So what happens to my 1950x Pro when DX10 arrives?

So what happens to my 1950x Pro when DX10 arrives?

will it benefit from any of the new features, will there be a new catalyst to make it compatable with some feartures,

will it be able to play crysis and look good?

or will it become a obsilite old card

The card will work fine with all new games for a while, but it will not be able to take advantage of the benefits of DX10, which are reportedly going improve gaming tremendously (we'll see soon).

If I have read correctly, all games, for now, are backwards compatible with DX9. Your card can play the games, but you will be limited to what features DX9 have.

So, in short, you card will work, but will not work as well as the games written with DX10 could work.

Well, games won't utilize DX10 right away, so the X1950Pro will still be good for a year.

Should run Crysis fine, probably not maxed out though.

and what about my 7900GS, (see sig.) so how will this card stand up to crysis?

will it look as good or anywhere near as good as in the screenshots or the videos of the gameplay?

awwwww, my tft 20.1" @ 1680*1050 wont be abke to play it then with my 7900GS?, i take it later this yeer in about march the 8800GTS will come down in price giving me the excuse to buy one and play crysis at max?

i take it the 8800GTS/GTX will be able to play the game maxed out?
and what about my 7900GS (oced to a GT), how will it performe @ 1680*1050? very poorly? what do u think medium-max? low-medium?
and how much do u think the 8-series gpus will have droped in price?

Thanks

plenty of games support dual, but I think this may be the first quad due to the physics as I said, which is why I'm doubting on the 7900gs for good detail

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Crysis or Halo3?

I think that they are a close match, and we will really have to wait until crysis is released to find out (halo 3 is coming out in Feb or March I believe, though it was supposed to come out right when the ps 3 did to piss off sony )

theres a cheaper version of the gts coming out in February. Same as the old one basically, only half the memory, and $100 cheaper.

New GTS

As for how crysis will run on your card, there will be 2 separate versions. 1 for dx9 and 1 for dx10. I'd imagine your card will run at or near max for that resolution with decent fps on dx9.

Even maxed out, it wont look nearly as good as the dx10 version though, since itll be able to do effects and lighting that your card cant duplicate.

does this size of memory make a big-massive differnece? in games, 640 down to 320??? and that $300 is more my price range then 400/450+....

and how do u think it will performe with dx9 and dx10 games?

Can you give me a link to show an OCed 1950XT or XTX vs. the 8800GTS?

Also: I do not like open-box AND OEM cards.
Also, I see newegg has a deal for 8800GTS for around $376.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] pr1c3watch

Stick with the xt, its fine, and as I said, it will hold over for a better dx10 upgrade than the gts

I will look for some links

Halo 3, mate. Halo beats Crysis any day. Crysis only wins if you give if a flamethrower and has been taking stereroids for years, and Halo 3 is locked in a cage without guns or knifes.
-cm

So what happens to my 1950x Pro when DX10 arrives?

Not much because mostly likely 0 games will be out with the arrival that take advantage of DX10. They will arrive this year though.

will it benefit from any of the new features, will there be a new catalyst to make it compatable with some feartures?

It will benefit from none of the DX10 only features. It cannot be made "forward" compatible with a mere driver update, no.

will it be able to play crysis and look good?

It should be able to play Crysis and look pretty darn good at reasonable resolution and settings for your system.

or will it become a obsilite old card?

It won't become obsolete just because DX10 comes out. There will be few games in the near future that use much of DX10s new features and probably no game in the next 1-2 yrs at least that will require a DX10 capable card to run the game at all. You're fine with what you have for the time being. It will simply run off the DX9 code. When Required DX10 games come down the pipe you will have had a lot of time to save for that DX10 card upgrade.

Enjoy what you have, its a great card. Its not the BEST but far from the WORST there is to have right now.