Subj : DirectX 9.0c software versus Video HARDWARE DIRECTX 9 or 10+? To : All From : greegor47@gmail.com Date : Fri Jan 04 2019 12:53 am X-Received: by 10.66.80.41 with SMTP id o9mr7611378pax.4.1357278819655; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:53:39 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.49.116.135 with SMTP id jw7mr8693102qeb.10.1357278819249; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:53:39 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!fee der.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!f6no8917461pbd.1!news-out.google.com!s 9ni79141pbb.0!nntp.google.com!b8no2031281pbd.0!postnews.google.com!d10g2000yqe. googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.windows-xp,alt.os.windows-xp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment,mi crosoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 21:53:39 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d10g2000yqe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=199.189.229.221; posting-account=5SXNEQkAAAC6SFadCHPE9O-jLMHq7h-Y NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.189.229.221 References: <5a5d2214-342b-4c2c-a655-ea2e21bbb34c@qi8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C),gzip(gfe) Message-ID: Subject: DirectX 9.0c software versus Video HARDWARE DIRECTX 9 or 10+? From: Greegor Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:53:39 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: mx04.eternal-september.org alt.windows-xp:4032 alt.os.windows-xp:5437 microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment:2477 microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:30925 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:106312 OK, I'm firmly convinced that for Win XP, DirectX 9.0c is the latest installable DirectX module. But I got a casual (easy) game collection CD for the holidays that is for Windows XP, but requires DIRECTX 9.0 in the video card and didn't like the 9.0c SW module. I also looked into video cards to possibly upgrade enough to run W7 or W8 fairly well and noticed that various video cards have DIRECTX 10 or ? in them. Apparently this opens the door to having Direct X 10 or 11 on a Windows XP computer. Why would DIRECTX 9.0 in a vid card work better than the DirectX 9.0c software module for a game? Is there a lot of other software that runs on WinXP but can even use DIRECTX 10 (in video hardware)? It's not like these are slow computers where software DirectX runs slow or anything... Is hardware DIRECTX 10 or 11 fairly common for on board video in newer mother boards? --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .