DirectX 10.1 to be in Vista SP1, needs new gpu!!!

[MumboJumbo]

Spend it on her? No way! She probably spends £300 a month easy on clothes and that coloured stuff they rub on their cheeks & that!

True.... your both money wasters. You could be better off if you saved it for something else 600 extra quid a month gota be good for somthing

 

[jaykay]

But its still not free. Its still used up by some memory. You just dont have a say in it any more

No it doesnt, edram is where you store the 4xaa.
vdram is where you store the textures etc.
Yes it will use memory up, but not the memory that current cards use (vdram), it uses up edram which is new.

 

[Rezident]

Why do you need a new card every 3 months? The old ones are powerful enough to run the games. Think how much money youve spent which could have gone else where. Like holidays Spend it on your other half

Totall agree, except for the last bit

 

[lay-z-boy]

Microsoft's Sam Glassenberg told Next-Gen in a phone interview, "DX10.1 fully supports DX10 hardware. No hardware support is being removed....It's strictly a superset. It's basically an update to DX10 that extends the hardware functionality slightly."

He said that the update is similar to what Microsoft did with DX9. "We did make updates to [DX9] that extended the supported feature set.

"All the hardware is still supported, all the games still run, all the features are still there, we've just simply extended the feature set and the lifetime of the API," he said...

Glassenberg conceded that "There will be new features [with DX10.1], and those features may be exposed on new hardware, but this is similar to the model that we had with DX9...[except] with DX10.1, we're saying [to developers], 'if you want to support the new features, you have to support all of them [including original DX10 features].'"...

Even though DX10.1 will support current DX10 graphics hardware, today's DX10 hardware will not be able to support all of the features of DX10.1, which includes incremental improvements to 3D rendering quality....

Glassenberg also addressed rumors that DX10--currently exclusive to Vista--would be coming to Microsoft's Windows XP. It seems that DX10's Vista exclusivity is unlikely to change.

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6824&Itemid=2

Seems it doesn't need a new gpu but there will not be full support for dx10.1 in 10 hardware

 

[Sniper123]

By the time this matters this gen of cards will look like x800xt/6800ultra

 

[egraphixstudios]

i'll stick with my 8800gtx then

 

[clocka]

WOW - i wasnt expecting this kind of response when i posted this topic, is was meant to tell you guys of the news, its turned out into WWIII hehe.

Ppl who bought 8800's at launch wanted good performance in dx9 games, ppl who have bought them in last 3 months wanted to be able to play the latest games like bioshock, crysis, coh3 etc in their full dx10 glory, those were the ppl who i think will be gutted. I havent played any games in a while as ive got a 6800gt, ive been waiting for a decent price 65nm dx10 card with uvd2 decoding and hdmi out, now dx10.1 has been revealed im really glad i waited, will get an equivalent to the 640mb 8800 of the 8900 series when they are out

170 replies lol, i was expecting 5 posts saying thanks for the news or "doh".

 

[topshot]

why will people who have bought an 8800GTS in the last 3 months be gutted?

 

[TONY]

I only brought my card 3 weeks ago, you cannot wait around for the next best thing to come along all the time as you would never buy anything besides games that support 10.1 are a long way off and I will be ready for another upgrade by then (finances permiting).

 

[knowledge123]

why will people who have bought an 8800GTS in the last 3 months be gutted?

They won't be. The OP knew full well that this discussion would happen. 10.1 is a simple update, it won't break current DX10 cards. Bioshock probably won't support it, seen as it is out next week. This topic, imo, is a mountain out of a molehill.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

No one should need a new card every 3 months as theres no games, 8800's have been out since last November and theres been chuff all, were all playing old games still, games the x1950's/x1800/x1900/7900's etc... can all cope with, ive just finished off Doom 3, cracking use for an 8800 GTS that.

 

[UniqueID]

it really doesn't matter till a decent dx10 game is released...

 

[pegasus1]

No one should need a new card every 3 months as theres no games, 8800's have been out since last November and theres been chuff all, were all playing old games still, games the x1950's/x1800/x1900/7900's etc... can all cope with, ive just finished off Doom 3, cracking use for an 8800 GTS that.

Forgetting Armed Assualt (which is poorly coded), DIRT is the 1st game ive played that looks remotely 'next gen' and uses my GTX.
But your right, its nice to be able to go back to FEAR and COD2 and ramp up all the settings with 16xAA/AF at 1600x1200. Im using the 2nd fastest card around (counting the ultra) to play a 2 year old game.