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easyrider said:Looks like with 8800 dropping....is DX 9 finally dead?
trojan698 said:Yes, DX10 hasn't been released but DX9 is dead. In the meantime I shall be running all my games in OpenGL whether they want to or not.
Cyber-Mav said:behold the power of SHADER MODEL 4.0![]()
easyrider said:Looks like with 8800 dropping....is DX 9 finally dead?
Curio said:There isn't even a DX10 game out......and there isn't even a mainstream DX10 card available. DX9 has got another year left in it, no problems.
lay-z-boy said:And its as of now, utterly useless features
Seriously though, dx9 is far from dead, it will live on for quite some time to come, in both games and desktop.
Only untill q3/4 of next year will we see it begin phase out when the dx10/sm4 integrated chipsets from both intel and nvidia are on the market and shipping.
However, as we have never had so much of an overhaul before i am unable to say how fast it is to be adopted, in theory and internal testing it has proved to be much faster than dx9 and much easier to code, software wise, so its best to see what comes.![]()
jaykay said:yer why did you think dx10 was dead
techniqually its the new era of ununified proccessors etc which the 8800gtx has not dx10 gone have the pipelines etc
Problem is, you look at the Valve survey results of their users hardware and theres still tonnes of users with friggin Geforce 4 MXs..lay-z-boy said:Please proof read and/or make sure your posts make sense, many of them don't.
Cyber-Mav, Dx7 needs a headstone and fast, i don't know about you but im getting tired of old lame tech hanging around and holding everything back.
gord said:Problem is, you look at the Valve survey results of their users hardware and theres still tonnes of users with friggin Geforce 4 MXs..
Ulfhedjinn said:10/10 for most useless thread of 2006.
Dead Dog said:sorry if this is a daft Q but will dx10 games play on DX9 cards ?
i'm thinking of an upgrade but i'm thinking maybe its a bit of a silly time to do it with DX10 looming large.