Author Topic: DX 9.0 full version is out (Read 516 times)

Badguy · « **on:** December 21, 2002, 09:58:41 PM »

Just thought some may want to know.
http://www.micrsoft.com/downloads
The beta is also still listed but the end user is also there.

Merry Christmas

Happy Flying

Badguy

Max · « **Reply #1 on:** December 21, 2002, 10:50:58 PM »

Anyone try it out? Comments? Frame rate better/worse?

DmdMax

Badguy · « **Reply #2 on:** December 21, 2002, 11:00:33 PM »

I should have put this in my other post. I have the beta and there has ben no problems for me and none that I have heard of. As far as frame rate goes it will realy help the newest cards that can use the updates the rest of us it helps a little.

Happy Flying

Badguy

Lazerus1 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2002, 11:07:16 PM »

I took a frame rate hit and reverted back to dx8.1. I have an S3 graphics card though, average about 30 fps with dx8.1, it went down to about 15-20 with dx9.0. Think I'll wait for the 9.1 version to try it again.

SunKing · « **Reply #4 on:** December 22, 2002, 12:29:45 AM »

Smooth running here.. FrameRates in AH went up 5+ in smoke bombed bases..

maxtor · « **Reply #5 on:** December 22, 2002, 02:16:16 AM »

I saw no difference, but I guewss it is good to stay up to date - as I do with my nvida drivers anyway.

streakeagle · « **Reply #6 on:** December 22, 2002, 02:43:51 PM »

I downloaded catalyst 3.0 and DX9 together and installed... but AH performance dropped and even froze computer up completely.

Went back to previous catalyst 2.5 and performance/stability went back to normal.

So no problems with DX9, same performance as before on runway/takeoff/level flight through clear skies, but I haven't tried flying through smoke etc to know if anything changed there.

Tumor · « **Reply #7 on:** December 26, 2002, 09:03:50 AM »

Put DX9 on my system yesterday. Haven't tried AH yet but everything else seems fine with a couple of exceptions. This is in no way a complete look but right off the bat (XP) "disk cleanup" hangs up and alt-tab in and out of games either works fine or crashes the game completely (AH and OpFlash).