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Here's the thing, it's been a year now, or very close to, since DX9 was out. Far more than when DX8 was released with the geForce 3 and a good amount of games came in the end of the year.
Assuming DX9 really is hard to code and companies are looking to really go far, my guess is, DX9 games will make even current cards suffer.
While some will disagree, all signs point to it. First GF3s gave out around 30FPS in the Nature test, and any full DX8 game like Aquanox (much respect to the graphics optimizations), made them run at 30-50FPS tops.
Assume DX9 is more rough. The Gunmetal bench seems to literally eat the FX5900 Ultra.
While the game doesn't really use that much DX9, the bench does. One has to wonder, how good is that.
While some will have me refer to Doom III, it is important to realize Doom III is not a full DX9 game. Never was. Sure it has some features, but there will be many games out afterwards that truly use DX9 for what it is. It might be a reason why D3 runs fairly well on current high-end cards.
However, I guess what I am trying to say is, after a year of no DX9 yet, I think the compliance of current cards is just a novelty, much like DX9 on FX5200s. Methinks anything below 9700PRO using DX9 is likely to have a real hard time. And even then, the R9700PRO will be like a Ti200 in Aquanox, barely playing it at max.
The recent annoucement of Doom III being delayed is good news. It also lets us know to WAIT even more before we get hardware we want that has good DX9 performance.
I think I'll buy my new card at Xmas, and it'll likely be the new generation instead.
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Assuming DX9 really is hard to code and companies are looking to really go far, my guess is, DX9 games will make even current cards suffer.
While some will disagree, all signs point to it. First GF3s gave out around 30FPS in the Nature test, and any full DX8 game like Aquanox (much respect to the graphics optimizations), made them run at 30-50FPS tops.
Assume DX9 is more rough. The Gunmetal bench seems to literally eat the FX5900 Ultra.
While the game doesn't really use that much DX9, the bench does. One has to wonder, how good is that.
While some will have me refer to Doom III, it is important to realize Doom III is not a full DX9 game. Never was. Sure it has some features, but there will be many games out afterwards that truly use DX9 for what it is. It might be a reason why D3 runs fairly well on current high-end cards.
However, I guess what I am trying to say is, after a year of no DX9 yet, I think the compliance of current cards is just a novelty, much like DX9 on FX5200s. Methinks anything below 9700PRO using DX9 is likely to have a real hard time. And even then, the R9700PRO will be like a Ti200 in Aquanox, barely playing it at max.
The recent annoucement of Doom III being delayed is good news. It also lets us know to WAIT even more before we get hardware we want that has good DX9 performance.
I think I'll buy my new card at Xmas, and it'll likely be the new generation instead.
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) that they will likely run poorley right out of the box on 'lesser cards (I think unfortunately you may be right there and even my R9600P OC'd to the max may have some trouble with some of the features being on). Didn't Q3 kill cards at first when everything was on? I just hope the length of time to release of DX9 games doesn't mean a delay in DX10 standards being adopted as well. I hate delays! I'd rather know now that something sux than have people buy in anticipation fo something (their fault really) and then get skunked. I feel good, it's got what I want, but I think some peope are bound to be surprsed (especially that Fliphone nOOb with his FX5200!)
) and let me say if the game had all the features of the benchmark and ran at the same settings, itd be playable at 1024x768 no AA no aniso.
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