Thanks Dale I appreciate the in-depth response...I do not particularly play
any so called war games but I am more into the simulators (racing or Flying)
but as always appreciate a knowledgeable person who is up on this stuff...
"Dale White" <dale.white@NOinsightbb.NOcom> wrote in message
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> I've only seen teh crysis demos of DX 10 and I haven't seen the same thing
> renedered in DX9.0c. So it's hard to say at this time.
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> I don't think you'll have to wait a year, ATI is *Suppose* to release
> their new cards in May. And the first DX10 game aren't listed untul
> Aug-Sept (though obviously dates might change). Supreme Commander is
> suppose to release a DX10 patch, so is Flight Sim X. Not sure about CnC3.
> Bioshock, Hellgate London, Unreal Tournament andCrysis are the big titles
> I'm looking at to measure the DX10 games and thus cards.
>
> Here's some promo screenshots of DX10 titles
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=77741
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> I'm not for sure the first generation of DX10 games are going to offer a
> huge leap over DX9.0c. They might, maybe they are really putting some
> solid effort into making a super launch of DX10 titles. More then likely,
> the first batch will give us some nice visuals, maybe a performance gain,
> but it will be the games in 2008 and 2009 that will really bring DX10 to
> life.
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> Absolutely no reason to buy at this time, until ATI releases their cards,
> and then I would wait for at least 1 DX10 game to come out and show it's
> stuff. I'm buying a card for Crysis no matter what, as I don't think my
> X1900XTX is going to cut it.
>
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> "Drew" <sheba3169@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>> Does anyone know whether we will see that much difference in dx 10 versus
>> dx 9 games and do you think it is worth waiting on a wider variety of dx
>> 10 cards to come out...
>> I am currently running a 7900gs Nvidia card but this board supports Ati's
>> crossfire and I am going to be switching...I was curious whether to do it
>> now or wait a yr and see what comes down the pipeline's so to
>> speak...Most of what I play are racing sim's such as Rfactor,,Live for
>> speed (not the need for speed series) netkar Pro or GTR2...These are
>> higher end but I do not think they are necessarily DX10 ready....Any
>> observations would help
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