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Ickalanda on 11 July 2008

Haha! Omg when I saw this I just thought it was hilarious!  Microsoft is attempting to heavily overexagerate the difference between DirectX10 and DirectX9 by using Crysis as the game for DirectX10 and instead of showing a Crysis to Crysis comparison they use Halo Combat Evolved which was simply a console port with no improved graphics for PC and from 2001 non-the-less.  I just found this really funny and thought you'd like to see too.  Just shows how cheap Microsoft is sometimes.

 

The comparison is at the bottom of the page, I find it funny how they try and make it sound like Halo has really good graphics or something:

 

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/AboutGFW/Pages/DirectX10-a.aspx



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akuma587 on 11 July 2008

Yeah, either this is old, or this isn't the first time they have done this. Score 1 for MS, or something.



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ssj12 on 11 July 2008

old, M$ showing they are dicks there

 

them calling Halo PC "state of the art DX9 material" is a complete joke.



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epsilon72 on 11 July 2008

Wow - the comparing Halo 1 to Crysis thing is absolutely hilarious (especially considering Crysis looks just like that in tweaked DX9 mode) - do these people actually take themselves seriously???



O-D-C on 11 July 2008

hahaha



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BottledSpringWater on 11 July 2008

Is DirectX 10 exclusive for Windows Vista?



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obieslut on 11 July 2008

they really am trying to cater for tech nerds who dont know about tech lol



FJ-Warez on 11 July 2008

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...



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Strategyking92 on 11 July 2008

uh, this has already been made fun of.
But to join in on the gang bang, yes, it is a joke.



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epsilon72 on 11 July 2008
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.