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bill_the_one




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PostPosted: Sun, 7th Jan 2007 15:04    Post subject: Good PC Games : Hibernation til March , Vista now ?? ;-)
So, as the title says , i think we can now hibernate 'til March before we see good pc games released (STALKER ?,...) and all good DirectX10 titles have been pushed back (Crysis, Hellgate London Crying or Very sad )

I'm just wondering if it will be worth switching to Vista in Febrary since no title will take benefit (except if Directx9L runs faster the Directx9 games but id on't know Confused )

Hmm, this becomes more and more confusing ... Laughing
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proekaan
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PostPosted: Sun, 7th Jan 2007 15:10    Post subject:
Don't know about you,but the end of january and february are full of great games...just look at the upcoming pc games topic...Razz

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Malveous




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PostPosted: Sun, 7th Jan 2007 20:48    Post subject:
I think switching to Vista will be worth it. Mostly for my case. I've had Vista as my main os since it was released RTM. Problem is, I forgot the auto-windows-update thing and well, Microsoft found out my version is not genuine. It's not much of a problem but more of an annoyance as I cannot play any game in fullscreen mode. It has to be windowed and for a few games there is just no windowed mode. Sad In the end, I'm unable to pretty much play any games up until February where I will buy a Vista license key. Of course, I'm not gonna spend 600$ on an OS. The license key should do and it doesn't cost that much, maybe 150 or so.

It will be a long time before there a good games taking advantage of DX10, the good thing is that Vista is far better than XP when it comes to working with an OS.
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pikachupi




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PostPosted: Sun, 7th Jan 2007 21:26    Post subject:
i woulden't rush to vista..let it run for a while and maybe later.

and yes...preety dry without new good games Sad - i saw the topics with the upcoming stuff - but i am into shooters - and only the shield - Action Adventure Third Person ,maybe will get me into it ,also Biker Mice from Mars maybe intresting for me altough-the graphic is not looking very good. the last one for january that may itrest me is:"Alien Shooter 2" also on some release dates sites Jade Empire (Special Edition) still on january 2007 so in case it will show's on january-it will be cool but others show february - so..not too long to wait anyway:) and for feb also :"Test Drive Unlimited " and :"Frontline: Fields of Thunder " and all this untill stalker...kinda weak opening for 2007- but i know alot of good games should be out later this year-here cool link for upcoming stuff:

http://www.tothegame.com/gamebrowse.asp?sort=title&letter=all&page=1&sortdir=asc&platform=pc&category=11&status=upcoming
&territory=eu&image.x=34&image.y=4

upcoming games under categories. Very Happy

btw-another great game i am looking for - (but this one will come at the end of 2007) is :"Crazy Machines 2"

http://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/pc/screenshots/g/crazy-machines-ii-170573.html

and...you will find this link usefull too:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1073842430
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Slim12345
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Jan 2007 00:57    Post subject:
Alien Shooter 2 is was allready out like 5 months ago
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Dunge




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Jan 2007 01:03    Post subject:
Slim12345 wrote:
Alien Shooter 2 is was allready out like 5 months ago


I see a demo version and a Alien.Shooter.2.GERMAN-SiLENTGATE .... no english release. Wasn't even aware a sequel was in production that's good Smile (but gfx aren't).

As for Vista... I have ultimate x64 installed since RTM release (activated with KMS) and I ain't had much troubles (except trackmania nations and runaway2).... go for it if you have compatible motherboard drivers!

Oh and about using Vista for DX10... if you don't have DX10 hardware it's not worth much isn't it?
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Karmeck




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Jan 2007 12:58    Post subject:
"Oh and about using Vista for DX10... if you don't have DX10 hardware it's not worth much isn't it?"

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Slim12345
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Jan 2007 13:43    Post subject:
Karmeck wrote:
"Oh and about using Vista for DX10... if you don't have DX10 hardware it's not worth much isn't it?"

8800

i will say ATI ... after AMD took ATI under their wing the new ati cards are faster then Geforce , the next winner will be Ati with they dx10 cards and drivers , yeah i know now Nvidia has the lead , the same thing was with Voodoo and Riva
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upstart_69




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Jan 2007 15:55    Post subject:
Karmeck wrote:
"Oh and about using Vista for DX10... if you don't have DX10 hardware it's not worth much isn't it?"

8800


Hmm..well except there is no vista driver for the 8800 yet. And nvidia is dragging their feet on coming up with a date, saying its still in QA until an unknown time. Which might be because MS hasn't even completely finished dx10 for the now shipping vista. All rumor and conjecture at this point, but I havent seen any site with any hands-on testing with games running dx10 drivers, even pre-beta ones. Besides that there isnt going to be a game to use any part of dx10 until late spring, if not summer. So the whole dx10 thing is no reason to upgrade, yet, even if you do have the hw for it.

But aside from that I hear Vista handles multiple cores much nicer than XP. So that might be a deciding feature for me to install it sometime soon anyways.
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pumbertot.1




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Jan 2007 17:27    Post subject:
yeah no 8800gtx vista support yet but i think it will appear on vista offical release(not business users) of 30/1/07.(fingers fucking crossed).
still upgrade to 8800gtx is still worth it as everything(apart from the bugged games) runs very fast,faster than x1900 crossfire(ive seen this personally).and if you got lucky on a good 2nd hand one like me, i made a profit selling both x1900s. Wink

G80 vs R600 debate, well nobody has seen this hands on so people only guessing by the R600s supposed capabilites. also its been delayed until March now, fuck waiting until then if you want cutting edge now.
Just my 10p worth...............................
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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Jan 2007 17:56    Post subject:
I see these for NVIDIA but it only mentions the usual 7800 and 7900 high end chipsets in the release notes so it's probably not for the 8800 series.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_97.46.html

Kinda have to release something soon as Vista is launched at the 30th this month. Confused

Unsure about early vista experiences but there was probably similar issues when people switched from 98/ME to 2000 and XP.
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