Makaveli213 said:
Yes the reason why everything for Crysis being DX9 is because only DX9 machines run it right now. There are only 2 sets of DX10 cards out there and the screenshots of the game were taken before those cards were put out into production. So how can you run a game in DX10 if there is no hardware for it?
Why would they take a game that CLEARLY works on DirectX 9 and LOCK it into DirectX 10? All that will do is irritate 7950GX2 owners and the like. Not every gamer has or can afford a new video card, it would be completely irrational to do so.
Makaveli213 said:
The game will be DX10. It will be for Vista. this we know. Vista does DX10. It only emulates DX9 which is a lower technology. So why would they limit the game to DX9 when DX10 is way more powerful? I highly doubt they would do that.
They won't, it will be like every freaking game in existance right now. Take Half-Life 2 for example, it will work on DirectX 8 hardware, but that doesn't mean that it's limited to DirectX 8 graphics or performance on DirectX 9 hardware. Heck, look at Unreal Tournament 2004, it works on DirectX 8, 9, OpenGL, whatever.
Makaveli213 said:
Also look at what you linked to. July 14,2006 for the requirements. Which at the Time Vista was still in Beta. Also the stuff on IGN isnt the best to go by. they are good but they also have a fan base to consider.
Wait and see what happens why Crysis gets closer to release. You will see the requirements get updated to include Vista (Which is doesnt now since back in July wait i said this already...) and it will also show nVidia 8800 GTX and 8800 GTS along with the R600 from ATi (if that ever gets released.)
I am almost positive that things will change now that DX10 cards are out and getting cheaper and that technology will better handle what they want to do with the game.
As far as Halo 2 it has been confirmed long ago that it will be Vista only which means DX10 only.
Go here:
http://media.pc.ign.com/media/694/694190/vids_1.html
It's the CES 07 Interview...
Are you saying that in this interview where the lead guy from Crytek says, and I quote "so gamers who are running right now with DX9 specifications - high end DX9 or middle end DX9 ... they don't need to be worried about the ability of playing Crysis. Crysis will run on about 2 and a half to 3 year old ... hardware, so it will run on old ... hardware, but to an extent ... of course ... but with DX9 you will be able to get the core game experience." that he didn't actually mean it?
He doesn't speak english very well, so excuse all the "..." where I took out studders, etc...
Are you saying that because IGN isn't a good place to go, he didn't actually say these things at CES 2007?
Right.
WorldIndustries said:
There will be a patch that will make DX9 comptuers run DX10. It may not be an official patch, but there will be one.
Is there a patch that will let DirectX 8 cards run DirectX 9?
What makes you think there will be one for DX10?