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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Badguy on December 21, 2002, 09:58:41 PM

Title: DX 9.0 full version is out
Post by: 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

Title: DX 9.0 full version is out
Post by: Max on December 21, 2002, 10:50:58 PM

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

DmdMax

Title: DX 9.0 full version is out
Post by: Badguy 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

Title: DX 9.0 full version is out
Post by: Lazerus1 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.

Title: DX 9.0 full version is out
Post by: SunKing on December 22, 2002, 12:29:45 AM

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

Title: DX 9.0 full version is out
Post by: maxtor 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.

Title: DX 9.0 full version is out
Post by: streakeagle 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.

Title: DX 9.0 full version is out
Post by: Tumor 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).