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02-05-2008 at 02:05:53 PM

For DX 10, I need Vista and a DX 10 video card. Is a special motherboard also required?

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n°1779971
02-05-2008 at 03:12:37 PM

no. only vista n GPU. althought, DX10 is over rated as now.


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n°1779979
02-05-2008 at 03:48:53 PM

comrade wrote :

For DX 10, I need Vista and a DX 10 video card. Is a special motherboard also required?



You will only need vista, but I would recommend a pretty beefy system if you plan on runnin games in DX10. It currently does not provide very good performance results.

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n°1779983
02-05-2008 at 04:06:06 PM

3Ball wrote :

You will only need vista, but I would recommend a pretty beefy system if you plan on runnin games in DX10. It currently does not provide very good performance results.

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3Ball


Well said. Games will always (well, currently always) run slower in DX10 then DX9. Any nVidia 8xxx/9xxx series cards ore any ATi 2xxx/3xxx series is DX10 compatible.

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n°1779991
02-05-2008 at 04:28:42 PM

yep... also get 2gb ram, minimum, for good performance... DX10 is overrated. so is vista...

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n°1779992
02-05-2008 at 04:30:37 PM

I'm upgrading my system and wondereed if I needed a new motherboard. I've got an E6600 running in an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe board with 2 gog of DDR2-800 and an Nvidia 7900GTX OC. I've already got Vista Home Premiium in a dual boot sestup with XP Pro.

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n°1779997
02-05-2008 at 04:36:30 PM

Just upgrade the video card and your system will be DX10 ready.

I say ready because games are still to come.

Some claim to be DX10, but they are more DX9 with a few DX10 features.

AFAIK, no game has been developed completely with DX10.


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n°1780013
02-05-2008 at 05:26:06 PM

1) Vista
2) Any nVidia 8xxx/9xxx series cards ore any ATi 2xxx/3xxx series is DX10 compatible

You need both #1 & #2


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