Inside CNET Labs: Lamenting DirectX 10
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| We compared the same title side by side on a system running DX10 on Vista to
| the same title on an identical system running DX9 on XP, and it's
| difficult--sometimes impossible--to detect significant differences in how the
| games look or perform.
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http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9750536-1.html
1. Promise the world
2. Produce images that artificially accentuate differences between DX9 and DX10
3. Send shills to CG forums to shout out "Wow"
4. [...]
5. Profit!
Well, no profit yet because people do not buy Vista (it gets shoved, then
wiped). Their friends smelt it and it stinks.
Articles like this helps debunk the marketing hype and reveal the deception,
which is everywhere. ReadyBoost is another failed 'feature' and there are many
more.
Related:
Adding DX10 has "done nothing"
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| Having tested the DX10 rendering path against the DX9 version, the chaps at
| the fantastically named Elite Bastards say that they can't "Help but feel a
| little disappointed to see yet another game where the inclusion of DirectX 10
| functionality has done nothing for the title either graphically or from
| performance standpoint".
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41043
Valve survey shows hundreds of thousands steamed up
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| However, the survey also shows how far Microsoft et al have to go
| - currently, DX10-capable gamers (ie those with Vista and a DX10 card)
| make up 1.21% of the gaming population.
| ^^^^^
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40049
DAAMIT! AMD's DX10 is not up to scratch
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| The gap isn't much, but there's a good 10-15 per cent difference between
| the two cards, and this is rather disappointing for a card that has
| been repeatedly marketed as future proof.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40048
OpenGL 2.x and 3.0 APIs arrive this year
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| Approximately three months after that, Mount Evans (OpenGL 3.0) will
| run specifically on hardware born after November 8th, 2006. You've
| guessed it correctly, we are talking about DirectX 10-class hardware,
| bringing all the features of unified 3D architecture to the world of
| OpenGL. Mount Evans is compatible with Longs Peak, but of course -
| you will require OpenGL 3.0 class hardware to run everything.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39846
OpenGL is far from dead
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| Khronos took over the running of the OpenGL Architecture Review
| Board last Autumn and has managed to get chip-makers like Nvidia
| to open up DX10-esque hardware features in the OpenGL system.
| "The extension mechanism has also allowed manufacturers of high
| end cards to gracefully expose DirectX 10 features on Windows
| XP," Splash said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39830
Vista-only game cracked
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| Falling Leaf Studios had previously reported that they were working
| on the 'Alky Project' that would contribute 'Alky Compatibility
| Libraries' to allow the successful running of Halo 2 and Shadowrun
| on Windows XP machines.
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| Looks like it was a lot simpler than that.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40538
Hacked DX10 for Windows appears
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| A chap called Cody Brocious from San Diego, California, claims to
| have started to create an wrapper for Windows executables so that
| they can be ran on another operating system, with no prejudice
| about that operating system.
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| A year in, the Alky Project has gone live under the cover of a
| company Falling Leaf Systems. Members of its Sapling Program will
| be able to get the wrappers for DirectX10 applications and run
| them not just on DX10 hardware under Windows XP, but with some
| DX9 hardware as well.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39095
Valve questions Microsoft's commitment to PC gaming
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| Half-Life 2 developer Valve thinks that Microsoft's current
| "Games for Windows" marketing push is a cynical ploy to sell
| more copies of Windows Vista, rather than a genuine effort to
| invigorate the PC gaming market.
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http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/03/12/valve_questions_microsofts_commitment/
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