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Windows 8 - Yea or Nay?
jwhouk:
From TechPaul:
--- Quote ---Windows uses a system of software for handling multimedia that it calls “DirectX”. DirectX is responsible for how video is displayed, 3D graphics are drawn, and how music is played. Because of this, it is responsible for how your computer games appear on your screen (as well as other things).
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Bluesummers:
Ahkay...so, why the big deal that Win7 doesn't have 11.1, only 11.0? It seems that the newest OSes will have the newest stuff on them...you wouldn't run a Win95 computer with Firefox 13.0, would you? (you would? WHY.)
ackblom12:
It's planned obsolescence. There's no real reason why Win 7 couldn't run it other than MS is forcibly future fucking those who don't upgrade. Developers and consumers both.
snalin:
When they pulled the "games for windows live only runs on Vista" back when Vista was fresh, it just made me not buy those games until there came out a worthwhile OS. There's too many old, great games I haven't played that won't require the new DX.
Also, do I know Valve right, they'll probably make sure games on their platform still runs on W7. GOG will probably do the same. And, seriously, any release that's not being released by Microsoft will run on W7 (and probably also XP), as the other big publishers has no gain from forcing people to use 8. This isn't a problem unless you really want to play the latest bad port of an xbox-game.
Case in point - I've been playing both Civ5 and Shogun 2 lately, and both can be played both with DirectX 9 and with 10/11, to ensure that both xp and Vista/7-users can play.
riccostar:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 12 Nov 2012, 17:13 ---It's planned obsolescence. There's no real reason why Win 7 couldn't run it other than MS is forcibly future fucking those who don't upgrade. Developers and consumers both.
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clever bastards... I'm sort of upset with microsoft for this now
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