bells and whistles. Stardock and other indy developers have proven that graphics alone doth not a game maketh. Look at the casual gamer market. The casual gamers will most likely never, ever need DX10 and there are more of them than there are of us "true" gamers.

In a few years time the gfx-card may even be dead and burried. With the arrival of multi-core systems the graphics calls may be handled internally in the CPUs. Who will then decide which API it supports. I hope it's not MS or any other corporation. We need an open platform, not a closed one.

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