Jorge MC Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 any body using DirectX9, :confused: is it safe to use with CMBB?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 I'm not personally using it myself, but several other people are without problem. There's no real reason to upgrade to this right now. I'm not aware of any games that are utilizing calls that are unique to it and most drivers don't support all of its features either. There'll be no speed or feature benefit to upgrading to DirectX 9.0 right now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morten Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 I use it - no problems what so ever. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bauhaus Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 Originally posted by Jorge MC: any body using DirectX9, :confused: is it safe to use with CMBB??I'm using dx9 with ATI's catalyst 3.0 drivers and no problems what-so-ever. I don't see any reason to upgrade unless you have a 9700 pro card. If you don't stick with 8.1. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaws Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 I'm using it on a Gforce 4 TI 4600 and no problems. Some time you have to switch to DX 9.0 and my opinion is the sooner the better. [ January 20, 2003, 03:07 PM: Message edited by: Jaws ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartokomus Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 I'm of the exact opposite opinion; never leave something stable for something that may have no tangible benefits. MS is notorious for releasing uncompleted products. i'd rather let other people be their test group... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makes The Jelly Judder Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 I'm sure that in a few months games will be requiring you to install DX9 wether you need it or not. Anyone remember Half-life? That didn't even need DX but it still insists that you install the latest version (well latest at that time DX6?). Even my CDV version of CMBB says that I have got to have DX8 even though the graphics engine is unchanged from CMBO which was DX7? I doub't that CMBB really needs DX8. We will all be upgrading in a month or so because our new DX8 games will insist that we install DX9, crazy? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Actually the biggest reason to probably upgrade your DirectX version is when your video drivers require it. So if you upgrade your video drivers every so often, you may come across a version that requires the latest version of DirectX. Beyond that, a number of games are usually programmed with the latest version of DirectX, so it becomes a part of the requirements (though the game may not actually use the newer calls that differentiate it from the previous version). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awdougherty Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 I actually had to upgrade to Direct X 9.0 to get the game to work. I was running Direct X 8.1 in WinXP with the latest NVIDIA drivers (41.xx) for my 4200. I kept getting a black screen at start-up, then nothing. I read the boards and heard stories about going back to earlier drivers, but I thought I would try DX 9 first. That solved whatever my problem was. Since then, perfectly stable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauCoupDinkyDau Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Yeah, 9 seems to be an imporvement. CM runs well, and MoH looks better than ever! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Murray Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 I was thinking about it then I changed my mind I've got 8.1 & I don't want to screw up any of my games - I did create a restore point but I don't want to be screwing around with something that I don't know a lot about. . By the way; do you have to pay for this when you do upgrade to Direct X9? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alarmer Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 DX9 works fine .. r9700pro and 2.5 catalyst 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 the dx9 drivers will be free. i think you only have to pay for an extended SDK if you're a developer. i've heard dx9 mainly includes support for hardware T&L. so they're worth getting for fps's at least. but the code is always being tweaked so i would always upgrade when available. also if you use nVidia kit get the detonator drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp this is my second post to this forum saying more or less the same thing today. i really need to get out more. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splinty Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 I use it(DX 9),no problems in CM, and IL2 runs better than ever! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Weiss Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 I've been using DX9 since it came out, no problems here. CMBB/CMBO run great. It even works well with the Nvidia Glide wrapper from Glidos and RB3D never looked so good. [ January 21, 2003, 10:51 AM: Message edited by: Bruno Weiss ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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