DX 9.0L refurbished dari DX 10?????

[VERRY]

WE MANAGED TO glean a few facts about the upcoming DirectX 9.0 L we told you about here.

DirectX 9.0 L is simply a renamed and refurbished DirectX 10 for Windows XP. It will make DirectX 10 games to work on Windows XP.

And games such as the upcoming Crysis won't work on the existing DirectX 9.0 c. they need a DirectX 9.0 L

One of the biggest issues is the fact that Nvidia or ATI won't have any mainstream or entry-level cards until at least mid- to end of Q1 2007. This suggests that if Vista tips up around the beginning of the year, gamers will be turned off by it.

Electronic Arts, the publisher of Crysis, wants to sell hundreds or thousands, even millions of copies and we doubt that Nvidia can produce and sell that many Geforce 8800 GTX and GTS cards.

It will be interesting to see whether the Windows XP Crysis will be different from the Vista ones. µ








WE ALREADY reported here that Microsoft plans to introduce a new DirectX 9.0 version. This time we managed to get the name and the company plans to call it DirectX 9.0L.

You will remember that Nvidia was pressing Microsoft to call its last revision of DirectX, DirectX 9.1 but Vole decided to simply add a letter C to its existing DirectX 9.0 name. This currently available DirectX 9.0c features support for Shader model 3.0 and Nvidia though that upgrade from Shader model 2.0 would deserve at least 9.1 prefix.

Now the Vole plans to do the same thing. It will call its next generation DirectX featuring Shader model 4.0, DirectX 9.0L.

We don't know when the company plans to make this new marchitecture available but we expect that this will happen sometimes trough 2006. It's still too early to shift to Shader Model 4.0 as Nvidia and ATI won't have Shader model 4.0 hardware until middle of 2006.

It's interesting that ATI has to upgrade to Shader model 3.0 in a few weeks time and Shader Model 4.0 within a year from R520 aka Radeon X1800 RV530 aka Radeon X1600 and RV515 aka Radeon X1300. µ

[becco]

ini maksudnya MS ngeluarin DX9L buat WinXP kan?
buat main game Vista DX10

edit:

DX9.0L is a special version of DirectX 9 for Vista only that allows DX9 games to run with Vista's new driver model. It's not possible to run D3D10 on XP without running in pure software emulation.

The D3D10 API was designed around the new driver model in Vista. In addition, Aero Glass runs on DX9.0L. Aero Glass is one of the main reasons DX9.0L exists on Vista.

Our sources also confirmed that L in DirectX 9.0 L stands for Longhorn. So we are back at the beginning - you need to buy a new graphic card and a new OS to have the hardware DirectX 10 acceleration on an API that supports it

DX9.0L adalah versi DX9 untuk Vista only
supaya game2 XP DX9 berjalan lebih kencang di Vista
jadi main game DX10 di XP, itu = tidak memungkinkan

gimana sih ya?

[ArYA]

DirectX 9.0 L is simply a renamed and refurbished DirectX 10 for Windows XP. It will make DirectX 10 games to work on Windows XP.

lha, ini berarti game2 DX10 bisa dimainin di XP kan yah

[VERRY]

yup arya betul

[ArYA]

berarti dengan adanya DX9.0L ini pengguna XP ngga perlu buru2 pindah kevista kan? nah, berarti makin jarang dunk yang pake vista?
hmm, kok sepertinya merugikan bisnis Mikocok yah

[VERRY]

nah itu diah gw juga gak ngarti, mungkin dirasakan vista gak laku kali

[orangpelupa]

satu lagi alasan ku ngga mau ke vista, xp aj ud bisa

[becco]

@Arya, Verry
read my post at post #2

need feedback? what d u think?