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Geek Culture / Im glad I didnt get a DX 10.0 CARD

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david w
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Posted: 15th May 2008 04:47
With the update out now DX 10.1 Seems like the DX 10 cards arent 100% compatable. I was reading over the latest changes and WOW. Seems to me like the early adopters got screwed.
Chenak
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Posted: 15th May 2008 05:10 Edited at: 15th May 2008 05:18
10.1 doesnt really offer anything that fantastic over 10.0... Its only a few functions that wont work, mainly shader 4.1 and a type of multisampling or something. I'm currently not bothering with dx10, apparently 11 is in development which nVidia is going to adopt (ignoring 10.1)

Or I may as well not buy a card ever and buy something else because everytime I buy a card, a new, cheaper more efficient card is released... arg!
draknir_
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Posted: 15th May 2008 12:31
thats murphy's law for ya
The Kurgan
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Posted: 15th May 2008 16:26
More like Moore's law.

Wikipedia:
Quote: " The number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years."


THUS, making more powerful electronics for cheaper.

There certainly is a touch of Murphy to the this all though, in it's comic ill timing.

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El Goorf
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Posted: 15th May 2008 18:39
good job i got me a dx10.1 card then; unlike that other thread suggests: HD3850 ftw

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Keo C
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Posted: 15th May 2008 19:29
I think the 3870 X2 has 1.3 billion transistors.


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Samoz83
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Posted: 15th May 2008 19:46
dx10.1 is no big improvement, and most have stated that they will just stick with dx10

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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 15th May 2008 22:07 Edited at: 15th May 2008 22:08
I got my Geforce 7950GT over a year ago and the price is still the same.

GatorHex
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Posted: 16th May 2008 03:39
Are there any DX10 only games out? I wouldn't worry about it most game makers are still supporting DX9. DX10.1 i heard just makes stuff manditory like 4xAA which most medium DX10 cards can do already.

If you get an ATI 3850 check the fan spins up they send out thousands of cards with a bug in the BIOS and they overheat until you fix it.

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SunnyKatt
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Posted: 16th May 2008 04:10
Halo 2 is vista only, dont know about dx10 only.

GatorHex
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Posted: 16th May 2008 04:24 Edited at: 16th May 2008 04:34
Yeah there is nothing stopping Halo 2 from running on XP it was just a blatent attempt to sell more Vista

How to do it is all over youtube i don't wana link coz they use dodgy pirate download sources.
Talk about developer shooting themselfs in the foot you either fork out $100s for Vista or get a hacked copy for free. Doh!

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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Posted: 16th May 2008 06:45
10.1 doesnt give anything new really imo. It has a few upgrades for developers or something but not much more i think. It has some new shader or some crap dont it?


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SunnyKatt
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Posted: 16th May 2008 12:59
I dont pirate, but I'll probably buy and get it working on xp from there.

Digital Awakening
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Posted: 16th May 2008 13:52
Murphy's law:
Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states that if anything can go wrong, it will. "If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way." It is most often cited as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" (or, alternately, "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way". The saying is sometimes referred to as Sod's law or Finagle's law.

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