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by GlassWolf » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:12 pm

no openGL support means if you play a game that's made for openGL, like say, UT2004, you'll take a 25% hit to performance right off the bat. Maybe more.

by solacedagony » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:47 am

GlassWolf wrote:MS dumped openGL support in favor of going strictly Direct3D in Vista. Not kidding.
So can you still play games in OpenGL or does that OpenGL support have to be in the OS to make it work? Or do you mean for the Windows GUI, they went strictly OGL?

by Ryan from Ohio » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:01 am

Tis the season for computers I guess.

My Uncle just stopped up. He said hes tired of his computer (my old one!) and is looking to buy another in the $500-600 range.

So far its between these few:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 6700050006

http://www.officemax.com/max/solutions/ ... 1611553615

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product. ... id=5533609

Im leaning towards the Acer/Best buy one or the E machines/Wal Mart.

Probably more towards the Acer since it provides a better integrated video card ;)

Thoughts?

by Darthness » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:03 pm

brtnboarder3241 wrote:if anyone was listeing earlier..sdlvx pretty much points all that out.
and? :thumbsup

by brtnboarder3241 » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:43 pm

if anyone was listeing earlier..sdlvx pretty much points all that out.

by GlassWolf » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:38 pm

MS dumped openGL support in favor of going strictly Direct3D in Vista. Not kidding.

by Darthness » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:14 pm

btw, anti microsoft movements have been around for a long time. a company founded on lies, is it so hard for some people not to hate them?

by Jonathan » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:06 pm

Bwcad1 wrote:im so tired of the ANTI MICROSOFT/INTEL boners.

He probably types this from Firefox :p

j/k

I do like a lot of aspects of Linux systems, though. It's exceptionally stable, secure, tech support is great, can run on a wide range of hardware, interoperates with other systems like Windows 95/NT, Mac, Unix, IBM OS/2, Netware. There are advantages to open source-tens of thousands of programmers have reviewed the source code to improve upon it, where no other OS has undergone that level of review. It's like having a democracy, except the only ones that can participate and make a difference are intelligent people that actually understand how it works :thumbsup If only America were like that :bow ;)

by Darthness » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:54 pm

jesus, linu supports moe than vista!

by solacedagony » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:30 pm

GlassWolf wrote:no OpenGL support in Vista at all
You're KIDDING?

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