Comments on: Is DirectX 10 Worth It?

By: The Flash Gaming Revolution - Game Devigner

The Flash Gaming Revolution - Game Devigner — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:26:39 +0000

[...] And when the feature sets between DirectX 9.0x and DirectX 10 were put side-by-side, many gamers resisted the idea of going through the trouble of upgrading for a couple new neat shaders. XP was good enough and even continues to be good enough for the most recent PC games. And from [...]

By: henk

henk — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:43:02 +0000

Just hack crysis on Dx9 its nearly the same as DX10 (the water, sunburst, etc..)
As for the rest .. Im no fan boy, but I dont like vista just because you gotta have about 2 gig min. or 4gig for vista ultimate

By: Myself

Myself — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:35:01 +0000

It’s not a good thing that you should need to upgrade to some crappy, laggy old OS that apparently needs 512-1GB of RAM just to use to play the latest games. Microsoft can go kiss my ass.

By: model

model — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:19:33 +0000

Vsync no longer work on DX10, both ATI and NVIDIA.
Glad I bought Vista Ultimate for 2$.
Should have bought Chinese take out instead.

By: auoc44

auoc44 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:39:36 +0000

Vista was bad when it was first released after updates very few hardware issues (beside buy new hardware – obvious – upgrade OS then upgrade hardware)

As for DX10 it comes with Vista YOU CANNOT GET IT WITH XP OR DOWNLOAD FOR XP.

Vista is so much better now. prob is people havent TRIED it again since it was released and as for OSX mac stole the concepts from M$ when vista was in developemnt (7 years in dev)

As for DX10 the platform allows develps to utilise so much the plines and tex mapping is amazing

By: Hitman21

Hitman21 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:23:13 +0000

I find it funny that everyone mentions Vista has Dx10 but they forget to metion you have to buy a $500 card to even be able to use

By: Somebodywhoknows

Somebodywhoknows — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:50:21 +0000

Look. All i had to do was get a souncard driver (which the vista compatibility scan sent me to) & one for my wireless connector (which was found on Belkin website). Runs sweet as, no messin, no horror stories. The subtle graphical changes on Company of Heroes is sweet, an its just a matter of time until the “subtle” changes become “big” changes. Crysis will be the first to fully use DX10 an that looks a significant diff to DX9 if ya askin me. So wait till ya see the future…………And i own a PS3, PSP, Nintendo Wii an a mofo of a PC so i know what im chattin when it comes to games. NB: VISTA IS NOT THE F UP PEOPLE MAKE IT OUT TO BE.

By: Lollop

Lollop — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:24:14 +0000

ive used vista since January and once you have got use to it and now every works (ie drivers released) its much better than XP. I’m not going to list everything but the fact it loads progs twice as quick, looks 100 x nicer and has direct x10 support should be enough. Vista uses only a small amount of extra mhz, my core 2 duo 6600 rests at an average of 3% and ram is so cheap now anyway, buy some more cheapskates, 4 gig will run Vista for you and play any game without bottlenecking.. so what difference does it make? At the moment, due to the fact the games are both direct x9 and 10 means they dont take the full advantage, direct x10 will look better in game though, like turning the graphical setting up a notch more than a OMG look at that reaction.

By: Mike Tsafaroff

Mike Tsafaroff — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:09:03 +0000

I am having a hell of a time trying to figure out what to do. I put together a super computer ($4000.00) in March 07, and stuck with XP as it was serving me well and there was no reason to change. I’m now thinking of upgrading to SLI (8800 GTX OC}, and don’t know if its time for vista or not, especially if the difference is minor, I also do not want to compromise performance for subtle DX 10 features. Please let me know what you think THANX

cpu-X6800
ram-2gigs
gpu-8800 GTX OC
mboard-BFG tech 680i SLI

By: Aristotle

Aristotle — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:36:22 +0000

@Xboxlenny

That may be true–though, many people who haven’t even touched Vista just bash it to ‘fit in’. Just like the Xbox 360 Vs. PS3 war. Most people who bash the PS3 haven’t even touched it, and vice versa by way of 360.

As a personal and business user of Vista, XP and OSX, I’d have to say that Vista has its ups and downs. Its ups is that it is rather easy to use for first-time users–much unlike XP (which was quite a bit more complicated despite the help and support center). OSX was really only good for working (BBEdit, Transfer, etc etc).

Given, that, XP is the platform for which most games used to be made, the fact that many games now have specific benefits that can only be utilized by Vista (in addition to the fact that vista DOES look rather smexy), it’s good.

Plus, Xboxlenny, don’t bash Vista because you’re mad that the 360 won’t get any hot crysis smex.

By: BounceDK

BounceDK — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:37:10 +0000

Not worth it especially since it requires that awful Vista. Ugh no thanks.

By: Stephany

Stephany — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:04:25 +0000

The only difference I noticed is that the one on the right looks like she just had some Botox and changed out her Fox Fur collar for rabbit instead.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:43:55 +0000

DX10 was designed to be more a refinement than an evolution. So yeah, it’s not suprising when the differences are subtle at best.

By: Xboxlenny

Xboxlenny — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:55:12 +0000

Vista is crap. it is being hailed as a discrase to microsoft and being called to Windows ME 2. I am a fan of windows XP and even more OS-X. Vista stole and copied so many feature thats in OS-X. i love my Mac and Os-x is better.

By: Joelteon7

Joelteon7 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:54:03 +0000

I agree with Rollet, except I thought the one on the left, due to it being ‘better’, was D10. Hmmm.

By: kearnel

kearnel — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:50:11 +0000

i agree with norbit. i got 2 8800’s in sli with vista ultimate x64 and i also havnt had any problems, all the games i play on xp work on vista and i get the added bonus of dx10 features which i must admit are awesome in world in conflict

By: Da Soc

Da Soc — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:48:33 +0000

From what I’ve heard from all the people I know, it can be a total pain, and not to mention it takes more disk storage space and uses up more memory.

I might install it on my secondary hard drive just for games like crysis, but that’s it really.

Maybe after they work out all the bugs.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:03:04 +0000

“It’s still not worth having to deal with the crap that is vista.”

I bit the bullit and upgraded to Vista last month and I’ve had no problems whatsoever. Describing it as ‘crap’ is a bit retarded to say the least.

By: Rollett

Rollett — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:47:11 +0000

I Actualy like the one on the left more ^_^

By: Da Soc

Da Soc — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:47:03 +0000

I don’t think it’s really that important, or now, at least.

The only game that’s really fully utilized it so far is Crysis.

It’s still not worth having to deal with the crap that is vista.