Halo 2 Vista Jagged edges

[p0lar_bear]

Its more likely that halo 2 was developed and tested on XP, then within the last months of development, ways were implemented to ensure it would run on vista only.

Yes and no; I believe that the core coding was started on XP, yes, as I think that no version ready for testing was out even internally. Then, theoretically, they moved over to Vista, and worked with that to learn how they could learn get the software to work with the OS's overhead (*snicker*), and Windows LIVE libraries and such ().

well if you haven't heard MS is already coming out with a brand new service pack already! that means that vista wasnt even meant to go out on the market until atleast 4-6 months after its release in the end of january.

Guys, XP wasn't supposed to come out for a year after it was made, I mean, that's when SP1 was released for it! Service packs ALWAYS mean that an operating system was rushed and released early! :v

Please. Learn why software updates are before you babble incoherently.

[Con]

What do you mean compete? If there's two versions, then it'll be done at install depending on your DX version and you'll go on to play the game normally.

[et_cg]

i am wondering why they are making 2 versions of GoW for pc and not 1 that supports DX9 and 10. if there is diffrent versions and you cant compete with the other that will blow

The techniques used for textures/shaders are now so much different between DX9 and DX10 that they have to convert their formats differently per each platform. Reason? The sizes/formats are not compatible with one another.

And, since DX10 allows a much nicer output than DX9, and a better quality, you will notice the DX10 version is much worth the money spent on it. At least GoW is not leaving out people with DX9.

[Skyline]

Halo 2 dident leave people out with DX9 because that is what it was made for just ms was being greedy and wanted gamers to goto vista

Halo 3 is DX9 and it looks way better then halo 2.

[Rosco]

I thought the xbox 360 was Direct X 9.5 or something.

[Skyline]

Ya it's said it uses its own modified version of directx 9.

[p0lar_bear]

The XBox uses DirectX 8.
http://www.xbreporter.com/xbox_syste...ifications.php

As far as I know, the 360 doesn't use DirectX at all.
http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/11...0-Dissected/p1 (Read more than just the first page.)

[Veegie]

Xbox 360 uses DirectX 9.1

[p0lar_bear]

Xbox 360 uses DirectX 9.1

Actual DirectX, or just technologies that are synonymous with DX9.1?