If anyones still on XP its time to upgrade from the 18th century:  

  Battlefield 3 leaving DX 9 behind, Frostbite 2 engine good news for PC gamers - Neoseeker News Article

I got Vista so, whatevs

OH SNAP.

By the time it comes out, more than half of the PC owners are going to run Vista or 7. You know what I should do a poll.

If you're gaming seriously on a PC, you're probably running Windows 7 anyway. It's a nice operating system, well worth upgrading to. Tested agrees, if you want full on Whiskey justification.

That sucks. But hey, its just Microsoft's plan to basically continue to destroy the PC video game industry and continue their half-assed attempts at console gaming.

This was going to happen eventually, and frankly, I'm glad it's happening now while we have a really great operating system like Window 7.  When they pulled this stunt for Halo 2, it was like they were blackmailing us to use Vista.

" That sucks. But hey, its just Microsoft's plan to basically continue to destroy the PC video game industry and continue their half-assed attempts at console gaming. "

" That sucks. But hey, its just Microsoft's plan to basically continue to destroy the PC video game industry and continue their half-assed attempts at console gaming. "

Is this really that surprising?

Anyone who doesn't have at least Vista yet, doesn't deserve to whine that they don't get to play a videogame.  An OS is just as essential (or even more so) than having good hardware.

You know what, at some point they need to move forward. This is good. It's not like Windows 7 is worse, I like it better than XP.

I'm kind've surprised they're throwin away DX9 completely, the move to Vista and W7 is not surprising though.

Good. DX9 is incredibly outdated technology; I'm not even sure you can still buy DX9-only cards any more (or at least, there's got to be very little stock left).

Damn, bad news for me.

Well, Windows don't support Windows XP anymore so really the XP thing isn't surprising.  Most cards that'll be out around then will be DX10-only I'm sure, so all in all it's not thaaaat surprising.  You have to move on eventually.

OH no! Does that mean it won't run on my 486 DX2 running Windows Millennium either?! That is BULLSHIT!!!!

Microsoft don't support XP anymore, XP is 10 years old. You don't expect to be able to run a game on 10 year old hardware so you shouldn't expect to run a game on a 10 years old OS.

" I got Vista so, whatevs "

" @Mikemcn said:

" I got Vista so, whatevs "

I offer you my condolences.  "

Yay!  Any PC gamer worth their metal is running a DX10/11 capable OS by now anyway.

" @gike987:  Except the fact they've released 2 OSes since than, and one was a piece of shit when it came out, and the other came out 1 year ago. "

Cool beans.

Old news, but wow, who the fuck wrote that article : "but since consoles only support DX9, the implication is the PC version will be a "true" PC game."  When will people get it through their heads that 1). The consoles don't use DirectX for Windows, 2). The consoles can handle extensions beyond DX9 hardware.  All this (old) news means is they'll be able to really take good use of console hardware and not have to create shorter shaders for the DX9 version.
 
I do think the PC version will have some extra effects though, since DICE did that for BFBC2.  Probably even some token tessellation support this time.

Just upgraded to a GTX 460 1Gb and going up upgrade CPU soon ( currently have c2d E8400), and im running Win7 so I am glad they are doing this so they leave more room for better games to come.

I knew that DICE will make a proper PC version, and then just call BC3 for the consoles Battlefield 3. Everybody wins.

YES! 
 primarily developed for DirectX 11 :D  

It's more surprising to me that this has to be an announcement. I guess I have underestimated the long legs XP has had. To me this is the equivalent to some company in 2004 (the middle of the XP cycle) announcing their new game won't support Windows 95 (its about the same amount of time between vista and XP).

Will it support DX10?

that is the sweetness
hopefully they return to the large scale gameplay with commander and squad leaders

I imagine there's going to be a certain amount of backlash over this. It doesn't affect me personally but maybe it's a little early to start trying to raise the standard OS for PC games to Vista or 7, especially when Vista has the reputation it does.

Well no shit, really?? Games that are coming out years from now will disregard extremely outdated OSs and DX versions? HOLY SHIT, EVERYONE HURRY AND START BITCHING AND MOANING!!!!!

" That sucks. But hey, its just Microsoft's plan to basically continue to destroy the PC video game industry and continue their half-assed attempts at console gaming. "

Good news, move technology forward and stop going backwards or sideways getting nowhere in graphics. Now they are supporting the game like how it was meant to be, a pc game. Well I guess I need to get a windows 7 then, i'll get a DX11 gpu maybe this month.

" Microsoft don't support XP anymore, XP is 10 years old. You don't expect to be able to run a game on 10 year old hardware so you shouldn't expect to run a game on a 10 years old OS. "

Good excuse to upgrade I suppose

Like as has been previously said, anybody who is going to buy this game has already switched over to Vista and W7 and to DirectX10-11, so I don't see how this is going to hurt anybody.

Running vista and DX11. Vista is the most stable OS ive run so far. 
 
XP was total crap imho

''Let me upgrade ya''

Breaking news, PS3 games don't work on a PS2.

I have Windows 7 and a GTS 250 GPU, I assume if I wanted to I could play BF3. So I'm not too bothered about them giving XP the cold shoulder, arguably that OS is old by today's standards and we need to utilise the current software available.

Good for them I suppose.

" @Emilio said:

" That sucks. But hey, its just Microsoft's plan to basically continue to destroy the PC video game industry and continue their half-assed attempts at console gaming. "

What are you talking about? Windows 7 (and Vista on high end computers) are great operating systems. "

Considering the graphical requirements of Bad Company 2, this is not surprising.

Not really a surprise, it was bound to happen.  And 7 is a great windows release, they learned their lesson from vista.