Direct X 10.1 in Vista SP1 requires new hardware

[Falker]

Vista Service Pack 1 comes with an important update for gamers - DirectX 10.1. The catch? You need brand new hardware to support it, and NVIDIA enthusiasts are left totally out in the cold.

One of the benefit Windows Vista brought to the gaming table was the next version of DirectX – version 10. With the potential improvements to 3D gaming potentially outweighing the anticipated performance drop in running games on a more resource-hungry operating system, most hardcore gamers waited until ATI and NVIDIA released their DirectX 10-capable GPUs before taking the plunge and upgrading to Vista.

To clarify, neither NVIDIA’s GeForce 8 series nor ATI’s Radeon HD 2x series of GPUs support DirectX 10.1. ATI’s new products – the Radeon 3870 and 3850 – do support DirectX 10.1, but NVIDIA apparently has no plans to release a DirectX 10.1-capable GPU.


Link:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/01/1 ... w-hardware

[Falker]

This might be a little old , but it is one way that Microsoft is flushing out the old hardware. And here I thought my computer would last little longer. Apparently you’ll still need to rebuild it once every year to keep up.

[Softball]

Solution? Don't use Direct X 10.1.

I still use DX9.0c for most of the games I play.

[Falker]

Oh I'm just mad at MS at the moment. I think they are devious crooks.

[VEGETA]

ya i heard about this a while ago. My cards are directx 10.0 and I am damed if I am changing them because M$ dose some dumb move like this. Fine new card required for dx10.0 fine 9 is old can live with that.. but then 1 year later hardware worth 500$ outdated. Honestaly I can;t think of a more perfect example of a manopaly.

[Tach Deneva]

manopaly

Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Pacific Avenues, along with Boardwalk and Park Place, can net you some major moolah and put the hurt on anybody coming down that side of the board. Especially if you have hotels on them.

[Gator]

10.1 doesn't offer much of an upgrade over 10 ... wouldn't worry.

[Softball]

Manopaly?

Veg, sometimes you scare me.

[Jedi Master]

Really. 10.1 includes only minor changes and is fully backwards compatible ie you can run 10.1 games on 10.0 cards just fine, they just won't have every last feature.