Is there a big enough difference from DX9 to DX10 for a 400$ upgrade?
That remains to be seen, but for me...
no.
Seeing the shadow of a piece of grass for the "realistic impact"... man, I can't even see the shadow of the REAL grass outside! I am playing a game to
relax, I think I still have about 2% of my imagination left that I don't have to be spoon fed every last detail in the game.
I'm not spending the extra money on a video card and O.S. to support DX-10 when I can just go get a Sony PS3 and have a BluRay player and have it be good looking and
simple.
Simple is the key. So many of these companies go wrong and have a great product (or pretty good one) then they come out with new versions, and at first they are really good stuff because they are fixing bugs, or adding improvements that they have listened to the customer about and added, you knoe,
little things.
Then, somewhere down the road (I am going to use a really great program that now I think is bloated crap... NERO), they look back and they have added everything to it, and it's almost like you can't figure out where they added all this stuff.
I mean when you buy the thing the tech support number is a plumber becasue your O.S. or your Image Editing or CD Burning software has a freaking
kitchen sink sticking out of the box!
I am so sick of Windows being slowed to a crawl because you put a CD in, and it's always, "
What should I do end user? You want me to open it, you want me to play it, you want to run this or that on it, you want to burn a CD? Yea, I want you to accept a CD
and shut the HELL up! I don't want a 10 second delay where the OS tries to figure out what it should do. I have a novel idea... I'll TELL you what to do! In the time it takes for the pause in the system I could do that! Now I know, you can set the "default action" but it never seems to shut Windows up, and there is still the pause where it checks and sees that it shouldn't do anything. Vista will probably have a feature that the computer pops up and says, "Are you
sure you don't want to do anything? Because I can do
everything... half-assed".
They leave that part out though, don't they... that it does everything, but does it half-assed. I riped on NERO, but at least they have individual programs for many of the extra crap (at least in version 6.6 - version 7 I tried and I just said forget it).
How about the image editing program that takes a day and a half to open because it is so bloated. I am not talking about Photoshop here. I expect a pro grade image editing program to have it all. I am talking about neededing a small program just for viewing files. Thank GOD I got MS though buddy. THey took care of that with the MS Office picture manager and Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Whew, took that load off my mind (now if it could just copy out of the.... j/k).
So that's my diatribe on simplicity in the industry. Maybe if MS simplified it's OS like Apple, and offered one or two varieties, and kept the price down ($150 or less), I could almost feel sorry for the multi-billionaire (who stole all of his ideas anyway) when he's carrying a viginia ham under one arm, and a butterball turkey under the other, singing the blues that he ain't got no bread.
Now I finally circled back to where we started... the incredible cost of Vista Aero Ultimate or whatever it's called when it is released.
Oh the money lost to piracy, it brings a tear to my eye matey. 
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