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Gamers Don't Need Vista or DX 10 Says Carmack

Posted by Zonk on from the stick-with-what-works dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes "In an interview with Marcus Yam at Daily Tech legendary PC/Console game creator John Carmack holds forth on DirectX 10: 'Personally, I wouldn't jump at something like DX10 right now. I would let things settle out a little bit and wait until there's a really strong need for it.' and then zings Microsoft's marketers over DX10's mandatory use of the Vista OS: 'Carmack then said that he's quite satisfied with Windows XP, going as far to say that Microsoft is artificially forcing gamers to move to Windows Vista for DX10.' There are a few good tidbits on Xbox 360 vs. PS3 development, and a fairly clear disinterest in Wii as a platform for his company's products is shown."

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  1. Re:Make up your mind, Carmack... by pdbaby · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing they've talked about would explain why it requires Vista... it's an API for talking to your graphics card, not some mystical operating system component like Internet Explorer!

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  2. NEDM by Lethyos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not even DOOM music could make that cool.

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  3. direct x? by Sillygates · · Score: 2, Funny

    All hard core gamers need is a unix box, and serial TTY

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