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If Ashes will be available only in DirectX 12 will you...
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Will you switch to Spydows 10 to play it?
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In all seriousness, I agree with @Ariatras , especially considering how you framed the poll options. Just have to wait and see what Intrepid decides to do for Ashes.
DX12 would be nice, but I'd also prefer DX9 mode for people with lower range PCs or to be used in large scale fights for better performance.
Steam focused research (also recent) has shown that 50% of gamers that use steam use Windows 10.
As you see, an enormous chunk of gamers still don't use Windows 10 (will not get into reasons now, just looking at statistics), and as you are guessing, the second most used OS is Windows 7 by users that so far refused to switch to Windows 10.
Windows 10 being a free switch, didn't put a cash barrier on switching, so it's obvious all those users didn't switch simply because they didn't want Windows 10 (for one reason or another).
Making Ashes available only in DirectX 12 (playable only under Windows 10) would reduce potential player base by significant amount (this is a simple fact, not a speculation). This is why I'm very interested what Intrepid plans are with this.
I've never encountered a problem with it. It depends a lot on ur PC. If your computer is a potato, it's better to stay Win 7. If you use a high end gaming PC Windows 10 is the best option, imo.
The main problem has always been the lack of control, with important privacy options unavailable to the average user without going into advanced mode system tweaking and registry editing. The standard options presented to you in the settings and during the installation are just the tip of the iceberg.
Another problem is that many updates simply override some of the options you selected and set them back to default - usually without your knowledge. Or add additional ones that you're not always aware of.
This rogue behaviour (in the RPG sense, sneaky, hiding from you and doing stuff behind your back), combined with a significantly lower degree of control over your system compared to previous ones are the main problem and the main reason many people will continue to distrust MS.
And finally, your statement about MS not needing any government pressure to start looking into Win10 privacy settings is false. Perhaps the US government let things slide, but in several other countries MS has been facing formal investigations for months now (in some cases more than a year) by privacy watchdogs and this has had a clear effect. The feedback from the community in this case is wildly overstated, as users are not MS customers, they (their data) are MS' product. But it's always a nice PR when mandatory changes can be presented as "see, we listen to you, guys!".
But back to the topic: since AoC is based on the Unreal engine, Vulcan support will be in by default. Unless Intrepid have a specific reason to focus on DX12 only, the engine will support all kinds of APIs that are part of the Unreal package. I don't think we should worry too much about this...
OpenGL (and glide) have always been better then DirectX. The only reason DirectX prospered is because of pressure from biggest companies to push their own.
People will remember how Voodoo was bought out just to stop it's climb to the top. Sadly politics and financial interests have roots everywhere, even in gaming industry...
The only thing you need to know about what OS you'll be using to play Ashes at launch is will it be Linux, or Windows 10? Windows 8 is a bad joke, and Windows 7 is going to be hitting end of life. Say what you will about 10, but you *do not* want to be running an OS at end of life. Bad things happen.
Windows 7 end of life - January 14, 2020
People still run Windows XP and if they care of it, they have no problems whatsoever.
The only problem with windows 7 is no support for DX12.
This game, from what I've seen so far, seems to check a lot of the boxes of what I've been wanting in a new MMO experience. While I don't expect it to come to Linux, I do have hope given the attitude of the devs. They've already said they're coding to be as cross-platform as possible and keeping Windows specific code modularized, and they're open to other platforms at some point.
That said, I'll be trying to use Wine first, and failing that, will set up a VM with GPU passthrough.