Anyone used this with vray? Getting a new computer and they recommended this OS.
‘they’ are lairs
vista is bad for anyone into 3d or gaming.
And music.
…Who is it good for? (excluding gates and his bank balance)
I just wonder if some workstation is marked as Vista ready. I think it will not happen until nVidia and others make good or any drivers.
Today’s situation with Vista is very sad. Even when there are no certified drivers for large amount of hi-end components and whole OS is only expensive piece of crap, most manufacturers will push it with new hardware.
I want to start a flame here, because I want to know what do you guys think about Vista.
I don’t want to move under Vista. Not tomorrow, not ever.
I dont either 
Anyway i am just curious what happens if Autodesk decides to release new MAX with DirectX 10 support :shock:
Neovisual: Vista je naprosto besna
I wonder if they will continue to make XP 64 available or if we be forced to switch eventually or will this be a windows ME kind of thing.
Considering 3DSMax still works great on Windows 2000… I really don’t expect them to force people into Vista for quite some time.
Honestly, if you can, use Win2k for Max… it has the lowest overhead which means the fastest rendering time.
How much memory can you allocate under win2k ? I have to switch to win64 when needed more that 3GB of RAM.
Win2K has the 2GB limit… you can do more on XP with the /3G switch (don’t need to go to XP64 for that)
It all comes down to what OS has the features you need… but go with the oldest/cleanest OS that you can. Feature bloat kills 3D work.
i’ve been using x64 xp for about a year now, I think its pretty good - very rare something does not work…
in fact i found some vista x64 drivers for something obscure that i couldnt get working and they work!
I have no qualms with XP64 (except for lack of drivers) and have been using it for about a year as well… both our 3D workstations are running XP64 now, which means we can start deploying Max9 64bit.
All of our renderfarm though is on Win2K SP4… has all the drivers, 64bit isn’t an issue as they’re 32bit machines, and with the amount of real memory they have, the 2GB limit is a non issue. Untill we buy 64bit machines for the farm, I’m anticipating it to remain all Win2k.
We aren’t planning on purchasing a single copy of Vista until forced to.
dou you guys think that MS will ever release DX10 to XP platforms at all?
I think they have said it will be available for Vista only.
Best regards,
Vlado
Yes, what i read is that MS is saying DX10 cannot be ported to any other OS because of drivers limitations in dealing with hardware components.
Autodesk said they won’t support it right away because videocard makers aren’t yet fully developed with their drivers (particularly the “pro” lines).
John Carmack dubbed the move from MS as plain forcible, a way to sell us all more of the same.
I ran Vista in VMWare when it was beta, and stripping down all the bells and whistles, just turned the beast into a meeky nt4 sp3. look, feel and speed, as far as i was concerned.
It all sat within 120 megs of Ram, and ran at near-full speed within the virtual machine.
Reading the specs now make me cringe.
Lele