DIRECT X *.*** WHICH CARD SUPPORTS WHICH X

[techno_funky]

DirectX 6: This is the extreme low end. DX6 cards running Half-Life 2 will look a lot like HL. Textures are only 128x128 or 256x256. Everything will look very nasty. TNT2, ATI Rage, S3 Savage, Voodoo3, Matrox G200, motherboard integrated graphics.

DirectX 7: A DX7 based card is what I consider the actual playable low end for Half-Life 2. You should get 3D sky, some volumetric effects, hardware T&L, 256x256 textures, decals, dynamic shadows, and medium resolution displacement maps. Geforce, GeForce2, Radeon 7000 series, nForce integrated graphics.

DirectX 8: Things will start to look good on a DX8 based card. 3D sky, volumetric smoke, dynamic refraction, vertex and pixel shaders, bump-mapping, 512x512 textures, high detailed props, full dynamic shadows, fresnel specularity, high resolution displacement maps. GeForce3 ti200-500, GeForce4 ti4200-4800, Radeon 8500-9200, Matrox Parhelia, SiS Xabre.

DirectX 9: A DX9 card will show Half-Life 2 the way it is supposed to look. All the effects will be fantastic, and you will be the envy of your friends. GeForce FX5200-5950, Radeon 9500-9800XT.


hope this helps

[TheMask]

Hey techno, nice post man.

Now, cud u kindly post this at tech-arena too?

If u dont, i'll do it hehehe

[ice]

nice post..

I have a card based on dx 6.

[rock_ya_baby]

liar u have onboard gfx, noooo card

[ice]

DirectX 6: This is the extreme low end. DX6 cards running Half-Life 2 will look a lot like HL. Textures are only 128x128 or 256x256. Everything will look very nasty. TNT2, ATI Rage, S3 Savage, Voodoo3, Matrox G200, motherboard integrated graphics.

Motherboaard integrated gfx???

[rock_ya_baby]

Motherboaard integrated gfx = on board gfx

[ice]

thats what i have... On board piece of wierd bullshit from "KRYPTON" 4 mb gfx card..

[sahil170]

does your card support opengl, if it does yours is a dx 6 card.

[techno_funky]

Hey thanks MASK ill do it if u want

[ice]

Yeah, my card duznt support Open Gl.
thus its a Dx 6 based, piece of **** card.

[TheMask]

Techno, i wud be glad if u did that

[akshayt]

thanks for the piece of info

[techno_funky]

BUMP

[svenkat83]

Cool man.Thanks for the info.Appreciate that
There are people who think DirectX 9 won't install and Direct X 6 cards.Thats not true.Someone explain that too coz I don't have the expertise to answer that.

[Nemesis]

can some1 tell me what happens when u install a higher version of directX than what ur card was originally meant 2 b compatible with? i mean i hav a geforce3 ti 500 which is a dx8 compatible card. now what happens when i install dx9??

[sailendra]

Short answer: Nothing!
DirectX is designed to be backward compatiable, so those new features that your card doesn't have support for dont ever get used. But I guess some games insist on particular version of DirectX to be present in your system.

[blade_runner]

Nemesis Since ur card doesn't support DirectX 9 u won't be able to enjoy the features supported by a DX9 complaint card, that's all.

[Nemesis]

ah ic! thanx 4 da info.

[anidex]

What's OpenGL support gotta do with ice's on-board graphics adapter being DX6 compliant?

[aadipa]

hehe that was an old post, now he have a new PC

[crusader77]

What's OpenGL support gotta do with ice's on-board graphics adapter being DX6 compliant?

It isn't necessary that a dx6 compliant card must support OpenGL. But i think ice had an intel 810 which did support OpenGL.
Actually 'OpenGL emulators' require a minimum dx6 compliant card to emulate it.