Looking for an old thread

SlowSpyder

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A while back (maybe 3-6 months ago?) there was a thread that compared some DX10 games to DX9 versions of the same game. Are there games that look significantly better now using DX10 vs. DX9?

A coworker of mine asked if I thought he should upgrade (side grade? down grade? :eek: ) to Vista to use DX10 for some of his games. I remember seeing that thread, but didn't remember what the conclusion was, or if there are big differences yet.

Also, I assume DX10 is harder on hardware? In generaly will a DX10 capable card get lower fps using the DX10 path vs. DX9? I'm sure this has probably been gone over, but I'm finally thinking about picking up a copy of Vista 64 (being able to use all of my ram appeals to me :) ) and was just curious about the performance difference.

If anyone can find that old thread or cares to point out a few games that I can look at I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
 

zerocool84

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Nov 11, 2004
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Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
A while back (maybe 3-6 months ago?) there was a thread that compared some DX10 games to DX9 versions of the same game. Are there games that look significantly better now using DX10 vs. DX9?

A coworker of mine asked if I thought he should upgrade (side grade? down grade? :eek: ) to Vista to use DX10 for some of his games. I remember seeing that thread, but didn't remember what the conclusion was, or if there are big differences yet.

Also, I assume DX10 is harder on hardware? In generaly will a DX10 capable card get lower fps using the DX10 path vs. DX9? I'm sure this has probably been gone over, but I'm finally thinking about picking up a copy of Vista 64 (being able to use all of my ram appeals to me :) ) and was just curious about the performance difference.

If anyone can find that old thread or cares to point out a few games that I can look at I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

You will get lower fps on DX10. To me there is no real reason to need to upgrade to DX10 but Vista is a good OS regardless of what the haters say. Vista is stable if you don't run super old hardware or software. Plus it'll recognize more than 4GB of memory. Your friend would have to have top hardware to run games like Crysis and Stalker in DX10 in stable fps.
 

bigsnyder

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Check the latest articles over at HardOCP. It appears a couple of games are starting to take better advantage of DX10.