Doobrey wrote:GeoTrail wrote:Doobrey wrote:
BTW did anyone else read a report that the latest build takes over 450Mb of ram without any apps running ???
Where did you hear that anyways?
Can`t remember the page, it was linked to from Slashdot a week or so ago. But like I said, it was a just a test build with debugger etc included.
Yeah cause Slashdot is simply the most viable source of information on the internet
Sorry, but i saw 2 weeks ago a thread on there about Half-Life 2 and Doom3 being the first ever games REQUIRING you to upgrade your PC to play.
But firstly I can remember a good number before now which have, and secondly both id software and valve software have mentioned thier products will be scalable to the point where even current low-end users
(ie anyone still using a Pentium3 + 2nd Generation Geforce/Radeon hardware) will be able to run their games fine.
Obviously you can't expect the same graphics but doesn't mean the companies are forcing you to upgrade.
It was a puff peice about how the hardware giants 'control' the software industry. Quite frankly the biggest load of bull i've read in my life from someone who no doubt is paranoid the government are reading his thoughts
Sorry but hardware developers don't make software developers want to use bettert technology... the weak software developers who want THIER game to look the best and just be totally graphically awesome will throw thousands into technology that quite frankly they don't need.
And slack on the processor requires simply because it saves a few days coding each section.
It's all a catch 22, gamers want better but don't want to wait or pay too much for them to be better but thats exactly what the developers do because they're panned by the public when they don't.
(and thus our piracy industry grows cause people aren't willing to pay for what they've demanded... kinda sick really)
And that's why you shouldn't trust everything you read on the internet hahaa
Longhorn actually uses an entirely new Kernel, so unlike Windows XP that is closely related to Windows 2000 ... this new kernel is really a complete rewrite from the ground up for stability, speed, etc...
New DirectX Driver/Multimedia System, New File System; So hopefully although it'll look like XP and have similar functionality it'll actually be the colmination of all of Microsoft's learnt lessons over the years.
For Windows users (which is really almost everyone here) this is actually nothing but good news that Microsoft were forced to take the time to sit down and completely redesign the product.
Should finally be able to compete better against the stable Unix/Irix not to mention AmigaOS which quite frankly should be what we all work from. Hehee
And i suppose *coughs*Linux*coughs* too. I still think Linux is a jumped up kiddie OS though.
