wolf359 opened this issue on Feb 05, 2003 ยท 45 posts
EsnRedshirt posted Wed, 05 February 2003 at 10:51 AM
Sadly (for those who haven't upgraded), Win95 is a dead OS. Microsoft pretty much pulls this sort of thing every time they release a new system. Win98 is next on the hit list, and is pretty much on the way out as well- you'll have trouble finding official "signed" drivers for many graphics cards under Win98- because Microsoft refuses to certify them anymore. I even have trouble transferring data easily from Win95 to WinXP machines; instead of a serial port connection, I've got to manually copy things over on disk. Actually, considering DAZ will be using hardware accelleration, it's no suprise that Win95 will not be supported. Microsoft's DirectX is pretty much the only way developers code for PC hardware anymore, and Win95 doesn't support all the latest DirectX versions- which have features that DAZ will need to ensure their renders are fast and high quality. Anyway, PC users who are still running Win95 should really consider an upgrade to WinXP, and maybe a system upgrade as well. WinXP, with all the patches, is much more stable and superior to Win95 (and I should know- I've been using all the Microsoft OS's since MS-DOS), and, as you can see, most new programs will soon require WinXP to work... at least until the next version of Windows is released...