DX10 screenshots

[hans030390]

Originally posted by: terentenet
Sweet. It just occured to me that by the time these games will come out we will need a new generation of video cards for them. Unless DX10 titles are coded differently, 8800GTX will not be able to play those games. Not even SLI.
Just look at the details; it's out of this world. Current gen cards are not meant for that.

Looking at Crysis, I'd say it's the best looking game there. Not only that, but apparently it runs well on even an x1900 something-or-other (I forget which). Considering the speed boost provided by DX10, it should run great on an 8800gtx.

And considering it's the best looking game, I could only hope that the rest run even better on an 8800gtx.

 

[mercanucaribe]

What exactly does DX10 add? Just shading, or do the sharper textures have to do with DX10?

 

[aka1nas]

They unified the pixel and vertex shaders and also created the geometry shader, which works on whole polygons. The API was re-designed so that more operations could be batched or vectorized and to minimize unneccesary communication between the GPU and the rest of the system, which tends to waste GPU cycles.

Mostly Dx10 increases efficiency so programmers can add prettier effects that would be too slow to implement due to Dx9's overhead.