Author Topic: XP vs Vista (Read 3292 times)

Skuzzy · « **Reply #15 on:** May 16, 2006, 02:50:01 PM »

Poorly worded. A year after the release of Vista, there could be a DX10 game ready.

Yes, there are a couple of games MS wants to see on DX10 as soon as they can. It is why the DX10 SDK has already been released. They know the faster they can get the top 10 titles on DX10, the faster Vista will have to be adopted by the gaming community.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 16, 2006, 05:20:51 PM »

So when is that new Linux version of AH coming out?

Btw, if you really want to avoid Vista, Microsoft has had an alternative since they introduced XP.

Microsoft.com

Krusty · « **Reply #17 on:** May 16, 2006, 07:18:56 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Edit: Krusty, the physical address limit on the x86 architecture is 4GB. To get past that, the motherboard has to support PAE. And the OS has to support is as well.

What is PAE? I don't recall reading anything about it in my motherboard's documentation. I have 4 slots, and a 4GB limit, but it would be nice to plop in 4x 2GB sticks, or as time passes 4x 3GB sticks (lol! I wish!!!

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Krusty · « **Reply #18 on:** May 16, 2006, 07:23:20 PM »

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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
Btw, if you really want to avoid Vista, Microsoft has had an alternative since they introduced XP.

Microsoft.com

Yeah, but can you play games on it, or does it have the same problems as other linux types? The only benefit I could see MS bringing is hardware support similar to Windows.

Oh, and they had me interested, UNTIL I read this blurb at the bottom:

"MS Linux is released under the provisions of the Gates Private License, which means you can freely use this Software on a single machine without warranty after having paid the purchase price and annual renewal fees."

It's $250.00 to buy the dang thing, and they want you to RENEW it every freakin' year? Dubya-Tee-Eff!

EDIT: Unless it's a joke page. I don't know, I've never heard of anything like it before, so it could be legit it could be a gag.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 16, 2006, 09:48:56 PM »

Read the quotes on the left.

Brenjen · « **Reply #20 on:** May 16, 2006, 10:38:57 PM »

It's a joke page...didn't you read on the right hand column about the Microsoft mars monkeys being trained to reboot the spaceship when they get the blue screen of death on their way to the red planet to set up trading colonies etc etc:lol

Speed55 · « **Reply #21 on:** May 17, 2006, 07:03:12 AM »

If AHII is the only game i use my pc for, will i still have to upgrade, or more like downgrade from what it sounds like, to this Vista crapper?

NattyIced · « **Reply #22 on:** May 17, 2006, 07:32:38 AM »

Krusty - Here is a MS technote on PAE : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;268363&sd=tech

Please do NOT try to do this, this is for informational purposes only.

Ghosth · « **Reply #23 on:** May 17, 2006, 08:17:59 AM »

No speed, as a matter of fact you can still run AH in Win 98 if you choose.

Deth7 · « **Reply #24 on:** May 17, 2006, 09:58:09 AM »

Sticking with win98 and win2000 till the last possible moment........

Skuzzy · « **Reply #25 on:** May 17, 2006, 10:50:23 AM »

We currently have no plans to migrate to DirectX10. As DX10 would only be available to Vista users, the community would hang us from the nearest tree.
DX9 based games (like ours) will run on all MS OS's, right now.

Krusty · « **Reply #26 on:** May 17, 2006, 11:06:43 AM »

Well that PAE thing was interesting, but what if the documentation on your motherboard says its hardware limit is 4 GB? The software might support more, but the hardware won't. Is there a way around that?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #27 on:** May 17, 2006, 11:09:57 AM »

Nope Krusty. The motherboard has to be designed to be able to address more than 4GB, and the BIOS has to support it as well.

Bronk · « **Reply #28 on:** May 17, 2006, 11:17:57 AM »

Along the lines of how much ram.
I currently have 1 gig of 3200 ddr. (2 512 sticks) and have 2 slots open.
If I were to add 2 more 512 sticks would the ram jump back to single data rate?

The mobo documentation is worded kinda funky.
MSI neo4 plat.

Bronk

Krusty · « **Reply #29 on:** May 17, 2006, 12:15:52 PM »

It depends on the ram you put in. If you've got matched pairs in slots 1 and 3 now, you should have dual channel. If you put a matched pair in the other slots (2 and 4) you should retain dual channel. If you don't match them they may revery to single channel.

However that does not stop it from being "Double Data Rate" -- as that is the type of RAM archtecture you're using, not the way it's installed.

You should be good.