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Offline Horn

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Will this blow up my machine? DX9 out.
« on: December 20, 2002, 10:37:18 AM »
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Offline vorticon

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« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2002, 10:51:24 AM »
about to try it...shouldent cause to much problems tho
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Offline maxtor

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« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2002, 10:54:44 AM »
taking that leap myself ...
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« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2002, 10:57:54 AM »
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about to try it...shouldent cause to much problems tho


Now there, given the history of MS, goes an eternal optimist.

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« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2002, 11:00:19 AM »
I'll think I'll bring up the rear in this lemming route march. ;)
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Offline AKIron

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« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2002, 11:00:39 AM »
From an ignorant standpoint I'm willing to risk that DX9 is more of a feature adding update than a change in existing functions. I've been wrong before.
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« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2002, 11:15:08 AM »
bless the guinea pigs.


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« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2002, 11:16:27 AM »
Please report here when/if you can :)
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« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2002, 11:32:41 AM »
I would not recommend doing it, as there is no software on the market that uses DX9, and you are introducing a potentially big problem into your system for no benefit.
The claim of performance gains occurs for DX9 based software.
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« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2002, 11:57:27 AM »
I'll start downloading new versions of DX when MS starts including a proper uninstall program.  Until then I use the minimum required version of DX for the games I play.  I've had too many completely porked computers courtesy of Macro$haft.
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Offline Horn

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« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2002, 12:00:29 PM »
MS sez: "DirectX 9.0 includes security and performance updates" --are they lying? MS also sez it can't be uninstalled.

Have you tested it w/ AH? -- Not you Funked, Skuzzy...
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« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2002, 12:13:08 PM »
More MS tidbits:

"Some of the new functionality built into DirectX 9.0 may even enhance the quality and performance of your existing titles."

"Due to enhancements in the way DirectPlay functions, it is strongly recommended that all users who want to join or host multiplayer games upgrade to DirectX 9.0. A user with earlier versions of DirectX may have trouble joining or hosting games, or my see a significant performance reduction when playing with users who have 9.0 installed."


DX9 Supported software:

Dark Age of Camelot

Age of Mythology

IL-2 Sturmovik

Freedom Force

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Medal of Honor Allied Assault

Sims Vacation
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« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2002, 01:00:51 PM »
I've got the DX 9 earlier today (downloaded it, of course :-D) and all went well.

First of all, my video card is a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64 MB version

Did several tests on it using dxdiag, no problems.

And as someone just mentioned - playing online games with dx9 against dx8 players will cause dx8 players to lose performance.... maybe that's what happened earlier when I played UT2003 with the new dx9 - noticed that the gameplay didn't perform as well after a while because most of the players have dx8 or 8.1. Ah well.

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« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2002, 09:37:23 PM »
I downloaded it last night and ran it for 4 hours in Aces High and again this afternoon for a few hours. It seems to be stable but there is no improvement frame-rate wise for me at-least.  If all you play is Aces High its not worth the time to download as far as I can tell. I have not tried any other games yet.
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Offline AKIron

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« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2002, 10:01:48 PM »
DX9 ok for me so far, Radeon 9000 Pro
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