Video Card support

Video Card support

• VFUSER

  Well I can't be 100% sure, you will need someone from MS for that but every presentation I have seen says "you will need new hardware" and as Jack said nobody has any of this new hardware yet so I doubt the "new hardware" is generally on sale.
  
  

• Leandro M Lopes

  Just to add to what ZMan said...
  
  I would imagine that the D3D10 hardware won't be making an appearance until one of the major trade shows (e.g. SIGGRAPH, GDC, E3..). Even then I'd imagine it to be in fairly closed circles - few people have the ability to do much with them yet :-)
  
  Whilst we were out in Seattle a couple of us MVP's did ask the DX team if we could have some D3D10 hardware, and they just laughed and said there was a long waiting list for whenever they appeared
  
  Cheers,
  Jack
  
  
  

• chuckmed

  None that you can buy today - Direct3D 10 (there is no such thing as DirectX 10) requires new hardware.

  However you can bet that the big card companies will have offerings and they will probably be announced closer to the vista lauch. I suspect they are currently being tested in places but I know at the PDC the DirectX team said tht all their demos were created using the reference rasterizer so I guess even MS didn't have hardware back then.

  
  
  

• XZminX

  So are you saying that nVidia won't be releasing directx 10 drivers for my flash new (expensive) 7800GTX card in the future

  
  Yes, most definitely. You will not be running Direct3D 10 on that hardware!
  
  D3D10 requires a minimum feature set to be compliant. This "minimum" is currently higher than anything available on the market.
  
  hth
  Jack
  
  
  

• Darwin Wright

  So are you saying that nVidia won't be releasing directx 10 drivers for my flash new (expensive) 7800GTX card in the future
  
  
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