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espylaub · Post by **espylaub** » 08 Oct 2006, 13:07

So, anyone get their mail yet?

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 08 Oct 2006, 15:01

The beta won't be for another week at least. With people being contacted before then. Possibly.

Mars Keeper · Post by **Mars Keeper** » 08 Oct 2006, 15:23

I haven├é┬┤t been contacted, all we can do is hope.

...Or assasinare and steal identitys of people who got in...

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 08 Oct 2006, 15:33

damn, That was MY plan.

bamb · Post by **bamb** » 08 Oct 2006, 16:59

KDR_11k wrote: Unless I can shoot that friggin dog (that thing that always pops up when you press search asking you what so search for, BECAUSE I'M OBVIOUSLY NOT LOOKING FOR FILES WHEN PRESSING SEARCH IN THE FILE BROSWER, RIGHT?) I won't even take it for free. Yes, I hate that thing so much. KILL!

I use 2000 for mainly the same reason. (There are loads of other stupidities in XP too.)

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 08 Oct 2006, 17:19

Heh, When vista comes out, You can no longer play games. Hehehe. DX10 is vistsa only, Which means any DirectX10 game will not run on Xp or less. It *MAY* un on XP, If microsoft makes an emulation of it. Which they said they would.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 08 Oct 2006, 18:56

Drone_Fragger wrote:Heh, When vista comes out, You can no longer play games. Hehehe. DX10 is vistsa only, Which means any DirectX10 game will not run on Xp or less. It *MAY* un on XP, If microsoft makes an emulation of it. Which they said they would.

No. You can play HL2 on a computer that can only run DX6, it just looks hideous. DX10 games will rarely not have backwards compatibility modes, they just will only look the best they can in DX10, and will preform more smoothly in that environment then other less robust environments.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 08 Oct 2006, 20:03

Cherubim wrote:
KDR_11k wrote: Unless I can shoot that friggin dog (that thing that always pops up when you press search asking you what so search for, BECAUSE I'M OBVIOUSLY NOT LOOKING FOR FILES WHEN PRESSING SEARCH IN THE FILE BROSWER, RIGHT?) I won't even take it for free. Yes, I hate that thing so much. KILL!
Actually thats quite easy to switch that dog of and enforce W2K search style.
Its the first thing i do when reinstalling.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState]
"Use Search Asst"="no"

Ah, okay, guess I'll grab a copy from the RZ tomorrow, then.

DroneFragger wrote:Heh, When vista comes out, You can no longer play games. Hehehe. DX10 is vistsa only, Which means any DirectX10 game will not run on Xp or less. It *MAY* un on XP, If microsoft makes an emulation of it. Which they said they would.

That is assuming developers are willing to make games that only run on a tiny subset of the computers out there instead of going for a MUCH bigger market and making their games compatible to both. It's commercial suicide to make a game that will only run on PCs bought within the last few months.

SwiftSpear wrote:DX10 games will rarely not have backwards compatibility modes, they just will only look the best they can in DX10, and will preform more smoothly in that environment then other less robust environments.

According to MS DX10 changes so much that there is no compatibility between it and earlier versions, a game needs to use two different code pathes in order to run under both. Not like that's going to be a big hurdle, many games already use both OpenGL and Direct3D under Windows and it won't take long until SDL will support DX10 as well.

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