Stardock CEO: Game developers should switch to Windows 7

Posted Jun 17th 2009 5:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Hardware

Windows Vista was pretty much of a train wreck of an OS when it was released 2 1/2 years ago. There were tons of performance problems and driver support was poor. However it looks like Microsoft's next OS release Windows 7 will be a much better product (it's due out on October 22) and Stardock CEO Brad Wardell feels game developers need to get on the Windows 7 bandwagon now.

Chatting with Gamasutra, Wardell feels that one of the big features of Windows 7 is Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) which will allow a PC's CPU to handle some DirectX graphical features even if the PC has a poor gaphics card or no dedicated graphics card installed. Wardell feels that feature will allow lots of games to be played on low end machines: "We want the game to look incredible on high-end systems, but I want people to be able to play this on their three-year-old laptop on the airplane."

Tags: microsoft, stardock, windows-7, windows-vista

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Brian Wardell wants to be Gabe Newell.

FACT: 94% of Brian Wardell's dreams are about Gabe Newell.Posted at 5:47PM on Jun 17th 2009 by Smurfy

Also he's a dick.Posted at 5:47PM on Jun 17th 2009 by Smurfy

It's Brad Wardell genius, not Brian. Which leads me to question why you would make the above statement if your not even aware of what his name is. As far as being a dick, on occasion I have posted my opinion in Stardock's forums and actually received a well thought out response from him. How many CEO's do that?

With all the companies that seem to ignore the input from their fans, I'm really not down with making childish unsupported statements regarding the few that do.

Grow up a littlePosted at 6:06PM on Jun 17th 2009 by Solice

Besides, he doesn't eat NEARLY enough hamburgers to even be thinking of becoming Newell.Posted at 12:22AM on Jun 18th 2009 by Ghede