Yes Crim, although right now, that only means games like Halo 3 (for which, there's cracks to allow them to play on XP).

I simply believe we're not at the point yet where Vista is necessary. You mention DX10. For one, games that get a DX10 boost (like Crysis) don't really need it. I bought myself a 8800GT OC, and while all the Very High settings are locked and require DX10, the High settings make the game frigging beautiful enough. And besides that, what it takes to run the game at Very High settings would be insane.

And secondly, I've read that just using DX10 causes a frame rate drop.

See, one reason why I'm quick to warn against Vista is because I work at a CAD/CAM software company. Our software runs on Vista, but we gotta jump through a lot of rings to get it to do so, and even still, we don't suggest it.

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