We can all pretty much agree that Microsoft (MS) has a sort of A.D.D. when it comes to PC gaming. A great idea or product will come to launch, only to be left out in the cold and dead shortly thereafter. Good thing seems to be that MS understands this and has since taken a firm stand that gaming will “be a key component for the whole OS”.
Windows 7 official support ended recently and inXile Entertainment are now pushing Bard's Tale IV players to install Windows 10 apparently. Considering it was originally playable in Windows 7, players are not liking the minimum system requirements change.
Building on the success of porting WoW's DX12 version to Windows 7, Microsoft has published help for other DX12 devs, which includes a runtime that supports all the features of Windows 10 October Update... including DirectX Raytracing.
That's right, DirectX 12 has come to Windows 7
Seems strange to port it to Windows 7 at the same time they started to notify customers it has reached its end of life lol
Woah, that's great actually! I can finally throw my Win 10 in the trash and go back to an OS that doesn't f*** up my games performance at each update.
gears of war 3 on pc is my prediction because that would be sweet to play online on dedicated servers with no lag.
Sweet!
As much as I want the xbox franchises to come to PC, i rather have Valve run PC gaming. Steam is proven to overall better than GFWL. Still, options are welcome.
Don't think the consumer base is comfortable with another iteration of windows. We already dealt with so much advertising from windows 7, can't take another round of it :-(
Microsoft is noting but a minnow in the PC gaming world these days. I would go as far to say that Microsoft is considered a dirty word in PC gaming.
I can't see anything they could possibly do in Win8 that would improve their reputation or standing in the PC gaming world. Hell a lot of PC gamers keep dreaming for the day when Valve goes "we are making an operating system for the PC gamer". I know I would ditch Windows in a second if there was an alternative for PC gamers.