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It is certainly better here than other places I could mention, but he has insinuated things I could do without in this or that thread (whether trying to be funny or not, it's unnecessary.) The reason I have a hard time taking any forum dicussion about 8 seriously (even knowing many of you do use a much newer OS) is the number of people who still think XP is the greatest thing since sliced bread. They're usually the ones I consider technologi

Reply to RTS’s aren’t dying. They’re waiting in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Fenix34" reply="47" id="3325895"] Well it could probably play them decently now. But the entire game would have to be designed for the console in question. Strategy game ports from PC to console usually do not do well because of the totally different control schemes.[/quote] The PS3 supports KB+M as I recall, and all the C&C games between 2 and 4 (3, Kanes Wrath, RA3 iirc) were on the X360. Never tried them of course.

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="369" id="3326007"] what amazes me in this Thread is I give specific, concrete, real world example of Windows 8 issues and they get dismissed and ignored by its proponents. I'm pretty sure I've got at least as much, if not more, Windows 8 hours as anyone in this thread. I don't have some problem with change. I know how to use it. But it invariably takes more steps to do the same common tasks as previous versions.[/quote] You gave

Reply to EA: "all our games" will have microtransactions [retracted] in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="G_Bison" reply="10" id="3325457"] For my self, I went over to Origin to play Command & Conquer, and after 90 minutes of play I really couldn't do anything else without buying anything, so in order to really defend my self, I have to buy tanks and what not to be safe. Because in 8 hours I will be pushed to the world butt-naked with only rocks to throw. To me, that's not fun... Edit: Sorry, I have until 3/5 before I get attacked, unless I do f

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[quote who="ARESIV" reply="332" id="3325349"] Dirext X.... is a API... nothing more... nothing less. Windows XP is quite capable of using Dirext X 10 or 11..... it is merely Microsoft didnt wanted that back then... because it desperatly needed something to sell shitty Vista to people. You know they ported Dirext X 9 to Linux... speak about an OS that is different from the very core architecture. 32 Bit.... ahh yes.. of course... but if i look arround an see all those mob

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[quote who="ARESIV" reply="319" id="3325218"] Why are you happy that XP dies? [/quote] Because its been holding back gaming for years? It's a ball and chain on the industry, that they could just undo if they wanted to but they're afraid of pissing anyone off. Same as DX9 and 32 bit OSes and the Xbox 360 and PS3...though it's harder to let go of those until the new stuff comes out

Reply to EA: "all our games" will have microtransactions [retracted] in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

The thing is, all their games already have this ability. I'm not really sure he said anything meaningful there.

Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Either way it'll take time to find out. I just think people are a bit quick to jump to conclusions. If they do stick with the Store being the only normal way to get stuff I'd expect the cost of Windows to drop dramatically. Either way I'll be extremely happy next year when XP effectively dies out. (Blue sounds cool too, another note. Free kernel upgrade. Right on. Wish I knew more about it, but I can wait.)

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[quote who="Daiwa" reply="314" id="3324885"] Quoting Savyg, reply 313that's hardly a black box For now... Cynic that I am, I'm not bettin' the farm on it staying that way.[/quote] Me neither. I expect they just haven't finished the new installer.

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[quote who="petrossa" reply="311" id="3324846"] I didn't confuse anything. WinRT will replace in time Win32, after which it'll be a blackbox as i described. There is no other way forwards for MS. W8 is dead in the water and no tweaking that mess is going to get it alive. [/quote] There are officially documented methods of sideloading apps. It's actually pretty easy to do. The Windows Store is certainly going to be the default meth

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[quote who="petrossa" reply="309" id="3324670"] WinRT is a way to control application delivery to your system. Nothing will run in the WinRT box that isn't signed by Windows Store, i.e. for which you pay MSTax to download. I paid MSTax for 20 years for MS-DOS i never used, no way i'm going to pay any longer. [/quote] As I said, Windows RT is not WinRT. And you can run unsigned WinRT apps on a desktop.

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IE10 is damn good for a change. I haven't been arsed to switch back from it to Chrome at all.[quote who="kryo" reply="36" id="3324576"] Unfortunately since IE8 isn't going anywhere yet, it's just one more version to support.[/quote] True, but that's your decision. Google already told IE8 users to piss off. It actually shocked me anyone was actually willing to take a stance on supporting browsers until the end of time.

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[quote who="kryo" reply="307" id="3324531"] - WinRT is the solution to a problem (terrible Win32 APIs) that doesn't exist on a blank slate like a new console (unless they choose to make it so), and significant portions of it aren't terribly relevant to a console. They can of course just use it as a contract with an entirely custom underlying implementation specific to the Xbox's OS and architecture...[/quote] It'd also be a common thread between tablets, PCs

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[quote who="kryo" reply="304" id="3324503"] Quoting Savyg, reply 301If MS is going to use WinRT for their future console as I suspect Current rumors are that the next Xbox will be x86 based like the PS4... an ARM-based "next-gen" console wouldn't really make sense.[/quote] I said WinRT, not Windows RT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRT

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You'd be a real dork to hook up any machine with those, so what's yer point? [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="299" id="3324470"] The issue Windows 8 has 'at launch' is genuinely solid competition from Windows 7 itself. iPads or 'Android' are irrelevant to OS take-up on a PC. All Windows 7 had at launch was a wonky Vista....so it was warmly welcomed, and rightly so. The whole issue re Windows 8 is it's bastardisation of a good OS so as to accommodate universality over all uses. In truth it is the epitome of

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I mean I could go into Windows 7 at launch not having solid competition from iPad or Android for computing, I could go into any number of other things that have already been said, but that's what we've been doing since October already. It gets old arguing like children over personal preference. It's the people arguing that their opinion is the only one anyone should ever have that bug me, personally.

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="296" id="3324454"] How much of the Industry needs to be seen quaking before 'the industry is quaking' becomes a reasonable comment?[/quote] How much of it is quaking? Acer? Acer? Acer too? And probably Acer?

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="293" id="3324409"] And yet, after #291 there will still be several respondents who will declare Win8 is fantastic. It's actually a selfish opinion - to say Win8 is great - FOR ME..... while the entire computing industry quakes at the reality of reduced sales success even in SPITE of the insanely low initial purchase price of 8. Clearly MS knew they had screwed up...even before release...and the low price was the hit they were willi

Reply to Surface RT Sucks in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

It's more hover in the corner and move up or down, but I can't edit posts anymore :p Whee!

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Also, it does have a concept of closing programs. I don't know how to do it with touch, but on the PC you just hover to bring up the task switcher on the left and right click on whatever WinRT app you want to close. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/07/improving-power-efficiency-for-applications.aspx In the second sta

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[quote quoting="post"] Oh, the final insult is of course Windows 8. It has no concept of "closing" a program, so start enough of them, and you zap the battery real fast. Which kind of defeats the purpose of a tablet (at least one major part of it). [/quote] Actually it does. If the app is not in focus it will suspend, thereby using no resources or battery whatsoever.

Reply to SSD Write Speeds Cut In Half in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

SSDs have more issues than understood by most people. My Revo doesn't have TRIM, and when you do a specific utilization pattern it will practically freeze up (20mb/sec writes) until it can do a proper GC pass. Often the speed will be reduced if you go over a firmware hardcoded limit, and when things get fragmented they're still going to slow down SSD or no. There's even counterfeit Flash in some cases <a href="http://thessdrevi

Reply to Xbox 720 Announcement Coming in April? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I completely understand if you think I'm taking a less than subtle dig at Stardock with that first point, but it's not about that...it's practically the entire industry still doing it.

Reply to Now Here's a Novel way to Get 'Touch' in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I still haven't seen this mythical touch UI, so I can't see a problem either [e digicons]:grin:[/e]