Gamers Don't Need Vista or DX 10 Says Carmack

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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[Gr8Apes]

Pretty funny. I won't get Vista for probably quite a while. Vista just isn't important to me for anything I do, and I haven't played the last 20 games to completion that I bought, so until I actually complete (or even start a couple) there's no reason for me to migrate to Vista.

As for the hardware, the DX10 cards (nVidia's 8800 GT'x' series) are awesome performers, but they're awesome even with XP, ie, do not require Vista. So the hardware gains seem to be available without DX10 although DX10 may expand on what's available.

Regarding Jobs and a mac, I bought a mac just as 10.3 was released (a PowerBook). I bought it partly because I wanted a nice small laptop that did a few things. It turned out to do most of my home needs so well that it took over all photo/video/mail duties from my Intel system. I just recently bought the Macbook Pro. Here's where it gets good. Despite years of MS indoctrination that caused me to "migrate" my PB account to a separate account the first time, I repeated the migration and my MBP account was exactly like my PB account, complete with all programs, settings, everything. To say it raised an eyebrow was an understatement. MS OSes can't even migrate accounts between two copies of the same version of the OS on the same platform, much less between two different platforms, with different OS versions and different application versions. Even my secure wireless settings were transferred.

That's why the Mac is gaining traction. It just works.