A new directX runtime can't we stick with 10.1 and fix its huge resource issue before rolling the next one out please.

i find OpenGL superior to DirecX Anyway

The interesting thing this time around, is that if you dig up a few of the more technical articles, as well as articles referring to the early showings, it appears that this one actually *IS* going to have some improvement. Coupled with Win7's multi-threaded optimization (Early tests reveal that it should indeed be better optimized for multi core than Vista), this could be a great step.

I guess one other thing that I'd kind of like to see as a focus, thought it won't happen, is the ability not just to shift things ONTO the GPU, but also off. Whether you've got a card that doesn't have a lot of stream processors, or if your card eventually becomes less capable of handling harder tasks in the future, it would be nice for the system to be able (so long as your cpu and ram were ample) to better take some of the GPU's workload and speed things up a bit. With so many games already being SO VERY GPU intensive... I'm concerned that trying to add too many tasks onto it might create a negative result. I'm all for multi-threading management, but I really hope M$\NVidia\Ati are considering the ability to make that go both ways, not just ONTO the GPU.