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If this game requires 8, there will be hell to pay.

So I am going to assume, no.

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I agree that that is such a stupid idiotic pathetic garbage hateful retarded scumbag evil satanic nazi like term ever created. At least top 5.

 

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Oh, gawd, I hadn't even contemplated this!

 

Mind you, if it has a Linux version, that's just another good reason to make that move.

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Windows 7 and 8 are the safest bet, although I wouldn't be surprised if it ran just as well on Vista and perhaps XP.

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For games if it runs on 7 you can almost always(I can't actually think of an exception) get it to run on Vista, and it will probably run on XP. You may have to to some rerouting of files with hard links in the latter but it can generally be done. 2000 and ME you start to get really finicky and it's pretty certain to not run on '98.

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No. Windows xp of course! ;)

Oh the punishment.

But do I need xp 64 to level up?  I"ve only got 32 at the moment :(

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If game uses DX9 and is 32 bit, then Windows XP or newer

If game uses DX10 then Windows Vista or newer

if game uses DX11 then Windows 7 or newer

if game uses DX12 then Windows 8.1 Update or newer

But probably game will not have official support for Windows XP even if it works in it as Microsoft will stop all support for it before PoE is released. I think it is high probability that Obsidian will not use DX9 in PoE as newer versions of DX are much better in most things that they want to do in PoE, so my bet would be at least Vista or newer Windows.

 

Game will as work (Mac) OS X, but you probably need at least Snow Leopard (10.6)

And it will at least work also in Steam OS and other up-to-date Debian Linux based distros.

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http://unity3d.com/unity/system-requirements

 

System requirements for Unity-developed Content

 
Windows XP or later; Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

 

Dunno how accurate those are.

 

 

as newer versions of DX are much better in most things that they want to do in PoE

And that would be...?

IIRC, DX9 is more flexible and gives you more control of CPU utilization and overhead (of course, if you know how to do that), unlike DX10/11, that's why DX12 is supposed to fix that.

And DX9 is still capable nowadays: http://www.abload.de/img/2011-05-19_000232n85.jpg

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http://unity3d.com/unity/system-requirements

 

System requirements for Unity-developed Content

 
Windows XP or later; Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

 

Dunno how accurate those are.

 

 

as newer versions of DX are much better in most things that they want to do in PoE

And that would be...?

IIRC, DX9 is more flexible and gives you more control of CPU utilization and overhead (of course, if you know how to do that), unlike DX10/11, that's why DX12 is supposed to fix that.

And DX9 is still capable nowadays: http://www.abload.de/img/2011-05-19_000232n85.jpg

 

DX9 - 11 all have same problems with CPU utilization and overhead, although there has been some optimizations in DX11. But main problem is that DX till can only use one CPU core. And for developer DX10+ versions offer much more flexibility than DX9, but DX9 was only version that works in Xbox 360 and PS3 supports about same features, which is why games that are ported or made for consoles need to take consideration that it needs to work and look good with DX9 renderer. 

 

DX10 and 11 offer better 3D tricks for 2D planes, and as all backgrounds in PoE are 2D planes, and DX10 and 11 offer better dynamic light effects and control for those effects.

 

And it should be remembered that when we speak that DX10+ is better in something that don't mean that DX9 can't necessary do it or that you can't make game look as good with DX9, but that developers need to spend less time to get same level effects, which mean that they can use that saved time to do other content in the game.

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