The Crystal Ball

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Originally Posted by CWMV

So what, you think a new game should be designed for an obsolete, dare I say dinosaur of an OS?
Really, what's more laughable than that?
Next try running you Chevy cavalier at the indy 500...

so i guess cuz xp is a dinosaur OS and win Vista is newer OS it should automatically be better and all users should have migrated towards Vista cuz Xp is a dinosaur....sorry just cuz XP is a dinosaur dosent mean it is no good....the only thing XP might not do as well is handle new technology...up untill recently most games wouldnt even use more than 2 cores properly...although i agree that the user was a bit foolhardy thinking it would run on his system...

[mazex]

When I run the game in DirectX 9 I get half the frame rate and nasty artifacts... They really should drop the Dx9 support which seems to be the problem to get running well for them. Others like DCS A-10 that run on Dx9 does it great but in this case I feel that they are wasting their resources on that... It may be that there are more people in Russia still on XP so they would loose to much potential customers there?

Anyway, if XP would have gotten Dx10 and 11 I'm pretty sure it would have outperformed Windows 7 with a percent or two in titles that are not heavily multithreaded (which few are). Less HAL and other stability improving stuff is always good for raw performance...