There are many computer gamers who wonder whether they should switch to the newest PC game technology standard from Microsoft. The question is not without merit. As a matter of fact, according to grpahics card manufacturers (starting with AMD-ATI and nVidia) and Microsoft, DirectX 10 brings a lot of major improvements to video quality. But this is not coming alone: It creates the double need of upgrading to Windows Vista (DX10 only works with Vista – even if some hope to make it work with Windows XP) and of purchasing a very recent grpahics card (for example, nVidia 8800 or AMD-ATI HD 2900 XT). If you notice that video games tend to run slightly slower under Windows Vista than on an older OS and that all those purchases will brun a hole in your wallet, it is urgent to ask: Will it change my gaming experience?<\/p>\n
Thanks to Voodoo Extreme<\/a> (what a lovely name for a web site! \ud83d\ude42 ), it is now possible to compare the images of a real game (Crysis)<\/a> in both operating modes. And I can tell I’m not convinced at all. DirectX 9 does not look feeble to me. You can judge by yourself, but my opinion is made: DX10 or DX9 look the same, even with a PC game that was optimized to bring the best out of DirectX 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are many computer gamers who wonder whether they should switch to the newest PC game technology standard from Microsoft. The question is not without merit. As a matter of fact, according to grpahics card manufacturers (starting with AMD-ATI and nVidia) and Microsoft, DirectX 10 brings a lot of major improvements to video quality. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,54,28,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-graphics-display","category-games","category-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}