Recent content by ANova

It would just be a waste of time listing off reasons, especially to someone who can't figure it out for himself.

Spare me the inane pestering. I already explained my position on the matter, go back and re-read what I said. I never complained about anything being broken and I do not complain about things being fixed. I'll tell you what I'm tired of seeing, people jumping to conclusions and lumping others...

:lol: I'd like to hear more about this. Nv's escapades are always entertaining.

I never whined about not having DX10, like I said, I really don't care about a few new effects in some games. Willard simply used it as a justification for his argument. Games aren't going to require Vista/7 anytime soon (aside from maybe a couple here and there whose developers are paid by...

WDDM allowed for some improvements but it was at the cost of compatibility. Those benefits are not all that impressive imo. Games run slower in Vista/7 than XP so any performance improvements are moot. No, I will not 'upgrade' my operating system for the sake of it as I do not find it to be...

It's already been ported to XP, by a third party (though somewhat buggy). Do you honestly believe it would have been so difficult for MS? WDDM wasn't even technically necessary, they created the new model to try to standardize features and performance, other composited desktops such as Quartz...

I think you misunderstood, I was referring to the fact that MS purposely chose to end support for DX10 and beyond in XP in favor of their new OS because 1. they didn't want to spend time and money making it backwards compatible and 2. they used it as an incentive for people to buy their new OS...

They are a little better but not by much. UAC is pretty easy to spoof, especially in 7 and it's also possible to disable it. All software can be hacked and cracked, that's the nature of software. I disable UAC because I find it a total nuisance and would rather be in control of my own...

Oh please stop with the progress nonsense, it's just directx. I don't give a crap if 10/11 adds a couple more minor effects, hell I barely play games anymore and being a minority is fine with me. Blame Microsoft for ignoring XP so they can sell more windows licenses.

Exciting times.

You'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands. :wink: 7 still feels slow to me even though it's a huge improvement over Vista and XP is so much more customizable. I'm dual booting but XP will still be my primary os, at least for the foreseeable future.

What's so great about the X38 over the 965 or P35? For $200 starting price, considering you can get decent P35 boards for around $100, it better offer more than just pcie 2 support.

I'm sure ATI is aware or currently in the process of figuring out the bottleneck in the design and plan to do their best to rectify and maximize performance for the refresh, the question is whether or not it will be possible to do so without a costly rehaul. At this time it seems rather...

Couldn't...agree...more...

No clue on monthly but according to the activity logs I've recieved 2.8 GB and sent 3.4 GB in the last ~2 days, and that doesn't include the other family computer which is networked. It would vary widely though, sometimes I only visit a couple of websites and other times I probably use in the...