The advantage of this is not only speed over Series 8 but that Series 9 supports Direct X 10.1 whereas Series 8 doesn't.
This is food for though for anyone getting a new video card soon.
You are partially wrong on this one mmarsh
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Over the weekend, rumors started to emerge saying that the current crop of DirectX 10 hardware would become obsolete once DirectX 10.1 arrived. Microsoft, however, has now denied such statements:
According to Microsoft’s Sam Glassenberg, DirectX 10.1 will be fully compatible with all graphics cards supporting DirectX 10.
He told that the current updates are very similar to those performed for DirectX 9 back in the days.
All the company wants to do now is to increase the API life cycle. […]
However, Sam confirmed that existing graphics cards may still not be able to use all the new features of DirectX 10.1.
New features include incremental improvements to rendering quality such as 32-bit floating-point operations (instead of 16-bit ones, used today by default) and obligatory support of 4x FSAA. Gamers who have already purchased contemporary DirectX 10 graphics cards shouldn’t be too upset, though, as DirectX 10.1 supposedly isn't shipping until Vista SP 1 does.
Furthermore, Glassenberg stressed that applications designed specifically for DirectX 10.1 are very unlikely to appear anytime soon, because overall, “the updates aren’t that critical”.
Now I'm just playing Diablo II. I don't have the money to play an online game. I would have to settle for an offline game. My favorite characters in Diablo are the Assassin, Barbarian, Amazon, and Necromancer.
We must have had the same XMAS list. I also got the Witcher (from myself). I haven't played yet, I am still finishing the Neverwinter Nights Expansion and the last mission of Company of Heroes.
Venom
Actually I am not wrong all Series 8 cards are COMPATIBLE with DX10.1 but they do not support it (you don't get the extra goodies, but the game will run). However Nvidia has said that the Difference between DX10 and 10.1 is almost insignificant.
We must have had the same XMAS list. I also got the Witcher (from myself). I haven't played yet,
I think it's quite good and it's got a good and mature storyline and gameplay.
But it can almost get a bit too "mature" sometime, with the F word in almost every second sentence in some dialogs in (what seems to be) "desperate" attempts to make it "cool".....
But except from that it's good..
) for X-mas...
King Rides again!
