Video Card DirextX compability? NEED A PRO HELP!!?
I wanna buy a video card that is a DirectX 10. but I'm running a windows XP and I don't wanna upgrade to vista/dx10.
My question is, will a video card that is a DX10 will work with a DX9/XP system?
I wanna buy a video card that is a DirectX 10. but I'm running a windows XP and I don't wanna upgrade to vista/dx10.
My question is, will a video card that is a DX10 will work with a DX9/XP system?
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Video cards use backwards compatibility, if they didn't then all of the video card manufacturers would be bankrupt and Linux, etc would generally have no video cards that support it.
DirectX support is based on "x version and higher".
A DirectX 10 video card (for example the EVGA 8800GT 512MB), will work on any operating system that NVIDIA has driver support for, and with any DirectX version up to 10. Simply put, YES, it will work for you!
You should make sure to keep your DirectX version as up to date as possible, that would be DirectX 9.0c which will give you Pixel Shader 3.0 support (among other things) as long as your video card supports it (the one I mentioned above does, since it's DirectX 10 capable).
To buy a more advanced card than you currently support just means that you are future proofing. When you want to upgrade to the newest operating system you won't have any problems doing so!
Good luck!
Such a video card will work in DX9 mode in an XP system.
To use DX10 you need to upgrade to Vista.