Video card poll

[Rice]

What kind of video card are you using? Does it support new features in DirectX8 and DirectX9?

[Martin]

Interesting poll, Rice. :)

I hope lots of people vote so we'll see what the market's like.

[vleespet]

DX9 for me.

[scotty]

My card is DirectX 8.1, but I still use 9.0 on my computer.

as said above, interesting poll. I think Rice is doing this so he knows where to head with his plugin

[aprentice]

Interesting poll, Rice. :)

I hope lots of people vote so we'll see what the market's like.


http://www.darkengine.net/sysinfo/userstats.php

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT
nVidia Corporation 3891 (62.0%)
ATi Technologies 1417 (22.6%)
3DFX Interactive 66 (1.1%)
Intel Corporation 154 (2.5%)
S3 Incorporated 151 (2.4%)
Trident Microsystems 24 (0.4%)
Other 568 (9.1%)


This is based on 6,245 people's specs submission.
Theres some of the market for ya :P

nVidia in the lead :P

[Rice]

http://www.darkengine.net/sysinfo/userstats.php

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT
nVidia Corporation 3891 (62.0%)
ATi Technologies 1417 (22.6%)
3DFX Interactive 66 (1.1%)
Intel Corporation 154 (2.5%)
S3 Incorporated 151 (2.4%)
Trident Microsystems 24 (0.4%)
Other 568 (9.1%)


This is based on 6,245 people's specs submission.
Theres some of the market for ya :P

nVidia in the lead :P


Thanks for the interesting information. The information I am looking for is slightly different from it. I don't care the GPU vendor, but the features supported by GPUs.

[Trotterwatch]

My card is DirectX 8.1, but I still use 9.0 on my computer.

as said above, interesting poll. I think Rice is doing this so he knows where to head with his plugin
You still need to put DX8 as your vote, as your card doesn't support DX9 features (ie Pixel Shader 2.0 for example).

[Hexidecimal]

DX9, Pixel Sahder 2 here, i love my radeon

[Clements]

My card is fully DX9 and OpenGL 1.4 (+1.5?) compliant. Good luck with whatever you are planning Rice.

[sheik124]

so my current card isn't dx9, but i am getting a new one next week, good enough, DX9 RULES!

[Tagrineth]

::huggles her Radeon 9500 Pro:: Best value card EVER.

[gokuss4]

GeForce 3 here..

[vleespet]

Nobody can beat my Radeon 9800pro 256mb! :P

Note that the specs in my sig are just my Gamecube :)

[Doomulation]

I never cared for to get a newer card than my gf4 ti, I mean - I don't need any better! So dx8 for me.

[Kaoss626]

I voted Dx8, but I have 2 machines that I run games on, mine and my sons. His is a GF2U so that one is sub DX8, but I can't vote twice

[Moose Jr.]

PowerColor Radeon 9700 NP. Supports most DX9 features, I think.

[Lillymon]

Only DirectX 8.1 on this card. But I plan to upgrade to a DirectX 9 complient card when prices have dropped somewhat.

[The Khan Artist]

1x ATi All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro (main PC)
2x 3Dfx Voodoo 5 5500
1x ATi Rage Pro Turbo (I never intend to do N64 emulaiton on this PC)
1x Intel i810 Integrated Graphics

All I particularly care about in terms of your plugin is the All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro. Having the i810 work would be nice, but I don't really care about it.

[Malcolm]

Radeon 9500 softmodded -> 9700

[Tagrineth]

Note that the specs in my sig are just my Gamecube :)

Graphics chip is the ArtX "Flipper", which also contains audio.

[scotty]

although most of you have a DX9 card; I still am happy with the fact that my card is now AGP and it is a 128MB card (my old one was a PCI and 64MB). I am not sure what the Radeon 9200 equivalent is to NVidia, but I still think its good.

[tilex]

I have a RADEON 7500 but i use DirectX9...

[Doomulation]

That card isn't dx9 compliant. More like dx8-. Even if you use dx9, it doesn't support all of its features.

It's amazing how many people who has high-end cards for dx9, though :blink:
I thought there'd be more who had dx8 cards then dx9...but as it seems, the dx8 users are the lowest ones now...

[Trotterwatch]

I would wager that a not insignifcant minority are putting DX9 as that is the version of DX they are currently using (and not what they should be doing, and putting down the version the card can handle).

[ShadowFX]

GeForce 3, although I'm using DirectX 9... this is still a DirectX 8 compliant.

[fivefeet8]

I would wager that a not insignifcant minority are putting DX9 as that is the version of DX they are currently using (and not what they should be doing, and putting down the version the card can handle).


Yeah. Most aren't aware of the difference between Dx9 "compliant" and Dx9 "Compatible".

[Clements]

In reality most people still use DX7 cards most, then 8.1/8.0 cards, and least people use 9.0 cards.

Still, a lot of people can use some kind of Pixel Shaders (8.1/8.0 + 9.0 users can use some form of them).

[Rice]

Using pixel shaders gives very nice result in term of texture combiner.

But, new DX8/9 cards are precessing vertex data really different from older ones.

The software vertex clipper I wrote is totally not necessary for most older cards, but it is the most important for new ones. New cards seem not to be able to render non-clipped primitives. (But old cards are rendering the same primitives very well!) At the same time, OpenGL on the same video cards does not have such problems. I don't understand what the companies are doing with their DirectX drivers.

[Doomulation]

That's a bummer. Sounds like they need to download a small proggie to tell if they are dx9 compitable or not. Seems like we need a new poll for that, too :satisfied :P

[Trotterwatch]

Hmmm, didn't you make a small proggy like that a while back Doom? Or I am getting you mixed up with someone else.

[Tagrineth]

That card isn't dx9 compliant. More like dx8-. Even if you use dx9, it doesn't support all of its features.

Try DX7.

[RJARRRPCGP]

I have a RADEON 7500 but i use DirectX9...

This video card is a DirectX 7-hardware video card.

[Doomulation]

Hmmm, didn't you make a small proggy like that a while back Doom? Or I am getting you mixed up with someone else.
Oh I did one that checked the shader/pixel version plus the resolution supported & pure hardware check.

I guess that would confuse n00bs and I'd have to change so to make it say if it's DX9 compliant or not.

[FAR]

DX8 rules!

[Tagrineth]

DX8 rules!

DX8 is actually quite primitive compared to DX9... and DX10 will put both to shame.

[FAR]

DX8 is actually quite primitive compared to DX9... and DX10 will put both to shame.

I prefer speed. The new abilities of DX9 does not boost a DX8 card like mine.

[Doomulation]

I prefer speed. The new abilities of DX9 does not boost a DX8 card like mine.
Since DirectX remains backwards compitable; it's speed will not drop for apps using older version of directx. Besides, dx9 features many speed optimizations from dx8. Your argument is empty.

[Tagrineth]

I prefer speed. The new abilities of DX9 does not boost a DX8 card like mine.

Uh... did you really think it would? You fucking idiot... do you have any idea what DirectX actually does?

[cooliscool]

DX7 card here, GeForce4 MX 440 w/ AGP 8X.. Works ok, but I feel that I need a 9500 (+) sometime soon. :)

[FAR]

Uh... did you really think it would? You fucking idiot... do you have any idea what DirectX actually does?

In fact, I do not have specific technical background knowledge of how DX works. I do only know that under DX9 my machine performed an overall slowdown which has never occured under DX8.1b. I've mentioned only my own experience which does not allow you to use this kind of attitude. If you have problems with controlling yourself, turn to a psychiatrist.

[Doomulation]

In fact, I do not have specific technical background knowledge of how DX works. I do only know that under DX9 my machine performed an overall slowdown which has never occured under DX8.1b. I've mentioned only my own experience which does not allow you to use this kind of attitude. If you have problems with controlling yourself, turn to a psychiatrist.
This is not DX's fault, mind you. Something else is causing it.

[Tagrineth]

In fact, I do not have specific technical background knowledge of how DX works. I do only know that under DX9 my machine performed an overall slowdown which has never occured under DX8.1b. I've mentioned only my own experience which does not allow you to use this kind of attitude. If you have problems with controlling yourself, turn to a psychiatrist.

How 'bout I turn to some hormone-altering pills once a month? I'm actually considering it at this point...

Anyway, that's quite odd. You should probably consider reinstalling DX9, along with your mainboard / AGP and graphics drivers.