Vista is not needed for DirectX10

This was debunked long ago... NO DX-10 for XP.

DX 9L. Not the same.

DirectX10 games will run only on Vista, but Vista will run earlier versions of DirectX.

A new API for Vista only called DirectX9.0L is planned to improve Vista's performance of DirectX9 games

Fuzzy

Visit TIGERDIRECT look up 8800 series read under directX10

Read above post. you can have a DX10 card in XP but you won't be able to use any of the DX10 features and optimization.

And that is why I ain't buying a Dx10 card until January

I wanted to get a DX10 card yesterday to start testing. A friend of mine showed me the link to by the 8800 on newegg yesterday via PM. But I thought better of it. My 7950GX2 will probably out perform it in a DX9 enviroment. I'll wait till about Feb. before I start to buy and test DX10 cards.

Nono, 8800 far outperforms all 7xxx cards even in DX9.0

I think there's something about this even on the tomshardware homepage.

speu

No DircetX 10 for WinXP

Only Direct 9n but Direct 10 can play the old games

The GeForce 8800 will outperform two of the 7950's in SLI with a single card, even in a DX9 enviroment and by a sizable margin too I'll add.

Most sensible people will probably wait until the R600 benchmarks before looking at making a firm decision on which DX10 card to buy.

This might interest you lot


http://www.technospot.net/blogs/do [...] y-project/

Where did you read that?

http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inqu [...] windows-xp

This will make nice reading for y'all