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Reply to Why Vista? Why 64 Bit? The Answers Are in the Questions! in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Windows Vista ships with DirectX 10 and is the only version of Windows which it is offered for, and it has a large number of changes: DirectInput will be deprecated in favor of XInput, from the Xbox team. Likewise, DirectSound will also be deprecated in favor of XACT. DirectX 10 has also dropped support for hardware accelerated audio, opting instead to render sound in software on the CPU. DirectPlay is deprecated in favor of Xbox Live whereas DirectShow will be deprecated in favor of Media Found

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Reply to Why Vista? Why 64 Bit? The Answers Are in the Questions! in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Iv'e been running x64 since early 2006.Firstly XP Pro x64,and now Vista Ultimate x64.In the early days,yes it was a pain,very nearly went back to XP 32,now glad i stuck with it.I remember sending countless emails to hardware and software manufacturers asking,no begging,for x64 support,to no avail.Even developed drivers for my TV card myself.So it was with much doubt and fear that i pressed the "Install Now"button on my Vista x64 Beta 1 DVD, allowing it to upgrade from a perfect Win XP Pro x64 in

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