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Old 31st Dec 02, 09:07 PM
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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?
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Old 1st Jan 03, 12:12 PM
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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.
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Old 7th Jan 03, 06:01 PM
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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.
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Old 7th Jan 03, 06:11 PM
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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
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Old 8th Jan 03, 08:02 AM
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I've installed over the past weeks, havent have any error, but dont see any difference... in terms of performace..
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Old 8th Jan 03, 06:50 PM
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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. Thanks guys.
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It stuffed up my voice modem, so i did a system restore
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Old 19th Jul 03, 07:36 AM
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Works fine with my geforce fx 5200
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Old 20th Jul 03, 10:33 PM
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dx9.0a is out.. and dx9.0b will be out soon
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Old 21st Jul 03, 03:31 AM
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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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