The PC is at once great and horrid for gaming. The games and the controls are the best by far for many game types (RTS games and FPS games in particular, but also action RPGs and others). The big road blocks are direct X and windows Vista. Using both (especially Direct X 10 in vista) causes rampant memory errors, out of the blue slow down and tons of other problems that really shouldn't exist EVEN on high end machines. Vista is just the nastiest, most bloated mess known to mankind and Direct X doesn't hold a candle to open GL as a gaming platform (you can tell its inferior because given the choice EVERYONE else uses open GL; Nintendo, Sony, Apple, Linux, everyone).
I just hope that we see the end of Direct X with the 3.0 open GL release and eventually see the end of Windows as the dominant OS. I guarantee you that gaming is a MUCH better experience on OSX and Linux (of course dependent on the quality of the port, EA has done some suspect ones, ID ports are awesome). PC gaming will be awesome when Microsoft stops actively trying to ruin it with crap proprietary tech like direct X.
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