Vista questions

[jhayx7]

Ok guys, I was looking at a new laptop with a decent vid card (ATI X1600) so I could play some games again with my buds (nothing fancy, CC Generals and other RTS games, no FPS'). While talking to someone, they said that Vista will need a Direct X 10 video card to take advantage of all the cool features and that current video cards will not be able to upgrade to Direct X 10 via driver/firmware upgrades. Is this true? Would I be up poop creek without a paddle if I invested in a laptop right now with a DX9 card?

AGH even bigger newb! Mod, Please move to OS forum. Thanks!

 

[Jaxidian]

I'm running Vista on one of the Intel 950 integrated video cards on my laptop and it does all of the fancy things just fine as far as I can tell.

Good luck finding a laptop that's DX10-compatable unless you're willing to pay an arm and a leg for them! I hope I'm wrong and somebody corrects me - I want a cheap one too!