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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: vyper on August 02, 2004, 09:29:09 am

Title: DX9.0c is out, all you Pixel Shader 3.0 fans...
Post by: vyper on August 02, 2004, 09:29:09 am: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx

Not that much uses them yet. :D
Title: DX9.0c is out, all you Pixel Shader 3.0 fans...
Post by: Turnsky on August 02, 2004, 09:33:21 am: i'll hold out until i can get my hands on a card that uses such tech :p
Title: DX9.0c is out, all you Pixel Shader 3.0 fans...
Post by: Fury on August 02, 2004, 09:51:09 am: 9.0C redistributable has been out for some time now. And C also has some bugfixes and not just PS3.0 support.
Title: Re: DX9.0c is out, all you Pixel Shader 3.0 fans...
Post by: Lonestar on August 02, 2004, 12:18:58 pm: Quote
Originally posted by vyper
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx

Not that much uses them yet. :D

You need Nvidia's newest card to use the technology, even then no game uses it anyways so their is no point to it. Im sure things will look nicer with it though.
Title: DX9.0c is out, all you Pixel Shader 3.0 fans...
Post by: DaBrain on August 02, 2004, 12:23:04 pm: I think Far Cry can use PS 3.0.
Although it won't look better, it will run faster.
Title: DX9.0c is out, all you Pixel Shader 3.0 fans...
Post by: J3Vr6 on August 02, 2004, 12:27:07 pm: I actually saw a review of the 3.0 pixel shaders in Far Cry. It looked A LOT better. I prob saw the review posted here.
Title: DX9.0c is out, all you Pixel Shader 3.0 fans...
Post by: DaBrain on August 02, 2004, 12:46:14 pm: Uhm... http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=322
Title: DX9.0c is out, all you Pixel Shader 3.0 fans...
Post by: Vertigo1 on August 02, 2004, 03:24:30 pm: Known about it for a while now. I'm not going to bother downloading it though. Its coming with XP SP2 anyways.
Title: DX9.0c is out, all you Pixel Shader 3.0 fans...
Post by: Sigma957 on August 02, 2004, 05:23:58 pm: I'll wait until its on a coverdisc then I'll install it.