THE DX8 DX9 AND DX 10 Video card thread, what works ??!!!

[emenance]

Come on, its getting messy out there, Chistmas is coming and Im needing an upgrade. Can we consolidate what works here?

 

What isnt going to work anymore with a DX10 card?

 

thanks and rock on!

[Fjordmonkey]

A DX10-capable card will still render DX7/8/9-graphics just fine. They're backwards-compatible.

[emenance]

In theory yes in real life no and some games will not work.

 

Im looking for real life Lock on experience too with the new DX10 cards. Anyone care to lay down the low down on them?

[PoleCat]

I am using a 8800GTS 640MB with lockon. Self shadowing issues but all else seems fine and performance is good 8x-8x with a fast proc. LockOn is CPU intensive that is where you will see large differences, not so much with the video card as long as relatively new and decent. A DX10 card is the only way to go. You will gain no advantage that I know of by sticking with a DX9 card for lockon unless you are using stereo glasses. Good luck!

 

Out

[3Sqn_Fudd]

I haven't heard that some DX-10 or Dx-10.1 or whatever will not work with older Dx9 or Dx8 games... and that would be huge news

 

Ditto to what Polecat said

[Mustang]

One small question here: Does Sapphire Radeon X1650Pro or Galaxy GF 7600GST work better with Lock On 1.02?

 

Well, i've recently got ahold of a Sapphire X1950Pro pretty cheap, it works marvellously with 1.12a, i would aim for a card of that specification, not a lower-end card like the X1650Pro since its lacking in memory bandwidth and pixel pipelines, all very important.

[S77th-konkussion]

I'm using a pair of 512MB Diamond Radeon HD 2900XT's in CrossFire, and you might say it kicks all KINDS of ass in LOMAC.

[Ramstein]

Radeon 2600 or 2900 look mighty tasty... I picked up an HIS Radeon X1950 pro a few months back, had the 2600 been out then I might have purchaqsed that instead... or even the 2900 at a good sale... so I would look at those,,, look at the review at:

 

http://www.guru3d.com/

 

:thumbup:

[Fjordmonkey]

I currently run with an r1950Pro, but I'm looking at either the Twin-chip r2600X2 that's coming from GeCube and Sapphire, or going all-out with an HD2900XT. The last option depends on the twin-R2600XT's cost vs Performance, though. The rumors on the street says that Sapphire's Gemini HD2600X2 Dual-GPU card will retail about $259 for the 512mb-version, and $279 for the 1024mb-version, which isn't TOO bad. Especially not if the speed is up to spec. And since both the GeCube and the Sapphire HD2600X2's are Crossfire-enabled, it would be quite fun to see how two Dual-GPU cards perform in such a config. Going to await some benchmarks and reviews before I make my choice, though. Which also helps on the rather hefty pricetag of the HD2900XT since it retails for about $450 here in Norway.

 

Personally I'd not take the step up to DX10.1-hardware before there were actually games that supported it. Anything else is to toss money out the window, and ESPECIALLY if DX10.1-cards aren't backwards-compatible. I have, though, no reason to believe that they aren't, as both ATI/AMD and nVidia knows that people do play older games on newer hardware.