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Quantum:
I'm not going to be buying Vista till they have DirectX 10 on it. I really like Vista but I don't think it is worth as much as it costs at the moment, I'm just installing RC2 as we speak, the previous build (the one after RC1 but before RC2) still had a lot of issues in it that I really didn't like.

I really hope that the final build will be in much better shape but I don't have a lot of confidence just yet. Also I'm used to XP taking up a small % of my hardware capacity, I was planning on building another computer before I get Vista, probabily something with native quad-core, maybe AMDs K8L thing they have hopefully coming out next year, with a bit of luck be able to grab some DDR3 RAM as well.

chip!:
According to Wikipedia, Direct3D 10 Beta is available as of Windows Vista build 5238.. which would explain why DirectX diag tool reports that my DirectX version is 10, while the DDI version of my display driver reports 9Ex (extended version of Direct3D 9) but is supposed to contain the same management/shared architecture as dx10, allowing for much greater reliability and stability because of the Vista Display Driver Model.. anyway, holding off until dx10 comes out 'officially' seems to be kinda odd since backwards compatibility with dx9 will only be through a layered model, resulting in slower performance, which I would assume would be an issue if the main use of dx10 will be for gaming..  which, i assume again, will take a while until games are actually programmed for dx10? especially since dx10 will require a dx10 card, and there's only 1 of nearing ready for release (GeForce 8800), I imagine it will be a good 6-12 months until dx10 starts to catch on.. i'm sure gamers will upgrade as soon as titles become available with dx10, but what about mainstream..  I for one dont really game anymore, at least not on my pc..

edit side note:   400 watt power supply units will be required for the low-end G80! holy crap, while this card is in fact impressive beyond anything even close, i'm more interested in how long it will take until even a low-end dx10 card is made for the mobile computing market.

regarding RC2 and bugs.. i've still noticed a couple. but its definitely better than RC1 (i didnt test any of the builds between them) but one bug I noticed still in RC2 is that when you right click a file in Explorer that has been hot-tracking highlighted, but does not have 'focus', the context menu for the file will not always appear.  but none the less, I deem this version stable and usable enough to the point that I really don't want to go back to XP ;)

Quantum:
400 Watts is no big deal, most cheap cases come with a PSU that's 400 watts.

The 8800 is the only card announced so far, but soon ATi will announce their R600 series and when the cards hit the market it won't take long before there all kinds of various versions, the 8600, the 8300, the ones which take GDDR4 and therefore save on power, the dual GPU architectures, the quad-SLi support etc.. etc..

PC gaming is a big thing for me, so is having a fast computer, I from time to time do a lot of heavy mathematics on my computer. In about a year or so I plan to build a new killer computer to replace this one, till then I'm not so sure Vista's extra power required to run and new weird bugs it introduces are really worth the fact I can open apps much faster with searching the start bar and everything looks prettier is quite worth it.

However, when the OS has been running for 6 months or so, Microsoft has quashed all the major initial bugs that people will be giving them bad press to start off with, applications start seriously taking advantage of Vista’s new features, then I’ll probably jump on board with a new computer and all.

chip!:
Haha... I just had my first BlueScreen crash with Windows Vista..  you'd think after 5 years they would have at least made the bluescreen look pretty :)  but nope, same old screen..




Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   BlueScreen
  OS Version:   6.0.5744.2.0.0.256.1
  Locale ID:   1033

Additional information about the problem:
  BCCode:   127
  BCP1:   87665000
  BCP2:   00036675
  BCP3:   00000000
  BCP4:   00000000
  OS Version:   6_0_5744
  Service Pack:   0_0
  Product:   256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
  G:\Windows\Minidump\Mini101806-01.dmp
  G:\Users\ninja\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-43812-0.sysdata.xml
  G:\Users\ninja\AppData\Local\Temp\WER941D.tmp.version.txt

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Quantum:

--- Quote from: chip! on October 18, 2006, 03:14:33 pm ---Haha... I just had my first BlueScreen crash with Windows Vista..  you'd think after 5 years they would have at least made the bluescreen look pretty :)  but nope, same old screen..

--- End quote ---


Go to Control Panel, go to Fonts, select "Add new Font", the windows is still the same one from Windows 3.1  :-\ (unless they changed that in RC2, but when the bug was filed one Microsofts pathetic attempt to compete with Bugzilla, a devloper just responded "By Design" and locked the bug).

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