DirectX9 Final: installation issues/bugs/benchmarks/...
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Opening a little window for the VERY near DirectX9 final so that all Ati directx9 model owners can chat about 8)
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Dont be so hard on the ATI owners guys. I like the comments davenufc )
I had a 9700 and man that card is fast compared to everything out there at the moment. However as to the drivers they are a dam site better than they used to be. I personnally had no probs with me 9700 but i decided to sell it on rather hastely with the news of the GeforceFX. (Wish i hadnt as me geforce 4 TI4600 is dog shit compared to it!!) The IQ of the ATI is superior to the geforce line of video cards at present and i do hope Nvidia sort that out. But i can see a 3DFX situation here dare i say it, Nv have missed a whole generation of Video Cards and when the FX is released ATI will be putting out the 9900 pro?? I was always a 3dfx fan i hated Nvidia TNT, TNT2 etc but look what happened to them. Just think soon you may only have a choice of ATI and Matrox and i know which i prefer.And it aint the Matrox.
I had a 9700 and man that card is fast compared to everything out there at the moment. However as to the drivers they are a dam site better than they used to be. I personnally had no probs with me 9700 but i decided to sell it on rather hastely with the news of the GeforceFX. (Wish i hadnt as me geforce 4 TI4600 is dog shit compared to it!!) The IQ of the ATI is superior to the geforce line of video cards at present and i do hope Nvidia sort that out. But i can see a 3DFX situation here dare i say it, Nv have missed a whole generation of Video Cards and when the FX is released ATI will be putting out the 9900 pro?? I was always a 3dfx fan i hated Nvidia TNT, TNT2 etc but look what happened to them. Just think soon you may only have a choice of ATI and Matrox and i know which i prefer.And it aint the Matrox.
Hopefully DirectX9 will be shipped as a Christmas present |8) 8)
Microsoft has postponed the launch of DirectX 9 for a week. Officially the DirectX 9 would be introduced on Thursday 12th but its plans have been changed.
The new "final date" is 19th of December.
Source: The Inquirer
The new "final date" is 19th of December.
Source: The Inquirer
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This together with the new Futuremark 2003 & new Ati driver for Christmas perhaps, would be great!!! :wink:
This together with the new Futuremark 2003 & new Ati driver for Christmas perhaps, would be great!!! :wink:
I will be honest with you. I bought the 128mb ATI8500 when it first came out and I really have never had so many problems with any video card ever. Bad drivers, heat issues, you name it. I am going to switch back to Nvidia as soon as they release the NV30 and per Carmack the Doom3 engine will reach ultimate optimization on a NV30. So yes it runs on a 9700 but it will run better on a NV30. Doom3 (Id) and Quake 4 (Raven) share the same core engine. It is not Opengl, it is not glide (ah sweet, sweet glide lol), it is Directx. Is it 8 or 9 who cares? I'm sure it will use both and probably some of 7,6,5,4,3,2 and 1 also..
Curently I get like 4 FPS with my 8500 and a whole slew of graphical anomalies in the doom3 e3 demo, so either way i need a new card for these games and a new mobo and a new processor and a 6.1 sound card and... and...
Oh well, you boys have fun. I have some gold stars to earn in BF1942.
Curently I get like 4 FPS with my 8500 and a whole slew of graphical anomalies in the doom3 e3 demo, so either way i need a new card for these games and a new mobo and a new processor and a 6.1 sound card and... and...
Oh well, you boys have fun. I have some gold stars to earn in BF1942.
Ok guys!!! It's finally out, DirectX9 final!!! Hopefully drivers are following. See mainpage for downloadlinks...
Tested Directx 9 with new Ati 3.0 drivers. Everything seems to work perfectly, besides that, the screensavers from Ati are stuttering slightly??? Someone got this also??? What's the reason for this??? Thx :roll:
