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or maybe both. I have feeling that some gamescould be broken because of the glass effects and other crap, because drivers will broke the game in order to render glass effect and who know what else...

Do you really think that OS should be a reason for your video card to heat up, and waste a resource. I think Vista is just wasting the system resource where underneath all of that has any better functionality then Windows XP, or should i say Windows 2000 ?

Seems to me that Vista = Hollywood and I don't need it...

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I already have the hardware, and Vista (ATM) isn't anywhere near as intensive as any modern game, and I doubt it ever will be. I'm pretty sure final LDDM drivers will work fine with DX9 games.

Extra eye candy at virtually no performance cost since I already have the hardware is something I won't complain about

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Im no expert in vista, but im sure i read somewere of it having a game mode, where when you load your game up, it unloads all the effects, and uses all power for your gaming.

Somebody correct me if im wrong!

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You're post is a little hard to follow, but I think I get the jist of what you are asking.

Windows Vista's windows manager needing video hardware acceleration seems like a waist, but it may not be after all. Think of lower end Pentium 3 machines currently running Windows XP. The GUI is being rendered almost 100% by the CPU, distracting precious cycles from the processor that could otherwise be performing non-graphical operations. Graphics card doing more of the windows managing seems like a pretty good idea to me, as it will be distributing your system load across all your hardware.

What Microsoft is asking for is pretty cheap as far as hardware goes. You can get a bottom barrel nVidia card (say Geforce 2 or 4 mx w/ 64 MB of ram) or an ATI Radeon 9200 for about $50. Adding one of those to a Pentium 3 may yield a greater performance increase for a lot cheaper then upgrading the board, CPU, and ram.

I haven't tried any of the betas. Even so, who knows what the end results will look like.

-nic

Edit: well Geforce MX won't work because of DX9 requirements...but still :p

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As far as video games go: i'm sure microsoft will make sure all PC games will run as well if not better in the final of Windows Vista as they do currently in Windows XP. The PC Gamer market is really what is giving Microsoft the edge right now. The business market is still Microsoft's sugar daddy, but I think more and more business applications are moving to more cross-platform friendly infrastructures like Java or just "the Web." But they will have PC Gaming for awhile.

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Don't worry about gaming. Most of you worry too much over things like this. Microsoft aims to keep Windows as the industry standard OS, both for work and gaming.

It is HIGLHY unlikely that Glass will hog all the power of your GPU at the expense of games.

Just wait and see. Gaming on Vista will not disappoint.

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