Originally posted by sandman:

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Remember: There is no ?Dx10 only? game currently available. The 2 pathetic attempts by microsoft were Halo 2 and Shadowrun, both of which run flawlessly on XP with minor modification. (Upon closer look, it was found out, that both of these games actually run on Dx9 programming. All they had was a ?lock protection? preventing them to install if Dx10 was nos present in the registry)

The whole deal with Crysis Very high settings, was a business deal between the Crytek team and Microsoft, in which MS offered a big cash settlement to Crytek if they would agree to ?lock out? the very high settings under Windows XP.

Thank God for Intelligent Hackers who have brough this into the light. Somebody should really sue Microsoft for these practices of Bribery and corporate corruption. I guess nobody is brave (or dumb?) enough to tackle a Monopoly like Microsoft.

Other games which offer a ?Dx10 mode? like World in Conflict and Company of Heroes expansion, prove that the visual diferences are totally neglectible. They are hardly noticable. Definitely nothing Dx9 can?t currently do. Yet, they do strike a very noticeable performance hit in games, due to Vista sucking in much more resourses then XP.

I?m 100% sure there is currently nothing Dx10 can do, that Dx9 can?t replicate. No new graphic technology has come out to justify the existance of Dx10, much less ?Dx10 only? software.

I?m not saying that Dx10 will never take off and actually start offering significant graphic advances and performance enhancements over Dx9 (I really hope it does), but it has been almost 2 years since the release of Vista and dx10, yet we have seen NOTHING to justify an upgrade. All we have seen and experienced with Vista are lower performances, hardware and software incompatibility and overall inestability.

Microsoft should get their act together and offer a new OS that is actually an ?Upgrade? from our current OS. Something that is more resource efficient, more stable, and offers significant advantages over older OSes. What pisses me off is that instead of doing this, they try to Force users into changing by willingly disabling features in games and software, so that they will not function anymore in XP.

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