DX9 Or DX10

mysticsniper · 18 Sep 2008 at 15:31

I am running with Vista Home Prem, and I have an 8800GT GPU, but where do you get the option to play a certain game in either DX9 or DX10???

Or does it just run everything is DX10 if its available?

Masterdog · 18 Sep 2008 at 15:33

Which game are you playing?

mysticsniper · 18 Sep 2008 at 15:35

Clear Sky
UT3
Hellgate
COD4
DOW Soulstorm

neoboy · 18 Sep 2008 at 15:36

I always thought it was all in game? I'm on XP and all DX10 options are simply greyed out in my games that support DX10.

jr1104 · 18 Sep 2008 at 15:39

The only game you have there which is DX10 enabled is Clear Sky, and it will only use it if you go into the graphics settings and enable it. Most DX10 games have to be enabled via ingame settings as far as I know.

Floyd · 18 Sep 2008 at 15:45

jr1104 said:
The only game you have there which is DX10 enabled is Clear Sky,

Hellgate London is also a DX 10 game IIRC

jr1104 is right about the options menu otherwise its a command line switch setting

jr1104 · 18 Sep 2008 at 16:52

Oh yeah, didn't notice that. Also, the only game where it will run in DX10 straight away is Crysis, as you have to add -DX9 to the shortcut to get it in DirectX 9.

Meloco · 18 Sep 2008 at 16:55

or for other games like crysis you go to:

Start -> games -> Right click on the icon and select play DX10. (e.g. Crysis)

Meloco · 18 Sep 2008 at 16:56

neoboy said:
I always thought it was all in game? I'm on XP and all DX10 options are simply greyed out in my games that support DX10.

Nope, it's the OS. Only vista supports DX10.

Monkeynut · 18 Sep 2008 at 17:00

mysticsniper said:
COD4

... Is DirectX 9 is it not?

KaneStatton · 18 Sep 2008 at 18:26

Monkeynut said:
... Is DirectX 9 is it not?

Yeh DX9, still looks pretty sweet though

mysticsniper · 18 Sep 2008 at 18:31

Meloco said:
or for other games like crysis you go to:

Start -> games -> Right click on the icon and select play DX10. (e.g. Crysis)

I don't get that function with Crysis???

TheRedZealot · 18 Sep 2008 at 21:44

mysticsniper said:
Clear Sky - In the main graphics options. full enchanced dynamic lighting i think its called
UT3 - No idea
Hellgate - No idea, i cba to install it
COD4 - Never knew it was Dx10
DOW Soulstorm - Same as the above

eekfek · 19 Sep 2008 at 08:24

mysticsniper said:
I don't get that function with Crysis???

Dx10 all the way, yes you need a PC with power and grunt but games are starting to take advantage of the lighting and extra affects it offers, Crysis is the obvious one even the ultra high dx9 cfg's dont compare to true dx10 ..

Company of Heroes has some really nice dx10 effects, and Lotro looks stunning in full dx10 mode

**navigate to the Crysis folder and select the dx10 .exe if its not in your 'games' listing ?**

Meloco · 19 Sep 2008 at 11:43

mysticsniper said:
I don't get that function with Crysis???

hmm you should do. Do you have the latest patch + DX10 installed, and latest gfx drivers?

FatRakoon · 20 Sep 2008 at 14:51

eekfek said:
Crysis is the obvious one even the ultra high dx9 cfg's dont compare to true dx10 ..

Correct apart from one thing.

Crysis is a crap game that only delivered to fools who fell for the junk.

Call Of duty 4 for example is only DX9 and delivers the goods completely without shouting its head off, while Crysis never shut up and failed for many people to impress.

COH Certainly looks better under DX10, as do a lot of games, but then, you will only ever notice if you actually compare them head to head.

Margaret · 20 Sep 2008 at 15:16

eekfek said:
Crysis is the obvious one even the ultra high dx9 cfg's dont compare to true dx10 ..

Haha what a load of tosh, Dx9 and 10 look virtually identical on Crysis.

Fail harder please.

mmj_uk · 20 Sep 2008 at 15:33

I have to admit I've not seen any advantage to running games in DX10 so far, if there are visible benefits the difference is so small that it doesn't justify the performance hit.

FatRakoon · 20 Sep 2008 at 17:47

mmj_uk said:
I have to admit I've not seen any advantage to running games in DX10 so far, if there are visible benefits the difference is so small that it doesn't justify the performance hit.

Bingo!

While I have to admit, that DX10 IS visually better than DX9... The differences are far too small to make out that DX10 is the be all and end all and quite frankly, so far, I remain unimpressed.

I had setup a pair of PCs, that are roughly on par with each other, I had an 8800GT in each, one has Vista64, the other XP64 and in Company of Heroes, there was definitely a difference... Mostly in the faces during the in-between film sequences actually, but the whoel game definitely was improved visually.

Not enough to go shouting about, but enough to notice.

Id like to say that UT3 also benefited too, but Im not sure it did... Certainly water looks nicer, but was that in my head?