Originally posted by SoulSurfer

I have a coupon for 7, when it comes out in October.  It was part of the package deal for the free upgrage even though I had purchased Vista for the time being.  I don't have any games to load on it except for Aion, and it runs the school software ok so all is well. =)

For all you XP fans:  Don't you want to upgrade to direct X 10?

mm i got dx10 and something is good to have only if you can use it 

most f2p to my knowledge are dx9,ddo is the only one i saw yet with dx10

in p2p even there there arent lot of game that support dx10 and those that did aoc had issue for an insane long while and had to remove dx 10 support for a long while

Windows 7 pro 64 or ultimate, anything else is fail.

I'm using win 7 pro 64 (Legit copy) obtained from a friend in college. Haha, I got it for FREE. Saved myself 150 or whatever from amazon 50% sale thing.

It is usergasmic efficient and doesn't fuck things up like Vista and performs better than XP. I have no errors running anything, including certain games using gameguard.

Before that i was running vista business 64.

Windows 7 is gonna be the best OS for gaming purely because of how it handles resources.  If you cannot wait until October, then the next best option is Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit.  Getting Windows XP at this point is a waste of money.  With Windows Vista you are going to get all the functionality of Windows 7 without the more effecient resourcing.  With a modern system, that being one with atleast 4 GB ram you won't have the problems many people attribute to Vista.

With Windows Vista you are going to get DX11, you also have built in virtualization that makes running 32-bit apps in a 64-bit environment possible.  At this point there really is no reason to get Windows XP.  With DX11 its going to be downgradable to DX10.1 and DX10 without any extra work for the developer.  As a result many developers are going to immediately transition into DX11 and skip DX10/10.1 altogether.  If you have Windows XP you are going to be left out.  Ontop of that, the transition into a 64-bit OS is starting to become mandatory.  As new software gets more resourceful, there is a greater need for more then 3.8GB ram.  Top range Video Cards pack 1GB standard now.  Since Windows XP doesn't make use of virtualization, its impossible for its 64-bit version to run 32-bit drivers and applications.

Windows7 is probibly the way to go. Vista is about the worst OS I have run on a pc yet. The old 'M.E' version was better than vista. I have been putting off re-installing XP to get away from the Vista hangover, by reminding myself only a few more months, only a couple months, now only a month and a bit...and Win7.

Vista isn't too bad when you first install it. Once you get rid of all the annoying security.But the longer you run it...the more you grow to hate it. The incompatability issues, the constant hangs, the resource hog, the lost files, the lost settings, the bugs, ugliness....I could go on....

I seriously wonder...how did MS release such crap? And then make us wait for how many years before finally bring us an updated version of XP?

My latest copy of PC Gamer just arrived today. It has a pretty good article about Windows 7. Its a good sized article but the jist of it is that it has the good points of Vista without the hassles and memory consumption.

Originally posted by Printscreen

Windows 7 pro 64 or ultimate, anything else is fail.

I'm using win 7 pro 64 (Legit copy) obtained from a friend in college. Haha, I got it for FREE. Saved myself 150 or whatever from amazon 50% sale thing.

It is usergasmic efficient and doesn't fuck things up like Vista and performs better than XP. I have no errors running anything, including certain games using gameguard.

Before that i was running vista business 64.

WOOT! to you sir.  =)

Man, I'm excited for 7

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