Sybarite Paladin AxL

I played Halo 3's singleplayer with a friend on legendary difficulty. I thought it was quite fun. The story might not have been the most original ever, but it was captivating nonetheless. Multiplayer however was rather bland. Overall, I'd only play it to see how the story progresses.

See the part I bold in your post? That's why it can't be on XP. The kernel is too different, that's the reason. It would have to be redesigned to be compatible with older operating systems (XP, Win2k) to work. While it is a gimmick to get users to upgrade, it still holds a valid argument on why and how it couldn't be done on previous systems. Many of DX10's techniques are only capable with a complete rewrite of the rendering engine, something the previous DX models all share is a single core that has been improved over the years while DX10 is nearly all new technologies. Well true, but they could've designed a version for XP by now. Fact of the matter is, the main and most important reason they're not doing so is because of the gimmick.

DirectX10 is simply not portable to XP because of how they designed it to run only on Vista. It was built around Vista's kernel, which is quite different from XP's. The only reason they don't want to design another DirectX10 for older operating systems is because they're using it as a gimmick to try and force gamers to upgrade. Excerpt from wikipedia: Windows Vista includes a new version of Direct3D, called Direct3D 10. It adds scheduling and memory virtualization capabilities to the graphics subsystem and foregoes the current DirectX practice of using "capability bits" to indicate which features are active on the current hardware. Instead, Direct3D 10 defines a minimum standard of hardware capabilities which must be supported for a display system to be "Direct3D 10 compatible". Microsoft's goal is to create an environment for developers and designers where they can be assured that the input they provide will be rendered in exactly the same fashion on all supported graphics cards. This has been a recurring problem with the DirectX 9 model, where different video cards have produced different results, thus requiring fixes keyed to specific cards to be produced by developers. According to Microsoft, Direct3D 10 will be able to display some graphics up to 8 times faster than DirectX 9.0c because of the new improved Windows Display Driver Model. In addition, Direct3D 10 incorporates Microsoft's High Level Shader Language 4.0. However, Direct3D 10 is not backward compatible like prior versions of DirectX. The same game will not be compatible with both Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 9 or below. Games would need to be developed for both APIs, one version for Direct3D 9 and below if targeting Windows versions prior to Windows Vista and another version using Direct3D 10 if targeting only Windows Vista. Windows Vista does, however, contain a backward compatible Direct3D 9 implementation. The Direct3D 10 API introduces unified vertex and pixel shaders. In addition, it also supports Geometry Shaders, which operate on entire geometric primitives (points, lines, and triangles), and can allow calculations based on adjacent primitives as well. The output of the geometry shader can be passed directly onwards to the rasterizer for interpolation and pixel shading, or written to a vertex buffer (known as 'stream out') to be fed back into the beginning of the pipeline. D3D10 functionality requires WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) and new graphics hardware. The graphics hardware will be pre-emptively multithreaded, to allow multiple threads to use the GPU in turns. It will also provide paging of the graphics memory. The version of Direct3D 9 available in Windows Vista is called Direct3D 9Ex. This modified API also uses the WDDM and allows Direct3D 9 applications to access some of the features available in Windows Vista such as cross-process shared surfaces, managed graphics memory, prioritization of resources, text anti-aliasing, advanced gamma functions, and device removal management.

God, now I need to get a Wii... I hate companies who multiplatform like this, it's so annoying. At this rate, this will be the only Castlevania I can't play yet... And doesn't everyone just hate mobile game titles? Especially ones that are canon?! Well here's for the inclusion of the following: Nathan Graves, Hugh Baldwin, Eric Lecarde, Maxim Kischine, Juste Belmont, Leon Belmont. Everyone else, I'm not that interested in. I mean, c'mon, they've already whored Simon, Alucard and Maria enough. Time for the lesser known heroes to shine!

Least they got Shadowrun and Halo 2 working.

That was unnecessary.

Then please explain the above screen.

Where is your source sir? http://exophase.com/ds/chrono-trigger-ds-c...7.htm#more-6167 Thank you, here is your gift. http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/8602/1321...ggerorignp0.png Thank you kind sir, that did make me happy. I'll hopefully pick this up soon and play it on my PS2. Question, is there both a PSX and a PS2 port?

Well you never know, there's bound to be some random fanboy about.

Where is your source sir? http://exophase.com/ds/chrono-trigger-ds-c...7.htm#more-6167 Take note, chibi-style gfx is just an assumption. I hope not tho, based on the fact that they say it's going to be a port, this will most likely not happen. Nowhere could I find the words "enhanced 3D remake" yet. So let's cross our fingers.

The game is a port of the 1995 SNES original, enhanced to take advantage of the DS touch screen functionality and dual-screen setup. Square Enix is promising additional content and features, such as an extra dungeon and wireless play mode. On the other hand tho, it's on the DS which means chibi-style models with 5 polygons each. Ergo, DIE IN A FIRE! God I wish they used the PSP... I could care less about the goddamn touch screen at this point. Although I do like how I draw lines in Castlevania Portrait of Ruin to kill monsters.

I just found out and I am saddened. As a person who has no intention of ever upgrading to Vista, this was a very dear project to me. Being able to play all the new games under DirectX10 while using XP would have been grand. http://fallingleafsystems.com/ As it stands, no one has picked up the project again from what I've gathered. Although the silver lining is they've released all their source code so there's still hope. In the meantime, anyone found any alternatives? Note: this is not a debate thread. I don't want any random retard telling me to use Vista. This thread has been made to discuss DirectX10 with Windows XP, so if you want to rant on about how much Vista does this and that, find some other thread to do it.

Oh god, the game still sucks though. Shut up; Boobs!

Brilliante! Now to be perfectly honest, I have loads of girl friends that are just friends. For now anyway. For some reason everyone wants to be with you when you already have a girl. :>

Slow guys, real slow. http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/

Funnier fact, most people don't give a rat's ass about the grand scheme of things. And I couldn't care less how Mr. Scheme thinks of my friends and loved ones. They're still way more important to me than the grand scheme of things will ever be.

Awww, someone needs a hug. And while we're at it

That pretty much sums it up for me. It seems to be largely an adolescent male phenomenon ie. teenage boys who get turned on by a stiff breeze or a sniff of their mom's panties. Just the very fact that it is sexual in nature is more than enough to arouse these.. Hooray for judgmental closed-minded people.

Anime may have more graphic subject matter but it is still for kids and teens. If you think trivialised philosophy, contrived storytelling, excessive violence or sexual depravity passes for mature literature you're wrong. An R18 rating simply denotes some content is not appropriate for children- it does not mean you need any comprehension greater than a child's to enjoy it. Not to say you can't enjoy anime at any age, but if you go off naming some pseudo-intellectual examples trying to pass it off as anything but frothy almost-melodramatic serial drama you're only fooling yourself. Why are we only fooling ourselves? Just because it's drawn? If so, that's really hypocritical considering your previous argument. You've obviously never truly "felt" Cowboy Bebop. Interesting how you left out gays and lesbians.

Well, I wouldn't mind doing a cosplay chick, especially the one Ryuken posted. That is some freakin awesome cosplay. But no, I was referring to having sex with a *real* cartoon girl, like in that movie where real people and cartoons co-existed, and the hot blond cartoon chick wanted have sex with the main actor.

I, of course believe in love. It's a wonderful thing, be it a deep, passionate feeling or just a simple bond between two people that goes beyond the typical need for companionship. I love my family. My mother, father, brother and sister. I would do anything for them, same for the cats I've help raise. I love them as well. Love isn't as rare as people like to think. Most weak minded, cynical people tend to become scrooges in their advanced years and like to shrug off love like it was something that never affected them. Love inspires us and love brought us into this world. No matter what, our human capacity to care so deeply about someone or something will always be what makes us such a unique species on this planet. Love gives us the strength to continue to become better individuals. Agreed. Co-Signed. Ditto. Couldn't have said it better myself. I applaud you for such a wondrous opinion. You sir, are a great man. Love is indeed real. And it is great. Ever-so great. I urge each and everyone of you to get off your asses, seek, find, and share love as much as possible. Ah, and GC, just because people use social networking sites and look at porn doesn't mean they're single. I'm not, and I still do. And even tho I'm not much of an astrology-nut, I've found I can relate to the descriptions they give about my star sign on the internet to very high degree. Go Scorpios!

I enjoy both real and hentai. Sometimes I'd rather watch regular stuff, sometimes I prefer hentai. Real or not counts for jack sh!t if you get a hard on. It's all the same with regular crap anyway, you're still watching it on a screen, hence not actually participating. Too bad you can't fvck both tho. A walking, talking hentai chick you could fvck, that'd be fun. Or turn my girl into one and back whenever I please. Yay, choices. I think L.S.D. is right, primarily because hentai manga and anime are primarily targeted at men. And have any of you ever been attracted to those love/sex books? I find them annoying and lulzworthy.

Has been already decoded. The Nintendo fix only affected the Zelda game, which is retarded, considering, the hack would work with other games as well. Don't update just yet, no counter-fix is out at this time.

Well, maybe it was all that moisture from the fact that she's freakin 52 and wearing a thong, which means all the sagging fat would have broken off the metallic piece and lobbed it straight into her stupid.

I know envy your guts. Pray that I don't find you. I'd go about efficiently 'disposing' of every mob leader in my country. I'd also engineer a plague to specifically target gypsies and render them incapable of reproduction, genocide takes too long, and that saves me from becoming a mass murderer. GET RID OF THE PROBLEM BEFORE IT ARISES! Oh, and I'd probably find a way to start a world war. A war of assassins, that targets evil/retarded politicians. Also, I'd visit you guys and give you cake!