the benefits of DX10.....

dejawolf

...according to microsoft:
http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/AboutGFW/Pages/DirectX10.aspx

scroll down, hehe.

thefatladysings

oh wow, I'm happy I got Dx10, else all my games would look like they were from 1998 :O

thefatladysings

Not to mention the realistic facial expressions of the floating heads

MoP

spot the slant competition

Joao Sapiro

Jesus, the scary is that there will be people who will fall into that. "OH WOW GREATER CHARACTER MODELS IS BECAUSE OF DIRECT X 10 AND NOT ART ! OH LOL ¬!!11"

marketing douches ahahah.

jec1183

That is marketing for you. Who cares if we use a game that came out before direct x 9. As long as we say it is using direct x 9 we are all good.

HonkyPunch

the handle-bar moustache and the glazed looking eyes all add to the realism.

This just in;
Handle-bar mustaches add to realism

Emil Mujanovic

They cannot be serious comparing Crysis with Halo: Combat Evolved in terms of how much better DX10 is to DX9.

-caseyjones

hawken

so the long and the short of it is, tashes are back in?

KeyserSoze

[ QUOTE ]
the handle-bar moustache and the glazed looking eyes all add to the realism.

This just in;
Handle-bar mustaches add to realism

[/ QUOTE ]

What the hell are you talking about? None of those dudes have a handle-bar mustache. One of the white guys has some lame looking stubble, but that's not even close to a handle-bar mustache. This is a handle-bar mustache.

indian_boy

THIS is a mustache:
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/nic/0033/0033.jpg

veerappan... indian gangster.. killed a few years back i believe...

but yea: LOL @ article

KeyserSoze

That is quite a 'stache, but I'm not sure it could qualify as a handle-bar mustache... it's not groomed enough.

ebagg

So why couldn't they compare Crysis with DX9 versus DX10? .....oh right, because they'd sell a lot less copies of vista.

indian_boy

@keyser... lol yea... tru tru... it WAS one... till the guy ran into hiding and shit lol... a 'stache to look up to lol....

@ebagg: lol

HonkyPunch

No, it says right on the page under the pictures that it adds to the quality of realism, srsly




DX9 OLD SHIT NESS


DX10 HOTNESS

dfacto

What the fuck, why am I learning all this 3d shit when I can just buy a new card and automatically kick ass?

Bah!

Geezus

[ QUOTE ]
DirectX®10 offers a wide variety of benefits to gamers. Let's dive into the details now:

[/ QUOTE ]

haha, awesome.

Asherr

DX10 is why I can't play any new games on my current video card.

leilei

here's a classic comparison animation

the "realistic water" is dx10, of course.

oXYnary

God forbid someone should mention/use OpenGL..




Opps!

ebagg

Mmmmmmm OpenGL...reminds me of the 3dfx/voodoo card glory days!

Ged

hahaaa! thats so rediculous! well at least the lies are so bad they are good for a laugh.

dejawolf

ogre3d is based off openGl, and seems to have some fairly spiffy graphical capabilities:

http://www.ogre3d.org/index.php?set_albu...=view_album.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsoQl5UOrm4

then there's the new megatexture ID TECH 5 engine, also running off opengl, and actually capable of running on a macintosh, and they seem to have most of the juicy stuff DirectX9 offers as well.
here's a pic:

CrazyButcher

there is virtually no difference between what OpenGL or Direct3D are capable of, remember its the same hardware, just the API is different... That said OpenGL currently allows ShaderModel4 features (such as in dx10) to run on any os as well (for nvidia at least).
Also ogre3D has an abstract renderer, meaning you can change between OpenGL and Direct3D. Most will probably prefer Direct3D because of better drivers.
Nearly all major engines will have such an abstracted renderer, it is the key to cross platform. IdTech5 also runs on x360, ie Direct3D.

Toomas

MS marketing gurus propably didnt even realize that their all fancy 360 is Dx9 machine

MikeF

your all wrong.


but on topic, yeah ogre is an extremely impressive engine when using only opengl (even though dx is supported), especially for being OS, just make sure your programmer doesn't bail on you 3/4 through production. dick.

ElysiumGX

crap like this is the reason i'll never switch to Vista. Microsoft's motto of business over innovation has caused enough frustration over the decades. Less lies and more useful apps plz.