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Let me explain myself. I compared it to ME because everything different we saw from XP seemed to be solely cosmetic and it offers no new functionality of worth, and in some cases, makes things more complicated than they should be.Quote:
Originally Posted by dick tip pucker
I mean, it was fun when she tried to install Creative Suite and it wouldn't boot into Windows, and the computer had been on out of the box for a half hour.
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Originally Posted by portnoyd
CS on Vista? i've used CS 1, 2 and now 3 with absolutely no problems (unless you meant Xp, your poast was not very clear). and if you think Vista is solely cosmetic, you fall into that category i explained in the Vista thread in the Circuit Board. those that simply do not understand or don't care what was actually fixed/changed and only focus on the look and new "fuctions".
I installed Vista on my new PC, and I'm really happy with it. In a nutshell, it takes a lot of the things people liked about OS X and puts them on PC, like widgets (I mean, gadgets!) and attractive, well-designed, and integrated applications. Aero is a gorgeous looking interface. And I know this is kinda trivial, but I love the way it puts all my games in one easy-to-access menu. It's only crashed on me once, and that was when I was trying to sync my iPod before I had downloaded the most recent iTunes/Vista updates while running 3-4 other applications simultaneously.
It's still very fashionable to bash Microsoft, but they've made some huge strides with Vista and its related applications (especially Windows Live and Windows Media Center). It'll take time for Microsoft to sort out all the kinks, but Vista really is a huge step forward for the company. The performance of a single Capcom demo barely optimized for DX10 is a poor benchmark by which to judge the worthiness of an operating system.
Did the Direct X 10 version of Flight Simulator X come out yet?
i could be wrong but i think it was scrapped.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerodash
Side note, but the PC port of RE4 is less of a joke now. They, uh, patched the lighting and fog and whatnot in.Quote:
Capcom didn't do the PC ports of RE4 or DMC3.
It's actually pretty good looking at stupid high resolutions with max AA and AF, and the 360 controller is nice with it.
No matter how much you dread upgrading to Vista, judging DX10 based on a demo of a console port by a japanese developer is really reaching.
By this time next year, DX10 games will be putting everything else to shame and Vista will (hopefully) get its first service pack and stop sucking so much.
Just remember how shitty XP was until SP1, and Vista doesn't seem so bad.
I guess my experience is atypical, but I never really understood the hate for Windows ME. I bought a PC in the fall of 2001, just before XP came out, and it came with ME preinstalled. I ran that computer almost 24 hours a day for the following 18 months or so, and despite numerous hardware upgrades and dozens of application and game installs/uninstalls, I never once got the BSOD. In fact, it was more reliable than any of the other systems I've ever owned, including my bondi iMac (buggy POS) and my current mac mini.
I had a roommate who's machine was running ME, it was a slow piece of shit. It was an HP so odds are it was their fault, there was a ton of garbage on that thing.
DX9 vs 10 Crysis videos:
Hunter
Jungle Fight
Holy shit, if those are with the same system other than the OS.