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Originally Posted by LockedOut
IMO DX10 still is not ready for prime time. Vista+DX10 usually means a hit in performance for minor visual improvements. Even in Crysis there is a hack to get most of the DX10 visual enhancements in XP and DX9. This makes the difference in DX10 and DX9 in Crysis the same (ie. minimal difference) as any other game supporting both.
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That was a hoax. None of the DX10 enhancements were in the purported hack/workaround. All they did was figure out how to edit a text file so that the game would use higher graphical settings than were available in the given options in the demo. No DX10 effects or shaders were used. It was not minimally different at all, you can blatantely see the differences (water did not refract light into a prisim of color, depth of view/focus effects didn't change, foliage didn't have the proper light bleeding, etc.).
DX10 for me, is not about performance (the claimed better performance under DX10 is pretty much false anyway as a game under DX10 is going to be more graphically demanding) but getting the best eye-candy. Unfortunately, I've tried Vista and couldn't live with it so I'm going to stick with DX9 for awhile yet. I still however, do need a faster single-slot card and the 8800GT prices are absolutely ridiculous at the moment.