vbraun
Raytracing
It has to be said that the real adventure is to get a copy of Vista. Imagine, you take the risk of surrending all your data to Microsoft !!
Any data worth keeping won't be on my Vista partitons.
Microsoft Windows Vista
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Any data worth keeping won't be on my Vista partitons.
Genocidicbunny
Bug squasher
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And doesnt windows vista also give microsoft the right to your hardware too? Or was I just reading something else?
And doesnt windows vista also give microsoft the right to your hardware too? Or was I just reading something else?
The Vista plan calls for hardware vendors to conform in locking you in to MS DRM/"Trusted" computing.
Xanikk999
History junkie
Well then im not upgrading is all i can say! 
Lets boycott windows vista!
Lets boycott windows vista!
MarineCorps
Explosion!
I still find it disturbing that windows looks at what Hardware your running and send that right back to microsoft.
Xanikk999
History junkie
Damn imagine people at microsoft running some switchboard contraption.
At the control center....
Dave: Oh look heres another user who violated the user agreement! Lets lock his computer up since hes running vista!
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
A new personality for Vista-tan. A Data/Hardware Hog .
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Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Yeah, I don't really mind if like, Steam pops up and asks if they can send hardware information back [YES] or [NO]. I don't mind Microsoft knowing either, but I'd prefer to be asked.
One thing I've hated about XP is that occaisonaly windows update's something, then pops up this thing saying "Windows needs to restart in order to finish this update, you have 5 minutes to respond". This has happened while I'm in a GAME. I didn't know it was 30 seconds to restart until I accidently pressed start.
And when you click the later button it only gives you like 5 mins. >_<
Though that hasn't happened on my new comp...
Till
Adventurer
It's been some time since i worked with OpenGL, but when i last did it was a open graphics library with no support for sound, networking, I/O, ... like DirectX has.DirectX and OpenGL are just an API to access the features of graphics cards. OpenGL is everything that DirectX wants to be, except proprietary.
Everything that can be done with DirectX can be done with OpenGL, often with better performance. But MS doesn't 'own' OpenGL, or have any control over its API, or its use, so it is antitheitcal to their concept of MS owning everything on your computer (including your data).
OpenGL's main advantage, from my perspective, is it's portability. DirectX is almost a game engine, but its API in combination with the Windows API is quite a beast to tackle.
OpenGL is an Open Graphics Library, true. That is all it needs to be. But there is also Open AL, an Open Audio Library, and other open libraries to handle the other things. And they can all work together to produce similar results to DirectX.
Do one thing but do it well is a well known Unix programming philosophy. Libraries such as SDL, plib, and clanlib that tie all the well done parts together are what DirectX should be compared to.
Indeed. I've played many excellent games using the SDL libs. 
BirraImperial
Pura Vida!
If there was a Civ 4 for Linux, I would have switched a long time ago.
Genocidicbunny
Bug squasher
Cedega emulator. I think thats what its called. Allows you to play Civ 4 on linux
Civ4 (supposedly) works fine under Cedega.
(I can't verify that, as my video card is too wimpy. But it *did* install properly, and ran as well as it could given my hardware limitations.)
(I can't verify that, as my video card is too wimpy. But it *did* install properly, and ran as well as it could given my hardware limitations.)
I can only report on the ATI 9600 and X800 AGP cards, but Civ4 works fine with the closed source drivers on both AMD64 and X86. When I use the open source r300 drivers though I get glitches with the placement of graphics in boxes...and the "chesire cat" effect. Wish I could say I enjoyed the game itself though, but I prefer Civ3 which still plays well with Cedega 4.3.2.
My ultimate wish though is that FreeCiv starts supporting flics so that all the great Civ3 units created by CivFanitics users can be imported.
deo
Emperor
DAMNT IT! OK I wont upgrade to Vista... you changed my mind and after all... I damaged my ATI graphics card ( an x800 I think, I'm not sure...)
Genocidicbunny
Bug squasher
What did you do to it? Just overheated? or something far worse?
deo
Emperor
No, I don't know, it works but there are a lot of lines and squares, exactly like when you watch TV without an antenna. I was at my friend and that morning it worked but later I brought it home and it wont work anymore. I'm going to take it to an hardware expert or something like that and see if he can do something. Hell, now I have to stick with my Nvidia MX 440 
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EDIT: It's an Radeon 9600.
.EDIT: It's an Radeon 9600.
MarineCorps
Explosion!
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