What are some of the new DirectX 10 compatible games??

[yoda313]

I just read an interesting article on DirectX10 over at yahoo. I do have dx10 on my new hp vista premium pc. I have a nvidia 7300 le pci-e graphics card and an amd 64 2.4ghz pc. The card has 64mb dedicated memory with 320 total shared.

What hot new games can I run without buying a new card? I'm planning on buying Halo 2 for Vista when it is released next month. Will that be DX10 compliant? That should actually make it better than the xbox 1 version of it right? I did have it when I still owned an xbox (don't have it anymore). I would love to play that with a mouse and keyboard - I could finally be a better player than using a gamepad!

Anyway - what new action shooters are out that will take advantage of DX10? Supposedly that article mentioned the DX10 protocol will push pc games well beyond the ps3 and 360. (I know pcs are always more powerful than consoles but this should be interesting).

So what's out there??

[Faustus]

Other then Halo I have no idea and frankly I think making Halo DX10 is just MS extortion.

I mean what vendor wants to make their game Vista only especially as time rolls on and people begin to realize what a bomb of an OS it is.

[SquirrelDip]

Other then Halo I have no idea and frankly I think making Halo DX10 is just MS extortion.

I mean what vendor wants to make their game Vista only especially as time rolls on and people begin to realize what a bomb of an OS it is.

I agree but the world is full of sheeple - Vista will survive (when it probably shouldn't).

Interesting enough - the sheeple are beginning to learn: There a senior guy in my office that has been running the same Dell P4 (non-pirated) at home for about 4 years now. He's got auto updates on so, of course, hes got WGA loaded - seems last week he's getting the "You may be a victim..." message. It's pissing him off enough to be looking into a Mac for his next machine.

[Faustus]

Basically unless Spore comes out and is DX10 only Vista can stay in a VM for me.

[yoda313]

Well I finally found official system requirements for HALO 2 on VISTA:


http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8301811&type=product&tab=4&id=1172881771432

PC Processor Type Intel® Pentium® 4 processor

PC Processor Speed 2GHz

PC Operating System Windows Vista

PC System Memory 1GB RAM

PC Hard Drive Space 7GB

PC Video DirectX 9.0-compatible NVIDIA 6000 or ATI x700 video card

PC Drive Type and Speed DVD-ROM

PC Additional Requirements Internet service required to access online features


Ironically it says you can use a direct x 9 video card but its requirement is WINDOWS VISTA so that kinda is self defeating. It still means you won't be able to run it on a dx9 XP machine.

Anywho - I will be able to run it without a problem. EXCEPT my only constraint might be system ram - I only have 1gig for the system ram so that might slow down a tiny bit. But I have a 2.4ghz AMD 3800 and a NVIDIA 7300LE pci-e card with Directx 10 installed on my system.

I should be able to play Halo 2 at or near full res without much problem - let me correct that - I should be able to play it at 1024 relatively easily.

[highvolumeJP]

I just read an interesting article on DirectX10 over at yahoo. I do have dx10 on my new hp vista premium pc. I have a nvidia 7300 le pci-e graphics card and an amd 64 2.4ghz pc. The card has 64mb dedicated memory with 320 total shared.

Just because you have VISTA on your PC and DX10 installed does NOT mean you will run your games in DX10 mode. In your case games would run in DX9 mode, if at all. Your onboard graphics card is a low-end GeForce 7 (The 7300 are not suitable for playing games at high quality settings) you will get a lot of problems playing the latest games with a 7300 The 7300 is a DX9 card, not a DX10. To play games in DX10 mode you need a DX10 capable video card which is a GeForce 8 series. Don't bother with onboard video - get yourself a dedicated video card. The BFG GeForce 6800GTS OC is fairly inexpensive or if you can afford the 8800 go for it