If you have or are intending to get a Direct X 10 Graphics card then READ THIS!

[thatbloke]

Microsoft have apparently announced that with the incoming upgrade of DirectX 10 to version 10.1 the DirectX 10 graphics cards will become obsolete. Why?

Although DX10 will not bring much to the fore in terms of new features, Mickeysoft are changing the way it implements its standards, requiring a higher minimum level of support from the developers.

Link to article here.

This is going to piss ALOT of people off...

 

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

But these gamers shouldn't fret too much - 10.1 adds virtually nothing that they will care about and, more to the point, adds almost nothing that developers are likely to care about. The spec revision basically makes a number of things that are optional in DX10 compulsory under the new standard - such as 32-bit floating point filtering, as opposed to the 16-bit current. 4xAA is a compulsory standard to support in 10.1, whereas graphics vendors can pick and choose their anti-aliasing support currently.

Forced 4xAA that sucks!

I like turning it off for high fps

 

[Dragon]

4x AA?!? Have they gone completely nuts?!?

I think I will have to get myself a new computer as soon as DX10 will be necessary for any game ... shit *pissed*

 

[waterproofbob]

pah i don't care, I'm not using Vista and as they have said due to this, hardly any programmers will do DX10 stuff. Also if you have a 8800 then 4xAA is nothing anyway.

 

[HotStuff]

This comes as no surprise at all. DX10 was having teething troubles almost immediately from the moment it was concieved.

As I have said on previous threads any gamer upgrading to vista at the moment is not a prudent step - most PC games magazines will support this.

I have an 8800 but I bought for the speed of the GPU, not the fact that it could support DX10 under vista.

My intentions (as with XP some 5 years ago when it was first launched) is to wait about 2 years from when the new OS Vista was realsed to upgrade. By that time, surround sound issues, compatibility and yes even DX10 or DX10.1 or whatever should have reached some sort of stability.

Am I bothered that my shiny new £235 8800 will not support DX10.1 in 18 months time when I might upgrade to vista? No, will simply sell the 8800 on ebay and buy a new one.

You have to be sensible about upgrading, and the key to it is never to be too keen to buy new technology, whether that be software or hardware. Give it a chance to sort itself out.

Got £240 for my old computer kit on ebay today!

 

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

I got my 7800 gt 17months ago, its still going strong

 

[waterproofbob]

i got my new 8800 purely for the card as hotstuff says, I couldn't give a rats ass about vista or dx10, my card is the shizm am does everything i want it to.

 

[VibroAxe]

when did bob buy an 8800?

 

[waterproofbob]

when did bob buy an 8800?

when my 7900 died at the end of term, remember, bob was really bummed out that he couldn't play games after exams went to shop and bought one

 

[VibroAxe]

oh, didn't realise that was an 8800

ALSO

i made the mac run at 24degC after 6 hours game play!!

/me loves 120mm fans

 

[DeZmond]

when my 7900 died at the end of term, remember, bob was really bummed out that he couldn't play games after exams went to shop and bought one

I am worried by your capacity to talk at length about yourself in third-person mode.

(I think that normally means you've been playing too many RPGs/MMORPGs)

As for the DirectX thing, who's actually surprised by this? DirectX 10 is an interesting step, but to introduce a revision of the standard and then set a ridiculous set of requirements is just irritating on Microsoft's part. All that ends up happening is that each card becomes identical in every way except clockspeed...

 

[waterproofbob]

I am worried by your capacity to talk at length about yourself in third-person mode.

(I think that normally means you've been playing too many RPGs/MMORPGs)

as far as bob can remember he's never really played an RPG.
He did once spend a whole day talking in the third person, bob gave up after a physics lesson in which giving his opinions in the third person became a problem for this young bob.