What will my cards do when dx10 ...

Yes, for the near future DX10 games like Crysis will include a DX9 path. It won't have all of the eye candy of DX10 but it will run.
 
It won't play IN Direct X 10, but you will be able to play the DX10 games themselves.
 
You'll still be able to play DX10 games for a while, but any of the clever graphics stuff won't work.
 
hossdaddy said:
WIll my cards(in my sig) be able to play dx10 based games at all?
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To clarify previous responses: The answer to your question is no, you can't run DX10, but as another poster said, you can run the game if they make it work for DX9.
 
I will confuse thing even more... Even people with DX10 cards might want to play in DX9 mode because DX10 mode performance on some games will suck.
 
Cyant said:
I will confuse thing even more... Even people with DX10 cards might want to play in DX9 mode because DX10 mode performance on some games will suck.
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Not on Crysis or Bioshock which is what the OP asked about.
 
Haha I will believe the devs when the game is between my hands and I see it for myself =) Until then DX10 mode will always kill the FPS to me. Either that or Bioshock and Crysis DX9 mode is just poorly optimized then of course DX10 mode will be nearly the same speed =)
 
theres alot more shit going on in DX10 of course its going to hurt performance, DX9 will always be faster, other wise theres no reason to use DX10 over DX9 modes.
 
No reason to get a dx10 card yet either until the next generation of cards. Its like buying a GeforceFX card when directx9 came out. It ran so crappy on those cards until the generation after that. Since they had to work out the kinks and get all the optimizations up to date on the directx. Pretty sure once the next round of cards come we'll be in good shape :)
 
Cyant said:
Haha I will believe the devs when the game is between my hands and I see it for myself =) Until then DX10 mode will always kill the FPS to me. Either that or Bioshock and Crysis DX9 mode is just poorly optimized then of course DX10 mode will be nearly the same speed =)
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I've played both. I am not speaking based on "rumors" or what the devs say :) I'm speaking from factual experience :)
 
Well the people who bought geforce 5 FX when the 9700 Pro was available asked for it anyway... Too bad ATI have become sloppy, the 2900XT could have been great if they added the hardware for the AA instead of just relying on the Shader pipelines to do the dirty work.
 
Conker said:
No reason to get a dx10 card yet either until the next generation of cards. Its like buying a GeforceFX card when directx9 came out. It ran so crappy on those cards until the generation after that. Since they had to work out the kinks and get all the optimizations up to date on the directx. Pretty sure once the next round of cards come we'll be in good shape :)
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no its not... and all you have to prove that is the poorly patched games for DX10 performance
 
Cyant said:
I will confuse thing even more... Even people with DX10 cards might want to play in DX9 mode because DX10 mode performance on some games will suck.
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or, speaking for myself, even people with DX10 cards (8800 GTS here) might want to play in DX9 mode because microsoft can shove Vista someplace the sun doesn't shine
 
Cyant said:
Haha I will believe the devs when the game is between my hands and I see it for myself =) Until then DX10 mode will always kill the FPS to me. Either that or Bioshock and Crysis DX9 mode is just poorly optimized then of course DX10 mode will be nearly the same speed =)
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The game wont run at all if it is between your hands.
You will have to install in on your PC :p
 
Again to answer your question with a little more clarity. No, your cards cannot run DX10 and so any game that relies soley on DX10 features will not work.

However for the next few years games are likely to support both DX10 and DX9, the additional performance and features that DX10 brings wont work in the game so you will get an overall lower graphics fidelity.

I will confuse thing even more... Even people with DX10 cards might want to play in DX9 mode because DX10 mode performance on some games will suck.
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I think this is an oversimplification. There is nothing to say that you have to use all the DX10 effects when using the DX10 code path, only unless the developers give users only basic controls over visuals (for example: Tomb Raider Legend's all or nothing aproach to "next gen" settings)

The DX10 codepath provides increases in performance compared to DX9 when only rendering DX9 based effects, in the case where people own DX10 capable cards but they aren't very fast, they can select to use the DX10 code path and simply not use any newer DX10 only graphical features, giving them a boost in frame rate.

In fact there's no reason at all to think that if a DX10 capable card is detected that games won't automatically select that as the render path for you.
 
Conker said:
No reason to get a dx10 card yet either until the next generation of cards. Its like buying a GeforceFX card when directx9 came out. It ran so crappy on those cards until the generation after that. Since they had to work out the kinks and get all the optimizations up to date on the directx. Pretty sure once the next round of cards come we'll be in good shape :)
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Uhhh yeh there is... the cards pwn all others out right now even if you don't plan on using it for DX10. My 8800GTS 640Mb is awesome and I wouldn't trade it for anything. If it sux when DX10 is out, merry Christmas or happy birthday for me. I play UT2004 and it's awesome.
 
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