What DirectX 10 Will Look Like At First

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What DirectX 10 Will Look Like At First

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Wondering what DirectX 10 means to you as a gamer and what kind of difference you can expect to see in the first few titles? We take glance at one of the first DirectX 10 titles that will hit the market, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures! Age of Conan is the first MMO to be released with DirectX 10 technology, which is significant for those that want to use their DXirectX 10 graphics cards for the first time. Read on to compare DX9 and DX10 screen shots from Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures!

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Nice article! I like the mouseover effect to switch between DX9 and DX10 screenshots!

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Great article! The rollover images really showed off the DX10/9 difference.
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Great simple article and the changing image on mouse over was nice. I hate having to click all the time ;)
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short and simple yet very informative, great job Brian
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That was a good, quick article to show off some differences. I'm still holding out hope for DX10 to somehow work in XP. I've been looking forward to Conan for a while now, but I don't want Vista... :drinkers:

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Post by Alathald »

Wow, just WOW (not WoW :P )!!! Looks amazing, though it took me a minute to realize I had to roll over the pics :lol: . Hope they get everything straighted out in Vista soon so I can take full advantage of my 8800!
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WOW - maybe even though the new 8 series cards are only up to the 7 series benchmarks, they might be worth the money just for that!

I would wait till it is released though, since maybe they will include a REAL dx10 game for free then ;)

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KnightRid wrote:WOW - maybe even though the new 8 series cards are only up to the 7 series benchmarks, they might be worth the money just for that!

I would wait till it is released though, since maybe they will include a REAL dx10 game for free then ;)

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The difference between DX9/10 seems pretty impressive :lol: The forest in the last screenshot is awesome.
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I am impressed!
So basically in any other cards it will be rendered by the CPU ?
or not visible at all?
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Well this is the game that I'm installing Vista for and buying a DX10 card for... :) I won't really "upgrade" both my systems. But I'm the the process of building a whole new system. I may sell most of the parts out of one system to bankroll the graphics card purchase. :|

The parts that are scheduled to arrive tomorrow are the CPU, motherboard, and RAM. Then in a couple more weeks I'll buy either some R600 variant, or an 8800GTX. I've already signed up for AoC beta. :P
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Uggg!! this just kills my post about the 8600!!

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