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No XP Battlefield 3?

[Jan 02, 2011, 1:53 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

A tweet from Johan Andersson from this past summer offers a revelation not noted here at the time, as the tweet seems to confirm rumors from 2007 that the Frostbite 2.0 engine that will power the upcoming Battlefield 3 will not support Windows XP, saying: "Frostbite 2 is primarily developed for DX11. XP & DX9 is _not_ supported, 64-bit OS is recommended. Lots of time to upgrade if you haven't!" The thread about this on the Electronic Arts Forums also has comments noting this was revealed already, and there are slides in DICE's SIGGRAPH 2010 presentation indicating Frostbite 2.0 will only support DirectX 10 and DirectX 11. Thanks James via BF3Blog.

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110. Re: No XP Battlefield 3? Jan 3, 2011, 14:39 SpectralMeat
 
xXBatmanXx wrote on Jan 3, 2011, 14:30:
So they make so many diff flavors of OS for Windows, why not make a streamlined Gaming OS? The market is big enough, why couldn't they drop that Windows uses 60% of your RAM and load even when idle and push that towards the GPU/CPU for gaming?

.....

Because there isn't all that much money in PC gaming for Microsoft. They make far more money off the console gamers with a lot less effort. Every single Xbox game carries a $10 royalty fee that goes directly to Microsoft's pocket, not to mention the Live Gold subscription fee and all the money they make on the stupid DLC on consoles.

Maybe there is a lot of PC gamers out there but the money Microsoft makes on PC gamers is far less than on console gamers. 		 
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