[project1dev] Re: Operating System Poll

  • From: eric drewes <figarus@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:43:14 -0400

XP here also

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Good point...
>
> well i just found out that vista isnt required for shader model 3, but that
> you have to have a vid card that supports sm3.
>
> hrms...
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Joshua Myers <joshjkm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Supporting XP is a must IMO.
>> In theory tons and tons of computers out there are still running XP. I
>> don't think we are a good subsample of the population of the eventual
>> target.
>> I don't know of any current publishers that would exclude XP because of
>> the lost sales and angry people that would rise from the darkness...
>>
>> just my two cents tho.
>>
>> OSX here :P
>>
>>  On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey does everyone have vista or is anyone still running XP?
>>>
>>> If we had to, do you guys think it would be a big deal to require vista
>>> to play our game (assuming everyone has it in the first place!)
>>>
>>> Just wondering because you need vista for directx version 10, and you
>>> need dx10 to be able to use shader model 3 which makes some things easier
>>> than using shader model 2.
>>>
>>> But, of course that makes it require vista :P
>>>
>>> So what you guys usin? (:
>>>
>>
>>
>

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