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DirectX 10

by Morrie · in General Discussion · 09/08/2006 (9:45 pm) · 7 replies

Check this out on Gamasutra: http://www.gdclondon.com/conf/nvidia.htm?cid=NVGABANR

DirectX 10 is going to to be great; Think of the posibilites.
The question is will I be able to use it with Windows Professional or will I have to get Windows Vista and if I have to get windows Vista will my current programs work on it.
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Torque 3D Owner iHugMedia
#1
09/08/2006 (9:52 pm)
The other question (big one for me) is are you willing to relearn everything about DirectX again?

Torque 3D Owner Morrie
#2
09/08/2006 (10:04 pm)
My school tought me in a month, well 5 weeks so depending on how much I have plenty of time. Knowledge is only as far as the person wants to go with it.

Torque 3D Owner iHugMedia
#3
09/08/2006 (11:53 pm)
Yeah I spent a few months learning DirectX 9 from about $60 worth of books, I don't really have as much time as I did beforehand to relearn everything, completely changing the API is a bit of a turnoff for me, but OpenGL is doing it aswell so I guess im stuck for now.

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DrewFX
#4
09/08/2006 (11:59 pm)
Those who have been programming in DirectX since the beginning will know that every new version requires you to relearn interfaces, callbacks, methods etc... that's the fun part of DirectX :P

Torque Owner Anton Bursch
#5
09/09/2006 (12:09 am)
And every new version of DirectX has been far far easier to learn than the previous.

Torque Owner Westy
#6
09/09/2006 (2:23 am)
I have been doing some D3D10 programming, its not that different.

Torque 3D Owner Morrie
#7
09/10/2006 (9:09 am)
Also I was reading some websites: The web sites I was reading say that D3D10 is not going to be available for the Xbox 360: which mean as after it comes out the PC will be able to give a whole different perspective on games with better graphics and sound quality. Just a theory.