whats with vista

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Soldier34
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whats with vista

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I don't have vista, but I tested it out at the store, and except for different icons, it doesn't seem any better or worse. Who the hell is buying this if they don't need a new computer?
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Post by Denz »

DX10
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Post by Turbine »

Nothing runs on DX10 yet.

And the minimum requirements for games double when you install Vista.
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Post by Denz »

Personally I'm happy with XP. I only have vista so when DX10 games do come out I'm prepaired. Other than that my Vista install has nothng on it, yet.
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Re: whats with vista

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Soldier34 wrote:I don't have vista, but I tested it out at the store, and except for different icons, it doesn't seem any better or worse. Who the hell is buying this if they don't need a new computer?
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The merge to Windows Vista is inevitable. I doubt there are many people rushing to get the retail, though.
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Post by Grudge »

Been using Vista since Janurary. It's working great for me. Many small improvments make it worthwile.
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Post by werldhed »

Vista is great. Obviously there's no rush to go out and buy it, but it'll come around.
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Post by plained »

i doen like waiting .2-.3 for a fucking window to open.

or any of that other slow shit
it is about time!
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Post by Doombrain »

it's not slow, your PC is slow.
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plained
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Post by plained »

vista works fine if ur slow!
it is about time!
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Post by Denz »

Vista is just as fast as XP.

Your high dude.

Ofcourse my score is 5.0 :D
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Post by dmmh »

plained wrote:i doen like waiting .2-.3 for a fucking window to open.

or any of that other slow shit
that's what people said when XP came out.

'I dont need it. win2k FTW, bla bla, I'll never switch'

now everbody is on XP.

Guess what?

In a year or so most people here will be on Vista.

get with the times or dont whine if your PC cant handle it?
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Post by plained »

yea i know that .

and i have it on a new machine too already. mind it is a lower end proc in threr its a t5500 with 2gmem.

it does it all mostly fine but i guess i miss that instant'icty i used to have in my amiga and my os8-9 mac.

hehe but yea you prolly right to a degree about me being old-man apprehensive.

so i come off like so
ol time plained wrote:you young punk vista kids stay the fuck offa my old prick xp lawn!
:olo:
it is about time!
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Post by dzjepp »

then go back to the amiga ey whos stopping you :shrug:

fuck might as well start computin on the altair 8800 :drool:
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Post by plained »

i do amiga'ing all the time :shrug:

i got a 2000 and a 3000 hehe
it is about time!
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Post by Tormentius »

Turbine wrote:
And the minimum requirements for games double when you install Vista.
Bullshit. Games run just fine with Vista on my 3.0ghz/HT CPU and that isn't exactly new tech.
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Post by Glockg »

vista is ok with 2 gigs of ram and amd64 an above
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Post by AmIdYfReAk »

Denz wrote:DX10
XP + DX9.0L = DX10

Old news.
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Post by dzjepp »

I thought that I read MS saying those 9.0L rumors where false :o
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Post by Captain »

Not gonna happen, Amidy. That was just speculation. DirectX9.L only enables DX9.0c support for Vista. There won't be any DX10 for XP.
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Post by dzjepp »

There is a guy working on a project to port dx10 to xp, but that will take a long time to be anywhere as good as vista's dx10, if ever :)
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Post by Captain »

Yeah I've heard about that, I meant officially though :)
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Post by seremtan »

dzjepp wrote:There is a guy working on a project to port dx10 to xp, but that will take a long time to be anywhere as good as vista's dx10, if ever :)
yeah, seen that

shame OGL isn't more widely used
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Post by Turbine »

Well I just got a new computer 2gigs ram AMD 64 bit x2 core and runs alright but it seems slow.

The way Vista looks to me, is like microsoft decided that in order to look new and and innovative, they took all things familiar with any Windows edition and decided to mix it all up, change the way you do a most basic task. All your natural Windows instincts are riped apart in Vista.

So I guess it seems slow because you literary have to stop and think about what you want to do and how to do it.
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