Why do you need DX10? Have you seen the difference between the two? There isn't that much of a difference if any in image quality.

DirectX 10 is one of the biggest hoax in the gaming world.We've been hearing it for about 2 years now and there is no real difference between dx9 and dx10.DX10.1 will be the real dx10(i hope),even in Crysis you can make the Very High settings(officially only available in Vista and dx10 cards)work using a little trick.So yeah there is no real dx10,it's just bullshit.

Hey maybe he wants a tiny increase in image quality at the expense of a huge drop in performance 😉

F2bnp wrote:

DirectX 10 is one of the biggest hoax in the gaming world.We've been hearing it for about 2 years now and there is no real difference between dx9 and dx10.DX10.1 will be the real dx10(i hope),even in Crysis you can make the Very High settings(officially only available in Vista and dx10 cards)work using a little trick.So yeah there is no real dx10,it's just bullshit.

Am I the only one who thinks that the actual purpose of DirectX 10 is to kill backward compatibility, thus forcing gamers to move to Vista?

Or am I just stating the obvious?

nope

nope to the first question, that is 😀

You're certainly not

I think, theoretically, if enough of us bug them long enough, MS will make a DirectX that's fully backwards compatible. I know it might be hard, but then they're the only ones who can do it because they have all the source.
or is it almost all?
and anyway, it would have been a lot easier if they had been doing that along the way, so to speak; this didn't just happen, there was actually a plan
anyway, someone will definitely come up with a way to do it, but it might take a few months or even a year or two, or three if you want it to be reliable (DOSBox has been it development for, what, 8 years now?), and doing the math
the longest time between versions of Windows is XP --> Vista; 5 years
Vista is a year to a year and a half old (public, business, manufacturers)
3 years + 1 year = 4 years old
5 - 4 = 1
one good year, and that's it, maximum, before they spring a new Windows on you, or at least a new DirectX
the way I see it, unless you pick a specific platform (or platforms) and stick with it (or them) for more than 5 years, compatability is an uphill battle... against space marines... with magic missiles

DOSBox has been it development for, what, 8 years now?

Yeah and Harekiet did in a few years what microsoft's thousands of
programmers didn't/couldn't within 13 years ('95-2008).

I'm curious: Harakiet is the one that started to code DOSBox, right? Is he still active?

Don't know how active he is at the moment (HE'S A LAZY ASS, READ THAT).
<- that might get him post something *g*

yeah.

Qbix wrote:

yeah.

Yeah to what? Him being alive, or him being a lazy ass? 😉

Qbix wrote:

yeah.

I can't believe how someone with such a cute avatar can be so untalkative these days...
(just wanted to comment on the avatar, seems it hasn't been commented on in the last few weeks 😀)

Hmmm...

Bouncing breasts = good communication skills

which would mean

The bouncier the breasts, the higher the communications skills?

Can't quite follow that logic (unless we're talking about real women, of course) (;

I'm male, looking at bouncing breasts and you speak of logic? 😀
(in that regard anyone ever notice how women bounce up and down when they want something? I don't wonder why they do this anymore... 😀)

I really don't have anything to say here, so here's the link:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/itdepartment/5b7e/zoom/

So how many bouncing breasts does it take to make DirectX10 working on XP?

how ever many there are on the employees of MS, including man-boobs 😒