Considering the bad press it has been getting and the fact that DX9 games are not really available yet with only new Radeons currently able to use the new functionality, I have been holding off installing it.

So, I am wondering how everyone that has installed it feels about DX9. Any horror stories? I have heard that it was pretty buggy and really should still be considered betaware. Any thoughts?

I've added it and in terms of the games I use (not murder, death, kill) everything seems to be fine with it. In fact I have not really noticed a great deal of difference after upgrading.

Any way there you go.

Only ONE post? Come on guys, I know tons of you have installed it. The ex lead developer of DX claims it is really bad and really should be considered alpha code! Of course, I don't know what the story is about WHY he is an EX MS employee, but there must be some concern there because MS has not denied his claim. *shrugs* I don't know. I just wanted several opinions before I install it, but then considering it has not been available on Windows update should say something. Since no DX9 games will be out for a while, I think I will just wait to install it until I absolutely NEED it. :)

there's a conflict with directplay, msn / windows messenger, and the internet connection sharing / firewall service that leads to messenger trying to create a new firewall rule on some systems every 30 seconds, causing messenger to freeze till it's done, happened to me till i restored DX8, so if I were you I'd wait till they get that patched if you use messenger

I've installed over the past weeks, havent have any error, but dont see any difference... in terms of performace..

I just ordered a Radeon 9500 pro GFX board. Looking forward to using DX9 with it, but I'm gonna wait until atleast DX9a is out or maybe even DX9.1. :rolleyes: :lol: Thanks guys.

It stuffed up my voice modem, so i did a system restore

Works fine with my geforce fx 5200

dx9.0a is out.. and dx9.0b will be out soon :)

they actually announced 9.0b today, but all the links I have checked have been dead..

probably no big differnceover 9.0a, but you never know until you try it!




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