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Newell: Vista-Only DX10 "A Mistake"

[Aug 28, 2007, 11:32 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Gabe Newell: DirectX 10 for Vista was a mistake quotes Valve's Gabe Newell decrying Microsoft's decision to make DirectX 10 exclusive to Windows Vista as a mistake that's harming the PC gaming industry (thanks Slashdot):

In an interview with heise online, Gabe Newell, president of Valve Software, said that Microsoft made a terrible mistake releasing DirectX 10 for Vista only and excluding Windows XP. He said this decision affected the whole industry as so far only a very small percentage of players can use DirectX 10.

When developing cross-platform games which are also released fo Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, developers look for the smallest common denominator. And since neither Microsoft's nor Sony's new consoles support Shader Model 4.0 for DirectX 10, only few games use it, he said.

In addition, Newell bemoaned the increasing lack of input device diversity in PC gaming culture. He would like to see controllers like the Wiimote or the Guitar Hero guitar, but since DirectX support for devices like these had increasingly been reduced over the last few years, developers didn't dare implement these expensive innovations.

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Aug 28, 2007, 21:10

WaltC

I disagree with you on one of your points. Games that run on win98 and windows xp never really ran better on Windows xp. I think that over time people installed better hardware and it made it seem that it ran better under windows xp.

Larry, I would only say that "better" certainly means different things...for instance, even in cases where the XP frame rates never exceeded Win9x frame rates, in the early days of XP many complained about XP because the frame rates were lower than they were used to under Win9x, when running the same games. That did not remain a complaint for long as XP driver development progressed, and that was the main point I wanted to make--eg, the same will be true of Vista driver development.

As well, of course, there's just no comparison between the stability of the XP system while gaming and the stability of Win9x--XP was and is way, way "better." Thankfully I cannot recall all that clearly how many crashes I endured through Win9x because of buggy drivers and buggy game code that, over time, became a thing of the past under XP. It's nice to be forgetful about things like that, I think...;) I think that Vista will continue to improve on even the comparative stability offered by years of XP driver development.




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Comment [quote="WaltC"Aug 28, 2007, 21:10]i[I disagree with you on one of your points. Games that run on win98 and windows xp never really ran better on Windows xp. I think that over time people installed better hardware and it made it seem that it ran better under windows xp.]i Larry, I would only say that "better" certainly means different things...for instance, even in cases where the XP frame rates never exceeded Win9x frame rates, in the early days of XP many complained about XP because the frame rates were lower than they were used to under Win9x, when running the same games. That did not remain a complaint for long as XP driver development progressed, and that was the main point I wanted to make--eg, the same will be true of Vista driver development. As well, of course, there's just no comparison between the stability of the XP system while gaming and the stability of Win9x--XP was and is way, way "better." Thankfully I cannot recall all that clearly how many crashes I endured through Win9x because of buggy drivers and buggy game code that, over time, became a thing of the past under XP. It's nice to be forgetful about things like that, I think...;) I think that Vista will continue to improve on even the comparative stability offered by years of XP driver development. [/quote]

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