Ram

[meshuggahs]

Originally Posted by OldBuzzard

I guess that would have left out those dinosaurs that are still running XP, but that POS OS needs to die anyway.

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?

[OldBuzzard]

Originally Posted by meshuggahs

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.

[meshuggahs]

Originally Posted by OldBuzzard

Maybe if you include business, but for gamers...Look at these STEAM stats:
Like I said XP needs to DIE! It's SO 20th Century.

So even on pro-gamer segment its almost 25%! That say's something imho.

Tho overall I blame the consoles that new games are made for old hardware.

But yeah, 64bit is among us finally. Maybe we'll see some true 64bit games in the next few years and not just 32bit ones patched to 64, which is +-0 useful.

[Warhound]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

all my 12GB of ram is going to be used for pure CLODit?

Which current game DOES use all your 12GB's of ram?
Most new ones I know cap out well below 2gb's

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Many debates about Ram and how much CLOD use's. In the recent interview at Simhq Oleg stated that updating ram will improve performance if you only have 2GB. Luthier as also stated that there are no issues with ram, so can someone tell me how I will know that all my 12GB of ram is going to be used for pure CLOD goodness and not just 2-3GB of it?

Your going to need a full 64bit app and operating system for that, otherwise 4gb is about the most that will be used if you have a 64bit OS and as others have mentioned CoD uses less than 3gb.

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

how I will know that all my 12GB of ram is going to be used for pure CLOD goodness and not just 2-3GB of it?

Wow 12 Gb of ram. Sounds like someones trying to compensate for something...

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by Oldschool61

Wow 12 Gb of ram. Sounds like someones trying to compensate for something...

When IL-2 was released you would have said, "Wow 256 Mb of ram". The point is future-proofing.