DX8 and older games? . . .

[BlueWeasel]

I was thinking about upgrading from DX7a to DX8a (Final); however, I wonder if this move will hurt the performance of some of my older games. I am running a GF2 GTS and my system is running fine now. I do run some older DX games like Jedi Knight: DF2, Shogo MAD, Starcraft, etc., and while the performance is fine I am afraid that DX8 may cause some stability issues with the older games. I mean it was hard enough to get JK to run stable on my GF. . . .

Any experiences with DX8 and older (2+ years old) games?

If I do install DX8, I will make a ghost backup of partition just in case I want DX7 back. . . .it never hurts to be conservative. . .

 

[Brian48]

No slow downs, but DX8 did completely break compatibility with Requiem: Dark Angel.

 

[Antza]

I've been using DX8 from it's beta release in my Duron 800@1000 & Geforce2GTS system, and had no problems at all. I do play older games, from the oldest DX games to the just released ones, and also games way older like the early Ultimas! I don't really think that updating to DX8 makes any difference, but so far, I've had no problems. With a GF2, I don't think you should really worry about how the performance is in older games but stability instead. I'm pretty sure I've run JK myself with DX8... Shogo and Starcraft both work fine! Same goes for Command&Conquer, HalfLife, Civilization 2, Call To Power and Wargasm, at least. And many more, just can't remember them all!