LOL! Microsofts DirectX10-DirectX9 Comparison

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epsilon72 said:

FJ-Warez said:
Yes is old, yes is bad, but still DX10 offers a better lighting, texturing, and smoke, so far thats the only thing I can say about it... probably we will see a performance improvemente too, but Vista suck a lot...

The thing is, those effects are most likely doable in DX9 as well.  DX10 only brings 3D acceleration to the windows desktop (aero) - it doesn't really affect games at all, other than making them twice as hard to run.

 

completely wrong.

firstly, DX10 has nothing to do with Aero, you can use Aero with DX9 cards

secondly, DX10 is an upgrade like any other direct X upgrade, with new features and performance improvements across ALL uses of 3d accelleration, there is no difference between accellerating the desktop (which has been done for a long time before Aero) and games, making animated movies (although OpenGL is generally used here) etc