Actually I don't know of any at the moment. I'm not a gamer. i upgraded because DXdiag said I needed to re-install directx, I figured I might as well get the latest version. I just thought it unkind of Microsoft to write off machines running Win95 and I bet if Microsoft releases any games or sims, they will require DX8.1.
On 6 Dec 01, at 7:35, Ian Aditya Agus wrote: > What game specify exactly DX 8.1 as a requirement ? > Why bother to upgrade ? > I use DX 7 and still haven't found a game that can't > be played on my Win95/AMD-700 box. > > ~ian > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SURVPC] Surv OS > > > I ran across another silly thing from Microsoft. I decided to > update DirectX and found that the latest version 8.1 won't work > with Win95. Microsoft says that machines shipped with Win95 > are too slow to work with games that require v8.1 so they > require Win98 or better to use it. I guess Microsoft never heard > of upgrading hardware! This Win95 box with a 1GHz Athlon > and 512MB DDR ram should have the horse power to run > most games released in the next year provided they don't > require directX 8.1. Just another MS deal to force an OS > upgrade. > > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. > Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. > More info can be found at; > http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
