DirectX 10 card on Windows XP

[Mr Spoon]

what happens if you run a DirectX 10 card such as a 8800GT on Windows XP with DirectX 9 ?
will you be missing anything ?

thanks

 

[Roeg1]

what happens if you run a DirectX 10 card such as a 8800GT on Windows XP with DirectX 9 ?
will you be missing anything ?

thanks

Short story no mate, long story yes you wont be able to use direct x 10 features/effects as your using direct x9 your missing nothing really though to be honest.

Its all compatible.

 

[bledd]

i run my 8800gt on xp64

the 8800gt isn't quite powerful enough to run the games that do support Dx10 at a decent res when using dx10 anyway -Company of Hereos for instance, it flies in dx9 , but chugs a bit on dx10

 

[Mr Spoon]

ok thanks, I was thinking of maybe getting 2x 8800 GTs in SLi, seems quite good on tomshardware benchies

I'm trying to avoid Vista !

 

[bledd]

avoiding it totally is daft,

it's a decent os, just a little bloaty

 

[Amnesia]

what happens if you run a DirectX 10 card such as a 8800GT on Windows XP with DirectX 9 ?
will you be missing anything ?

thanks

yes....massive slow down

 

[frankmcg]

Has a single game been released yet where the supposed improved quality/features of DX10 have outweighed the slow-down vs DX9?
I thought the whole point of DX10 was that it was more efficient but eg Crysis seems to indicate the opposite?!

 

[reflux]

Basically the only benefit of DX10 was that it forced the GPU manufacturers to build stream processors instead of dedicated pixel/vertex units, and so we're beginning to see GPGPU programs.

Other than that, it was a waste of time.