Microsoft says no DirectX 11.1 for 7 users

lehnerus2000 said:

Markmental said:

i was using linux for the past two years (explains my inactivity on this forum) and I would keep it if it wasnt for my games,a lot of my apps and visual c++ if WINE runs close to every windows program perfectly im switching back. but i doubt that will happen soon. i will probably have to buy windows 8 this christmas

Lady Fitzgerald said:

I never meant driving them to Win 8. All that keeps me from Linux now is it is difficult to impossible to run some of my software and hardware on it.

Have you tried a using a Windows VM?

I run all of my old XP games (and earlier) in an XP VM using VMware Workstation (on W7 and Ubuntu 10).
Only one of my games won't install in the VM (it insists on a real XP install ).

Layback Bear said:

Microsoft will use every dirty trick in the book to try to get people off of Windows 7 and on to Windows 8. This is just the beginning. A few bad Windows 7 Updates and a story that Windows 8 doesn't have this kind of problem is in the future.

Just like Gadgets vs Live Tiles.

Layback Bear said:

Microsoft has 90% plus of the market. I don't think it's worrying about Linux or the like. Windows 8 is competing against Windows 7 for market share. I know it does sound strange.

Don't forget that XP is still bigger than all other operating systems combined (excluding W7).

NONE of my games work in a vmware or virtualbox virtualization they either lag so much or refuse to play maybe because they are all directx 7-9 games

No game manufacturer is going to drop support for 7 and earlier for the 13 people that have Windows 8 and like it. The same thing happened with DX10 and Vista. I wonder about Steam and their Linux project. It is certainly going to be a very interesting next few years. I am not budging from 7. I have it set up the way I like it. I have tried all the versions of 8 including the 90 day Enterprise trial and I think it is crippleware. My wife is still on XP Pro and sees no need to move to the 7 I have installed for her on a separate hard drive. The only time that gets use is when I update it every once in a while. They tried to kill XP with DX 10 but DX9 games were around for years. DX 10 and DX 11 really only took off when 7 became popular. By the time M$ had sorted Vista out (SP2) it had such a bad rap we stuck with XP. We tried 7 and we like it and that is it. M$ may have a 3 year product cycle but in the real world of car loans, mortgages, household stuff members of the public do not. As for businesses we all know that one.
You can read the post on here of posters who have tried 8 and can't wait to get it off their drives and reinstall 7.

Markmental said:

NONE of my games work in a vmware or virtualbox virtualization they either lag so much or refuse to play maybe because they are all directx 7-9 games

I guess that's possible (I know squat about Directx, other than games use it).

I notice that you only have 4 GB of RAM (like me).
My VMs struggle sometimes (lots of disc accessing).

Maybe more RAM might help.

RoasterMen said:

Anyways for me, Windows 8 is just priceless.

Like you would not pay a penny for it ??