"RScotti" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> But It said DirectX 10 on the first page under version and this is a cheap
> V/C on a notebook. My new computer is going
> to have A GeForce 7950 GT that's the one I really care about.
> Are you saying that won't have DX version 10?
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:35:03 -0800, "Dustin Harper" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>If your video card is a GeForce 8800, then yes. Otherwise, no. So far, the
>>only video cards out that support DX10 are the 8800 series (8800 GTS &
>>GTX).
>>NVIDIA and ATI are set to release some new cards fairly soon, though.
>>
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>>Dustin Harper
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>>http://www.vistarip.com
>
> Have a good day,
> RScotti
>
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What he's saying is that VIDEO CARD won't fully support DX-10, however,
Windows Vista ships with DX-10.
You don't actually need a DX-10 compliant card to have DX-10 installed and
running, DX-10 simply won't have access to all the hardware features it's
capable of taking advantage of.
Simply put, it will basically downgrade itself to DX-9 feature set (well,
sort of, it's still DX10 and the DX-10 calls are all still there, but if you
have a DX-9 card it will only be able to use DX-9 features in hardware).
If you had an ATi 7000 card, for example (a DX-7 card) you will still have
DX-10 installed in Vista, but since that card doesn't support any features
that were added in DX-8, then 9, and so on, DX-10 can only call on DX-7
features in hardware that the card supports. (this is why Aero doesn't work
on these cards.)
When you check your Direct X version, however, it will report DX-10 is
installed and running just fine, because, well, it is. ;-)
Mic