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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
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.
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did you actually look at the comparison shots of Crysis on XP with Very High settings vs Crysis on Vista with DX10? the difference is subtle at best, with only a few extra shadows noticeable in DX10. here's a piece that Gamespot did showing exactly that
http://www.gamespot.com/features/618...g=header;title
DX10 is pointless and was only developed as a way to sell a crappy OS (Vista). and already there is a group of coders working on bringing DX10 to XP (you can already download an alpha version
here) so by the time that you can
actually notice any difference between DX9 and DX10 games, you won't have to give up XP to do it