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    Windows Vista & DirectX10?

    I was wondering, as we know Microsofts Windows Vista comes out later this year with DirectX10 - this means we all need to get a totally new rig to play the new games?

    Quoted from Gamespot.com
    "The problem is that DirectX 10 video cards don't exist yet. Nvidia has the G80 in the works and ATI is polishing up the R600, a GPU based on the Xbox 360 "Xenos" core, but cards won't appear until the second half of this year.
    Aside from a handful of Windows Vista DX10 launch games, most PC games shipping in the next year will be DirectX 9 titles. Since the number of Windows XP DX9 video card system owners will dwarf the Windows Vista DX10 video card installation base for quite some time, we'd have to guess that the DX10 game developers will create DX9-compatible fallback versions of their games to make them playable on current hardware."

    But according to this there are a few years left for DirectX9! I just wondered what everyone else thought or knew about this!

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    tis gonna take ages for everyone to move over to dx10 cards. sure a lot of people will get them as soon as but theres prob gonna be a hell of a lot more that wont want to or just simply cant afford to for a few years...

    what was the changeover from dx8-dx9 cards like? i cant remember

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    There is no problem, DX10 will still work with DX9 cards. DX10 features will only work on a DX10 card, it doesn't mean DX10 games wont have compaitibility with older DX9 cards.

    The DX8->DX9 changeover was very smooth, virtually unnoticable.
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    also it whould be not a good move for Microsoft to do it like that as muffy says hard to notice

    and i had a dx card that was dx card that was 8.1 and could play fear at top gfx (without 3 )


    it whould be not a sound move to discard people and all with high powered systems .. also the physics graphics problems are first .. to worry about

    but sorted by nviida.. ati trailing
    Last edited by MON; 06-04-2006 at 08:45 PM.

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    How are ATI trailing?

    What features will dx10 give, i dont really get what it does lmao.
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    nvening hop over to http://connect.microsoft.com, and apply for the "DirectX SDK Beta Program", iirc its an open beta.
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