OH NO! DX10 cards wont be able to use DX10.1

**cheesepuff** · #1 17th Nov 2007, 18:16

they will be able to play DX10.1 games, but you will need to buy a DX10.1 card in order to use DX10.1 so in other words, DX10.1 is backwards compatible with DX10, but D10 cards cant use DX10.1 !!!!!!!!!!!!

**Insomnia** · #2 17th Nov 2007, 19:20

DX10 may look good, but it seems to have turned out as a bit of a failure. Such a shame *shakes head sadly*

**cheesepuff** · #3 17th Nov 2007, 21:38

just another way microsoft screws us over...

**Thunderer** · #4 18th Nov 2007, 01:25

So, with a DX10, one cannot update the driver to DX10.1, what a shame!!!!

About the DX10.1, would there than be another DX like DX11 or one would have to wait??

**Krlll** · #5 18th Nov 2007, 08:29

This is kind of old news.
Who really cares anyway?
They cant even get hardware/software working well with DX10.

Im getting tired of this BS.
Vista is crap.
DX10 enhanced games are few and far between and the ones available run like crap.
Now they think people are gonna buy more new hardware just because of a very minor update to DirectX

ATi/AMD are ready to snap up a few suckers because of this nonsense though.
Will you be jumping on the bandwagon?
I wont.

Quote:

But these gamers shouldn't fret too much - 10.1 adds virtually nothing that they will care about and, more to the point, adds almost nothing that developers are likely to care about. The spec revision basically makes a number of things that are optional in DX10 compulsory under the new standard - such as 32-bit floating point filtering, as opposed to the 16-bit current. 4xAA is a compulsory standard to support in 10.1, whereas graphics vendors can pick and choose their anti-aliasing support currently.

Rest Here.

**cheesepuff** · #6 18th Nov 2007, 10:43

http://images.tomshardware.com/2007/...i-demo10-7.jpg

makes me wonder ^^^^^^^