First DX10 game to be released?

Shaye87 · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:24

As on topic, what is the first DirectX 10 game to be relased? and when?

And one more thing, if I have a DX10 card but running a DX10 game on XP, it won't be as good as on vista or it just won't run?

Cheers

Jokester · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:28

The game will only work in DX9 or potentially won't work at all if the developer codes the game so that it won't work without DX10.

Jokester

BFG_9000 · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:29

DX10 games will run on XP but with only DX9.c code, you will not benifit from the magical graphic features of DX10 as you would running a game on Vista

Yarkanat · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:31

SO in other words: Vista=DX10 XP=DX9 You can´t run the DX10 effects on XP even if you have a G80 or R600

Tute · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:36

Yarkanat said:
SO in other words: Vista=DX10 XP=DX9 You can´t run the DX10 effects on XP even if you have a G80 or R600

Exactly.

agnes · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:51

which is why everyone is getting annoyed just like me, im not upgradeing to vista till there are service packs avalible, and by the time this happens, il have to suffer with my 8800 GTX's playing crysis with pantsy dx9

so annoying

ags

MikeWild74 · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:03

agnes said:
which is why everyone is getting annoyed just like me, im not upgradeing to vista till there are service packs avalible, and by the time this happens, il have to suffer with my 8800 GTX's playing crysis with pantsy dx9

so annoying

ags

this is why buying DX10 cards b4 Dx10 was a bit pointless (unless u like paying the new tech premium).

Jokester · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:04

MikeWild74 said:
this is why buying DX10 cards b4 Dx10 was a bit pointless (unless u like paying the new tech premium).

Ignoring the fact ther're also the fastest DX9 cards by a wide margin.

Jokester

modo77 · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:08

agnes said:
im not upgradeing to vista till there are service packs avalible

Really don't understand why people say this. What if there is only a few updates ever needed and they don't make a SP, you'll never get it?

DaveyD · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:20

MikeWild74 said:
this is why buying DX10 cards b4 Dx10 was a bit pointless (unless u like paying the new tech premium).

That would be like saying it was pointless buying AMD 64 chips, because I'd have thought most people are still on 32bit XP, taking advantage of how great they are at being 32bit processors compared to the old 32bit XP chips.

LoadsaMoney · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:23

agnes said:
which is why everyone is getting annoyed just like me, im not upgradeing to vista till there are service packs avalible, and by the time this happens, il have to suffer with my 8800 GTX's playing crysis with pantsy dx9

so annoying

ags

Pantsy Dx9, it will look the same as Dx10. :confused:

Where is everyone getting the huge graphical change from, Dx10 is about taking the load of the CPU so games will run better than they would do in Dx9.

Slam62 · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:26

Any way ... correct me if I'm wrong but hasnt crysis been delayed a year and the fsx patch also hence no dx10 in anger for a year of course if I could be mistaken ... what about ut2007

DaveyD · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:27

Slam62 said:
Any way ... correct me if I'm wrong but hasnt crysis been delayed a year and the fsx patch also hence no dx10 in anger for a year of course if I could be mistaken ... what about ut2007

Crysis wont be out til at least late this year, maybe 2008. No idea about FSX, I'd have thought UT2007 would be out sometime 2007

LoadsaMoney · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:30

Was just a rumour 2008 for Crysis, its more towards the end of this year i think, and yeah the FSX patch has been delayed, not sure about anything else, but everyones rushing out for Dx10 cards as they cut through Dx9 like nothing, they aint bothered about Dx10 as they know nowts using it yet, and by the time anything is using it then their G80's are going to well old, so they only buying em for Dx9, if anyones daft enough to buy em for Dx10, then oh dear is all i can say.

There isn't any Vista drivers yet anyway, and it ships next week, so why are they gona release games for it if you can't even use yor graphics cards.

ps3ud0 · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:38

Jokester said:
The game will only work in DX9 or potentially won't work at all if the developer codes the game so that it won't work without DX10.

Jokester

Very likely that the SC series will be the first to drop DX9 capability, looking at how lazy the developers are in supporting certain Shader Models at the moment... :rolleyes:

ps3ud0

Yarkanat · 7 Jan 2007 at 19:00

agnes said:
which is why everyone is getting annoyed just like me, im not upgradeing to vista till there are service packs avalible, and by the time this happens, il have to suffer with my 8800 GTX's playing crysis with pantsy dx9

so annoying

ags

I wouldn´t be worried about Crysis just yet, since it´s 2008 Q1 the soonest..

I am though worried about the cost of the Vista :eek:

Hopefully I will get Enterprise from my work for free

locutus12 · 7 Jan 2007 at 19:21

Supreme Commander may be the first game out with some DX10 features, more of a hybrid though than a true DX10 game.

Briton · 7 Jan 2007 at 19:21

What exactly are the effects we'll see from DX10 that we don't get with DX9?

locutus12 · 7 Jan 2007 at 19:23

Briton said:
What exactly are the effects we'll see from DX10 that we don't get with DX9?

several, primarily better shading and lighting techniques, image quality improvements under compression. the main advantage is the way games are built under DX10, its a hell of a lot easier for the producers of games to make DX10 titles than it was to make DX9 due to a more unified coding base.

tomanders91 · 7 Jan 2007 at 19:49

company of heroes is getting a dx10 patch shortly after vista.