dx 10 upgrade question

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alkaline

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if i but a 7900gtx now, will i be able to upgrade it to run at dx10 later? or will i have to buy a completly new card to run dx10 when it arrives.........on that note, anyone know the expected eta for dx10?
 
DX10 comes out with Vista, so sometime in 2007.

And no, you can't. That card doesn't have the hardware support for the new DX10 features. All of the games you'll play that are "DX10" will be running in DX9.0c for you.

It's like a GeForce 4 now... if you've played HL2 you'll know that you can RUN DX9.0c a computer with that card, but the card only has support for DX8.1 hardware features.

The software thing goes out the window as well with DX10, since you NEED vista for it. No backwards compatibility with older OS's, as far as I've heard.


But yeah I guess if you can't wait a 7900 series card is fine. Also remember that it'll be quite a while after DX10 is released before games really start using those features. Developers wont waste their time writing DX10 shaders n stuff when only a select few (the incredibly wealthy) can acutally use them. By that time, you'll probably be ready to upgrade anyways.


The only three games so far that are CONFIRMED with DX10 support are Flight Sim X, Halo 2 for PC (Note: DX10 ONLY, can't run on Non-Vista comps or non-DX10 hardware), and Crysis.

Crysis still looks friggin amazing in DX9.0c.
 
DX10 doesn't have that much to do with looking better as much as RUNNING BETTER and getting more FPS with more on the screen at once. That way we can get better looking games that don't turn into slide shows.

So ya, Crysis will look good in 9.0c, but it won't play as smoothly as if you had the DX10 performance improvements with the DX10 hardware enabled card....

I would personally wait for the DX10 cards to come out. Shouldn't be very long now...
 
Cypher19 said:
The last DX7 part that NV made was the GeForce2.
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what about geforce 4 mx440? was that thing capable of DX8? IIRC it was based on the geforce2 though. that was the first video card i ever bought back in 2003 and i cant believe they still make those.
 
InternalStorm said:
DX10 doesn't have that much to do with looking better as much as RUNNING BETTER and getting more FPS with more on the screen at once. That way we can get better looking games that don't turn into slide shows.

So ya, Crysis will look good in 9.0c, but it won't play as smoothly as if you had the DX10 performance improvements with the DX10 hardware enabled card....

I would personally wait for the DX10 cards to come out. Shouldn't be very long now...
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even if DX10 cards came out next week what difference would it make? it will close to a year before we actually see Vista to use the DX10 features.
 
trek554 said:
what about geforce 4 mx440? was that thing capable of DX8? IIRC it was based on the geforce2 though. that was the first video card i ever bought back in 2003 and i cant believe they still make those.
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I..uh..meant..uh...in terms ooof...TECHNOLOGY! Yeah, because the GF4 MX440 is worse than a GeForce2, so it...*runs away*
 
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