Directx10

Instinct5

Instinct5

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my vid card is dx10 compatible and i was wondering how it worked and how i get it cause its still showing i have dx9.0c so i was wondering if it was like something u download or if its something that comes with ur vid card driver disc?
 
Vista comes with DX10 included but will also run DX9. The video card itself while being DX10 compatible is not a strictly DX10 required card to see the full implementation of 10 still being a DX9 card in most ways. The current games out are still DX9 based until newer ones requiring Vista and DX10 come out.
 
Yes, some games are in DX9, some in DX10. Others like Crysis allow you to play in either. Since your GPU can display DX10, if you're playing a DX10 game it will display it.
 
Once you get into something no longer XP/DX9 compatible requiring SX10 then the Direct X tool will obviously display 10. XP by itself didn't come with 9c but saw an upgrade to it by separately being downloaded whether by updates or manually going to MS to see it downloaded direct.
 
Since you have Vista, I'm a little confused here. What does DXDIAG say you have for a DirectX version? It should say DirectX 10.
 
Even with Vista coming with 10 included you are still mainly running in the DX9 framework until getting into DX10 games as well as DX10 required model cards. All that will be a wait to see however since even newer games will likely be XP/DX9 compatible still. In fact I run some old 98/ME/2000 games on Vista with 9c installed as well.
 
PC eye said:
Even with Vista coming with 10 included you are still mainly running in the DX9 framework until getting into DX10 games as well as DX10 required model cards. All that will be a wait to see however since even newer games will likely be XP/DX9 compatible still. In fact I run some old 98/ME/2000 games on Vista with 9c installed as well.
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That wouldn't matter, DXDIAG should still say he had DirectX 10.

dxdiag_dx10.jpg
 
Not if a bad install of Windows was seen. The software installer for the video card likely saw 9 go on while something was lost when Vista was installed. Once the dxdiag command was used it reported what is lacking. Until a reinstallation is performed you will be limited to 9c there.
 
Archangel said:
you could always try and just download DX10 from the microsoft website I suppose :)

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/AboutGFW/Pages/directx10-a.aspx
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Which would be a waste of time since DX10 is not available separately from Vista like previously releases.

DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer

Brief Description

November 2007
The Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime provides updates to 9.0c and previous versions of DirectX — the core Windows® technology that drives high-speed multimedia and games on the PC.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en

When running XP or older versions that saw 8.1 or none you then had to go to MS directly to download the latest version seen.
 
DX10 isn't available separately like seen with 9c and older versions. It's new in Vista only being built into the new version. If the drivers for 10 were knocked out you two options of either seeing a system restore to bring the system back where you can or see Windows reinstalled all over again.

This is one thing many complain when looking at Vista and seeing 10 and other things now built into the version and not simply optional with either a separate update or the add/remove Windows components option from 98 to XP for the most part. Supposedly the other separate 9L will be a version of 10 for XP. When?
 
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