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Originally posted by buzz:

and you know because a full dx10 game and partial dx10 game are there sitting on your hd and you've done a comparison with the hardware you have, which you've stated isnt upto the job of playing a partial dx10 or a dx10 game?

Edit, oh, and just incase, the visual jump from dx9 to 10 will not big as big as the dx8 -> dx9 was, mainly due to dx 9 was the first widespread use of shaders and such compared to previous versions, dx10 is only a small improvment in that sense.

There is a big difference between direct x 10 and 9. The shaders are now unified this been one hek of a big difference. No the games aren't sitting on my hd niether, but you will be able to tell pretty easy. One of the reasons it doesn't work on Windows XP is because they started it from scratch. It treats everything differently, from the way it handles the games to the way it handles the dlls and files it uses. The full potential of direct x 10 has not been seen yet, games will be similar on direc x 9 but on dx10 games it will perform better. I have seen screenshots comparing Crysis to dx 9 games. It really hasn't implemented many dx 10 effects just tends to be lighting and colour. Oh and kickboy thanks for the info. Think I might wait for x2800xt, supposed to be faster than the nvidia because its not fully unified on the shaders.

Last edited by chris5050, November 18th, 2006 02:13 AM (Edited 1 times)

honestly IMO...after looking at an image comparison with dx9 and dx 10 screens, there's not much of a difference. just like how there's not much of a difference with dx 7 and dx 8. but thats just me.

chris5050, you understand nothing of what you are talking about. Don't even try to say there is a HUGE difference.

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Jason

There is its a total remake. Graphics no longer have pixel pipelines because of this. I beta tes for Microsoft and Im on the vista beta and trust me there is. I have watched DX10 advance accross the beta. Soon I will have access to Directx 10 specification prints aswell. Depending on what dx 10 game you looked at. If it was Crysis which is most likely its partial direct x 10. But really when you are ingame you going to see the difference even more, much more than a bunch of low res JPEG images. Most of the direc x 10 games if not all of the will not be available on Windows XP.