I just want DirectX 10 for XP. it would solve all the gamers problems.

I more than agree with the ghost-like person who's post is aboce mine!

DX10 is over hyped. To see the difference from dx9 to dx10 you would have to buy $500 video cards. Not to mention it will still probably lag considering that vista is a resource hog :P Hell my friend lags out on crysis on the same settings as me while in vista with his $500 8800gt sli setup. My 3870 handles the game fine in server 2003. No real differences gfx wise, just an over hyped engine. No game dev at the moment is really taking advantage of the dx10 engine anyways. I heard that there already developing dx11 :P

See the thing is with things like this there isn't that much of a step up but if you were to compare DX 10 to DX 8 there would be a huge step up. (Sort of like comparing xp to 98 and ME.)

lol compare dx8 to dx9 and you'll see a huge difference as well :P No to mention that there's still tons of useless crap running in the background while your in vista.

yea DX10 is pretty much useless and has no notable difference in game play when compared to DX9, I have Crysis and have vista business and XP Pro on my computer and the only difference from one to the other is on vista you can use very high for the settings and XP just plain old high settings to which there really isn't much of a notable difference to me if any. so OS politics aside I just go by what I see and from what Ive seen there isn't any justification in spending the money on vista if it's just for DX10 and I'm glad I managed to get my copy of it for only $50 or I might be a tad on the pissed off side.

Heh, it does seem like DX10 is more of a vista push issue rather then a real thing worth having.

I wanted to get Halo to for the PC, but Microsoft HAD to make it vista only! HELL NO!

i know dx is kinda useles, but i still want it.

Once vista gets sp1 fully up and going il prob put it on another partition to test it. Ill prob just strip ity of all of the fancy pants themes and background services that arent needed and run the core. If thats unstable im just gonna skip over vista and wait for the next ms os to come :P

let me know how it goes once y ou do that spoon, I've been considering vista and once the service pack is properly tested, i gotta think it'll be a lot better

yeah, windows blackcomb/vienna should be pretty nice, even though we have almost no idea what it'll be like. It'll probably be a memory and cpu hog though.

of course its microsoft what else is new lol

lol so yeah I tried to get vista installed and the 64bit version installer is retarded. It couldn't even find the damned CD drive that it booted from. The only solution would be to rip out a bunch of cables in my cramped case and switch the ide ports.

Meh screw it. I'm boycotting vista and waiting for their next pile o' crap os to hopefully not be as big of a disappointment.

yea personally service pack or not you may as well wait for the next OS to come out rather then spending X amount now only to have them phase vista out due to failure among the fact that as soon as the new one is out they will probably try to sweep vista under the proverbial rug anyway.

shouldn't be to long. windows is hoping to start releasing a new OS every four years. Though with that said, I'd imagine the OSs will be less of a big jump from one another.