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Posted: Sat, 11th Aug 2007 22:22 Post subject:

Lutzifer wrote:

well, the hardware manufacturers poor driver support is a broken-by-design problem of vista. Their paranoid driver architecture is the culprit here, not nvidia or ati...
i ll stay with xp

I disagree concerning the culprits. Wink

The final model for the driver architecture have been released near like a year and a half, the blame is all on hardware manufacturers like ati or nvidia, some others have done a proper job months before the final msdn vista have been released. Nvidia in particular was struggling to implement new functions in its drivers for its top-of-the-line directx 10 models, preferring to let all of its others users with half broken/bug fest/unoptimized drivers for months.

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Posted: Sun, 12th Aug 2007 13:47 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

dx10.1 games will be compatible with dx10.0 and i'm sure there will be no evident difference. Moreover before seeing a dx10.1 game will pass 2 years.

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Posted: Sun, 12th Aug 2007 13:50 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

"But don't get too upset just yet: 'Gamers shouldn't fret too much - 10.1 adds virtually nothing that they will care about and, more to the point, adds almost nothing that developers are likely to care about." http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/11/0524250&from=rss

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Posted: Sun, 12th Aug 2007 15:51 Post subject:

BlueSkyz wrote:

i can image the look of 8800 buyers now hahahahaha when they new card will be outdated with the new SP1

i have an 8800, and i couldnt be happier... as im sure pretty much ALL 8800 owners are... this IS the way of technology you know... shit does get outdated... new cards that take advantage of 10.1 features will too be obsolete within a year as well, when new features are avaliable that THOSE cards cant provide... yeah if you could see the look on 8800 owners faces, theyd be all smiles because the card is pretty fucking sweet.

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Posted: Sun, 12th Aug 2007 16:42 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

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Posted: Sun, 12th Aug 2007 20:00 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

+1

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Posted: Wed, 15th Aug 2007 13:02 Post subject:

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Microsoft's DirectX lead program manager has set the record straight on reports that DX10.1 will render the current crop of DX10-compatible hardware "obsolete."

Microsoft's Sam Glassenberg told Next-Gen in a phone interview, "DX10.1 fully supports DX10 hardware. No hardware support is being removed....It's strictly a superset. It's basically an update to DX10 that extends the hardware functionality slightly."

He said that the update is similar to what Microsoft did with DX9. "We did make updates to [DX9] that extended the supported feature set.

"All the hardware is still supported, all the games still run, all the features are still there, we've just simply extended the feature set and the lifetime of the API," he said.

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