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Windows Vista: worth the money?

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Alegis:
Take the upgrade versions. I believe Vista home premium upgrade is $100 (American), going all the way up to more expensive Ultimate upgrade ($259). It's worth checking out what every version offers.

I'm not saying you should buy it blindly. I love it, I'm sure some may not. But for example lists as Paul Thurrot's site are great references.

the_tard:
Judging by the site, this is a prettier windows XP that supports direct x 10. The only forseeable differences other than that were very vague, just repeating over and over that it was "more convenient". All the other things it lists I've already got (DVD/CD burner, WMP, stuff like that). I really want to get that Crysis game thats coming out because it looks sweet but I don't really want to go buy a new operating system specifically for one game...

P.S. If you like shooters check out this new crysis game on google vid, the physics are nuts but the video doesn't make the graphics very flattering. Allow me to post a screenshot.



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*drool drool*

Spike:
Another thing to remember about Direct x 10 is that not only do you have to buy Vista, but you also need to buy a video card that can handle Direct x 10.  That's not going to be a huge problem right away because direct x9 isn't going to magically disappear after direct x 10 comes out, but eventually support for it is going to disappear. 

When the first of the Direct x 10 cards come out they are going to be expensive, so if you want to get a hold of a decent card that won't cost you 200-250 dollars you're going to have to wait for the new generation to drive down the prices on the old generation.

supersheep:
OK. At first I thought that was a photograph. What the hell? I've seen video of Crysis, but that takes the biscuit. That is more beautiful than a beautiful thing in beautyland.

mqarcus:

--- Quote from: Storm Rider on 23 Dec 2006, 07:38 ---In terms of gaming, Vista will be the only OS to support DirectX 10, so when games start requiring that, you'll have to upgrade. But for the most part, I don't think any major PC games on the horizon are forcing that upgrade yet. Crysis is the only one I know of that's being built around DX10 right now.

--- End quote ---

I'm not quite into this, but I guess SOMEONE will make some kind of port to run DX10 on old XP.

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