DirectX 10.1 Incompatible with DirectX 10 cards?

Nergen-Ak1-Defender · Post by **Nergen-Ak1-Defender** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:36 pm

I have heard all over the internet that the DirectX 10.1 upcoming update Incompatible with DirectX 10 cards. Maybe. Maybe Not. Although i have seen an article on softpedia regarding this issue.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsof ... 2863.shtml

There is also a discussion on this here.
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/in ... 6100&st=40

What do you think?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:55 pm

Don't include polls in discussion threads just because the option for them is there.

I would assume DX10.1 will require new hardware to expose all the functionality, but will still work on older \"DX10.0\" cards, in the same way DX9.x can be installed on a system with hardware that doesn't support all the extensions, or even on DX8 hardware.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:42 am

DirectX 11 will require new hardware. I wouldn't bust a gut over that tho, too far off. As long the current gen of game consoles is only DX 9 compatible there won't be be any true DX 10 games around anyway.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:48 am

Not to mention that 10.1 isn't even an upgrade from 10.