When should we see AGP DirectX10 cards, for those of us still stuck with AGP? (I have a decent setup, AMD 64 dual processor with 3GB RAM and lotsa SATA disk, but have AGP.)
I really don't need DX10, no hard core gamers, but I upgraded my 3 home machines and desktop work machine to Vista about 6-8 weeks after it came out. Not a great choice, I have 3 Nvidia and 1 ATI graphics cards (all probably 2-3 year old vintage) and all of them are still not stable with Vista. So if I can get a reasonably priced AGP DX10 card, I will probably bite the bullet soon.
This of course is assuming that the DX10 card will have stable Vista drivers. Is this a bad assumption?
I am really ticketd at NVidia, they are not going to release a Vista driver past the one last October or so (for my GeForce 5700 that I just bought new last year, though it probably was released 1-2 years ago). All of my machine spontaneously reboot most nights when not in use, and I have to assume its the graphics driver since they are the most likely culprit in general, and especially since its well known that video drivers for DX10 are not very good yet.
I upgraded about 3-4 months too soon. Oh, well, live and learn. I did it in part because I can manage logins better, have a single home director for users no matter what machine they are on in my house, and other things (plus security). But it turns out that after I got it and read more, you seem to need a domain setup (rather than just a workgroup) for these features like roaming profiles, and I don't want to go through the hassle of this and dedicate a machine to it.
I really don't need DX10, no hard core gamers, but I upgraded my 3 home machines and desktop work machine to Vista about 6-8 weeks after it came out. Not a great choice, I have 3 Nvidia and 1 ATI graphics cards (all probably 2-3 year old vintage) and all of them are still not stable with Vista. So if I can get a reasonably priced AGP DX10 card, I will probably bite the bullet soon.
This of course is assuming that the DX10 card will have stable Vista drivers. Is this a bad assumption?
I am really ticketd at NVidia, they are not going to release a Vista driver past the one last October or so (for my GeForce 5700 that I just bought new last year, though it probably was released 1-2 years ago). All of my machine spontaneously reboot most nights when not in use, and I have to assume its the graphics driver since they are the most likely culprit in general, and especially since its well known that video drivers for DX10 are not very good yet.
I upgraded about 3-4 months too soon. Oh, well, live and learn. I did it in part because I can manage logins better, have a single home director for users no matter what machine they are on in my house, and other things (plus security). But it turns out that after I got it and read more, you seem to need a domain setup (rather than just a workgroup) for these features like roaming profiles, and I don't want to go through the hassle of this and dedicate a machine to it.