Play Games: Put more playtime in your family time
Playing the games you love with Windows Vista is easier, more exciting, and more fun than ever before. You can choose from a wide selection of games and enjoy amazingly realistic three-dimensional graphics graphics in a safer gaming environment for the whole family. Windows Vista includes several new features that can enhance your gaming experience.
Eye-popping graphics in Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
With Windows Vista, you can get the most exciting visual experience you've ever seen on a Windows-based PC. Windows Vista exclusively introduces DirectX 10. With a DirectX 10 graphics card and the technology built into the operating system, Windows Vista can run the latest, most graphically advanced games. New games that take advantage of DirectX 10 will simply blow you away.
See unprecedented realism and detail with DirectX 10. Supreme Commander image captured on NVIDIA GPU, provided by THQ Inc.
And if your favorite action games carry the Games for Windows brand and support gamepads, you may be able to play them by plugging an Xbox 360 Controller for Windows into your PC.
Experience a more lifelike game with DirectX 10. Company of Heroes image captured on NVIDIA GPU, provided by THQ Inc.
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