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Old 03-29-2011, 09:08 AM
OldBuzzard OldBuzzard is offline
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Originally Posted by meshuggahs View Post
After 10 years of service Win XP is still the most used windows OS. So in no way POS.

Why do you think we're still stuck with dx9 as minimum requirement in all games?
Maybe if you include business, but for gamers...Look at these STEAM stats:

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WINDOWS VERSION OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB

Windows 7 64 bit 35.04% 35.88% 36.14% 37.30% 39.02% +1.72%

Windows XP 32 bit 27.88% 26.75% 26.26% 24.95% 23.59% -1.36%

Windows Vista 32 bit 14.34% 14.29% 14.27% 14.05% 13.47% -0.58%

Windows Vista 64 bit 9.11% 9.89% 10.23% 10.73% 11.35% +0.62%

Windows 7 12.40% 11.91% 11.79% 11.59% 11.22% -0.37%

Windows XP 64 bit 0.81% 0.84% 0.92% 0.95% 0.95% 0.00%

Windows 2003 64 bit 0.30% 0.33% 0.28% 0.30% 0.29% -0.01%
And, if you look at this page you will see that almost 62% of Steam users are using Dx10 and Dx11 GPUs.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Like I said XP needs to DIE! It's SO 20th Century.

Last edited by OldBuzzard; 03-29-2011 at 09:14 AM.
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