When DX10 finally arrives and rentokill answer the usual plea for help with all the bugs that will appear from the cracks after it’s been used by real people for a bit…… Then I probably will have a look…
DX10 is the only good reason for the upgrade. Should be interesting to see if Redmond give in to the pressure, and release DX10 for xp. They are claiming it’s an impossible job. Apparently the Hardware Abstraction Layer is below the driver layer in vista, as opposed to above in xp – basically means the HAL is directly responsible for the calls to the hardware, instead of manufacturers drivers. The manufacturers have to write drivers to a standardised code pattern, and the HAL then uses them to control the silicon. This allegedly makes it possible for them to do things with DX10 that can’t be done with the previous API structure, and will result in “the most stable windows ever”…:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:
Get the feeling somehow that the term “impossible” they use here is replacing the term “a lot of work and money spent for no reason that makes sense to the beast of redmond”:wink:
DX10 does look good though…. And DX is pretty much the only piece of code to come out of Microsoft that has been done consistently well (after DX 7 anyway)
