Vista DX10 feedback

[dcaccavano]

The game ran great for me as long as i kept it to 16 colors, if i upped it to 32, king graham kept dissapearing and there were major clipping issues all over the island as well as a lot of missing objects.  just wanted to let you know that it works fine with vista and DX10 as long as i dont try 32 colors!

my specs:
vista home premium 64-bit
core 2 duo e6600
2g ddr2 pc2 6400
geforce 8800 gts 640mb

[koko_99_2001]

Thanks so much for letting us know! If no one from the design team replies by tomorrow, I'll make sure they see it I'm sure they'll want to know

And welcome dcaccavano!!

[dcaccavano]

thank you for the welcome.  I was so excited to play the demo and INCREDIBLY impressed with what you guys have done!  keep up the good work.

[Petter Holmberg]

Hmm, are you running the game with DirectX or OpenGL rendering? It's recommended that you use OpenGL if possible.

[dcaccavano]

I guess i am not really sure how i am rendering it.  the only options that i could find in the options on the main menu were resuloution, bit depth, and screenshot, under screenshot i have the choice between jpeg and png.  i have it running at 1024X768 16 bit color depth and jpeg screenshot and it works great, if i change the bit depth to 32, graham starts dissapearing, textures clip over eachother, objects dissapear, and it runs pretty slowly.  i have not changed the screenshot setting from jpeg because, honestly, i have no idea what it means.  any thoughts?

[dew7]

Latest Direct X --- is 9.0c --- April 2007 --- there is no Direct X 10 available yet for the public

"DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer
Brief Description
April 2007
The Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime provides updates to 9.0c and previous versions of DirectX — the core Windows® technology that drives high-speed multimedia and games on the PC."

From the Microsoft DirectX website

[TribeHasSpoken]

DirectX 10 is for Windows Vista only.

[dew7]

I see your point and I checked it out on Wikipedia and it seems that DirectX 9 is the one to use for now since XP and DX9 is where all the support is currently but eventually that will change.  Thanks for the correction.

DirectX version    Version number    Operating system    Date released
DirectX 1.0    4.02.0095         September 30, 1995
DirectX 2.0 / 2.0a    4.03.00.1096    Windows 95 OSR2 and NT 4.0    June 5, 1996
DirectX 3.0 / 3.0a    4.04.0068 / 70    Windows NT 4.0 SP3
last supported version of DirectX for Windows NT 4.0    September 15, 1996
DirectX 4.0    Never launched         
DirectX 5.0    4.05.00.0155    Available as a beta for Windows NT 5.0 that would install on Windows NT 4.0    July 16, 1997
DirectX 5.1              December 1, 1997
DirectX 5.2    4.05.01.1600    DirectX 5.2 release for Windows 95    May 5, 1998
DirectX 5.2    4.05.01.1998    Windows 98    May 5, 1998
DirectX 6.0    4.06.00.0318    Windows CE for the Dreamcast    August 7, 1998
DirectX 6.1    4.06.02.0436    Windows 98 SE
last version of DirectX Media for Windows NT 4.0    February 3, 1999
DirectX 7.0    4.07.00.0700    Windows 2000    September 22, 1999
DirectX 7.0a    4.07.00.0716         1999
DirectX 7.1    4.07.01.3000    Windows ME    September 16, 1999
DirectX 8.0    4.08.00.? (RC0)         September 30, 2000
DirectX 8.0    4.08.00.0400 (RC14)    Xbox
     November 3, 2000
DirectX 8.0a    4.08.00.0400 (RC14) + installer fixes    Last supported version
for Windows 95    November 7, 2000
DirectX 8.1    4.08.01.0810
4.08.01.0881 (RC7)    Windows XP    November 12, 2001
DirectX 9.0    4.09.00.0900    Windows Server 2003    December 19, 2002
DirectX 9.0a    4.09.00.0901         March 26, 2003
DirectX 9.0b    4.09.00.0902 (RC2)         August 13, 2003
DirectX 9.0c    4.09.00.0904 (RC0)    Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Xbox 360. Last pure 32-bit release.    December 13, 2004
DirectX 9.0c    4.09.00.0904    Compatible with all Windows OS versions that 9.0c (RC0) was compatible with
First version to include D3DX DLLs    December 9, 2005
DirectX 9.0c - bimonthly updates    4.09.00.0904    The December '05, and February '06 updates also add the XML format to some classes.    Usually released bimonthly from August 2005 until present; Latest version: April 10, 2007
DirectX 9.0Ex       Vista exclusive for DX9 games to run with Vista drivers and enables Aero support for older video cards.    November 30, 2006
DirectX 10.0       Windows Vista exclusive    November 30, 2006