xbox 360 DX10?

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Does the 360 have full support for DX10 or does it have DX9 with some of the perks of DX10?
 
It's definitely not DX10 compatible. I seem to remember reading that it's like DX9+. All of DX9 plus a few other things, but nothing close to DX10.
 
BizKit123 said:
So your saying next gen PC, will look better than a PS3 or 360?
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by leaps and bounds, just like PC's of last year looked much much much better than PS2 or XBox
 
The benefit of consoles though is that when a game is designed around it they tend to be able to do alot more with their hardware than a similar PC. Example, a 700 MHz Xbox running Halo better than a 1.5+ GHz computer with more powerful CPU, more RAM, better video card, etc.

I wonder if there's a way to firmware update to DX10 though...not sure how that would work.

If you bought a "cutting edge" computer the same day a console launched the console would outlast it by threefold or more probably.
 
Doesn't DX10 have a lot to do with increasing performance, rather than COMPLETELY changing the visuals?

I know it has a few nifty new effects, but wasn't it said in interviews and whatnot that it was more performance than it was new visuals?

And isn't it true that most of those Crysis screenshots are DX9? A lot of people falsely believe that the reason the game looks so good is because of DX10.
 
kabob983 said:
The benefit of consoles though is that when a game is designed around it they tend to be able to do alot more with their hardware than a similar PC. Example, a 700 MHz Xbox running Halo better than a 1.5+ GHz computer with more powerful CPU, more RAM, better video card, etc.

I wonder if there's a way to firmware update to DX10 though...not sure how that would work.

If you bought a "cutting edge" computer the same day a console launched the console would outlast it by threefold or more probably.
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bad example IMO, that game had a serious problem of consolitis, it was horribly optimized for PC. but i get what you are saying, getting such old harware like that to spit out some incredible gfx has to take incredible genious on the devs part. it must be easier to fine tune on Consoles rather than PC's or something
 
Owell 1 year and its already obsolete, time for the trash with you xboxy

But maybe "elements" of DirectX 10 would be integrated into the Xbox 360 environment.Since I believe the direct x on the xbox is kind of a mix all around.
 
independantvariable said:
Owell 1 year and its already obsolete, time for the trash with you xboxy

But maybe "elements" of DirectX 10 would be integrated into the Xbox 360 environment.Since I believe the direct x on the xbox is kind of a mix all around.
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DirectX 9 came out a year after Xbox, but that didn't make it obsolete (it runs on DirectX 8).
 
kabob983 said:
If you bought a "cutting edge" computer the same day a console launched the console would outlast it by threefold or more probably.
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If by "outlast" you mean remain the same crappy graphics while the PC platform continues to constantly improve than I guess you are right, though thats kind of a stupid way to look at it.
 
CodeX said:
If by "outlast" you mean remain the same crappy graphics while the PC platform continues to constantly improve than I guess you are right, though thats kind of a stupid way to look at it.
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That's actually not what I'm talking about but thx for trying.

I'm referring to the fact that the PC will hit a wall of performance that the console will not. Games will continually develop for the console that look steadily better and better while on that PC you dropped $ for nothing will be released that you can play.

Sure if you put any old console up against a much newer PC there isn't going to be a comparison. Of course, being a poor guy myself I'd rather drop $250-400 for a console that will keep cranking out great games for 6 years as opposed to buying a PC for a few thousand that will be unable to run anything and look decent in 1 year...
 
kabob983 said:
That's actually not what I'm talking about but thx for trying.

I'm referring to the fact that the PC will hit a wall of performance that the console will not. Games will continually develop for the console that look steadily better and better while on that PC you dropped $ for nothing will be released that you can play.

Sure if you put any old console up against a much newer PC there isn't going to be a comparison. Of course, being a poor guy myself I'd rather drop $250-400 for a console that will keep cranking out great games for 6 years as opposed to buying a PC for a few thousand that will be unable to run anything and look decent in 1 year...
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Ok.
 
aznpxdd said:
Ok.
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I've got pretty much an identical rig to yours. Only difference is that I have an X800XT PE instead of the X850 and the RAM is PC4000.

How many current games can you play on high settings? Oblivion? Heck no. Company of Heroes? Highly unlikely. I stopped being able to max out settings a looooong time ago. Whereas console games tend to look vurry nice for a long amount of time after they're released.

That's the only point I'm trying to make.
 
OP: you could've done a google search and found the answer, and the threads already degenerated into another "i5 t3h x80x 360 b377ur th@n t3h pC!?11!one??" thread... :rolleyes:
 
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