Windows Vista, so... whats it like? Options

[Tartan Bunny]

I might get a new laptop with Vista.
Someone persaude/dissaude me.
Found something useful called vista transformation.
downloads the toolbars, screensaver etc. from vista.

[DeathRay2K]

and i thought supcom already featured DX10?

No, and some devs are now saying that it probably never will.

[offtopic]About DX10, Chiel I know you have it, with your 8800 GTX.
What is so special about it?? Why does every card support DX9 and only those newest cards DX10??
And I've a problem with a DX7 .dll, but I'll post that in Support[/offtopic]

Because DX10 is newer, the cards that don't support it don't support it because they came out before they could support it.

As for 64-bit Windows:
Right now, I've got an AMD 64 X2 w/ 4GB RAM... I can't make full use of it because a lot of things don't support the 64 bit version of Vista. And this isn't the only unsupported thing... Vista x86 doesn't support more that 2GB RAM either!!! They probably did this intentionally for reasons unknown to me. XP x86 didn't support more than 2GB either, but XP x64 did. Now they came with Vista, with the same problem!

That's because a 32bit OS only supports 32bit memory access, meaning 4GB. However, 2GB of that is reserved for device interfaces.
There is a way to use an extra GB, just Google it.


I fully recommend Vista, but I would recommend getting the retail copy so you can use the 32bit version now and the 64bit version later when its better supported.