[Disillusion]

Originally Posted by Apokalipse

But I do think that:
a) either DirectX 10 should be made for other OS's. if it included Linux, that would be great - though Microsoft won't allow that, because then they wouldn't sell as many copies of vista
or
b) OpenGL should be used a lot more

I'd go for option B. Do you really think M$ is going to give away the ALL MIGHTY DX10 for free?! That's blasphemy. :laughing:

[CalcProgrammer1]

For saying DX10 is better than OpenGL, I give you a few questions:

1.) I have a year-old Radeon card. It shouldn't be considered "obsolete" but DX10 only runs on what? GeForce 8800GTX or Radeon HD. How can you consider that "good" when a year-old card can't perform well with the new software.

2.) If OpenGL is so bad, why can I run a 3d game in Wine, on top of Compiz, and still have the Euphoria screensaver all run on top of each other, and not lag? How can I do this all on an nVidia GeForce4 MX420 with only 64MB of RAM?

3.) If DX10 is so great, why is there no fancy 3d effects in Vista? Sure, Aero took most people by surprise, but when you put it next to Compiz Fusion, it is nothing special. If DX10 is better than OpenGL, it'd make sense that DX10 based desktop effects would be a lot better than OpenGL based desktop effects.

The only reason I can see that companies stick with DX10 and Micro$oft is a history of providing for Micro$oft and the userbase. If game companies made some Linux-only games that people liked, people would be forced to install Linux on their machines. This would increase the Linux userbase.

The only issue I can see is either parents who have no clue what an OS is and don't want their kids messing up their business and email PC with a "foreign object" or users that don't know themselves what Linux is or how to use it.

[Apokalipse]

Originally Posted by Disillusion

I'd go for option B. Do you really think M$ is going to give away the ALL MIGHTY DX10 for free?! That's blasphemy. :laughing:

not necessarily Microsoft. but other people who reverse-engineer it.

[CalcProgrammer1]

Hopefully they'll figure out how DX10 works and implement a workalike in Wine, then we can play DX10 games on Linux PC's, and not have to worry about the system resources being used up by Vista.