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Mar 25^th, 2006 at 3:32am

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..curently using Dx10 graphics cards because they are not out
on the commercial market yet

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Reply #1 - Mar 25^th, 2006 at 8:54am

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no... dx10 cards are not used as they will still be on the design stage not ready for people like M$ to have them.

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Reply #2 - Mar 25^th, 2006 at 9:56am

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So will fsx look much better than the previews?

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Reply #3 - Mar 25^th, 2006 at 9:58am

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They could be using the cards....Not sure if they've actually made any DX10 cards yet, but if they have, the beta testers are probably using them (M$ have probably bought a few for the beta testers Cheesy

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Reply #4 - Mar 25^th, 2006 at 10:56am

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Wow that's amazing, at first I thought the same thing, M$ may of had some Beta test DX10. If their not and those shot's dont include the performance and detail of DX10, it's still really great, as the previews go. Shocked

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Reply #5 - Mar 25^th, 2006 at 1:50pm

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Wow that's amazing, at first I thought the same thing, M$ may of had some Beta test DX10. If their not and those shot's dont include the performance and detail of DX10, it's still really great, as the previews go. Shocked

for an example of how little of the new features will be used so the game remains backward compatible load up cod2 and select drictx 9.0 mode, then 7 there's a differance but it's very minor.

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Reply #6 - Apr 24^th, 2006 at 8:29pm

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Actually is a very big difference. The smoke / fog in COD2. And frame rate differences, even reflections.

To answer the question, no these screens are on DX9 and Pixel Shader V3. However the game is suppost to be DX10 and Pixel Shader V4 when it comes out. But with the delay of Vista, and such tech coming out we may end up with a DX9 / PS3 Game and have a patch to DX10 / PS4 when they come out.

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Reply #7 - Apr 29^th, 2006 at 5:35am

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The beta test systems, and even dev workstations are all using Direct X 9 hardware, and yes, the screenshots are in DX9.

With shader 4 you will only get a new more fancy effects, and optimizations, atleast until games are 100% DX10.

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