DX9 / XP discussion

I wonder if it is wise to keep the large majority of users waiting in order to satisfy the small minority who still uses DX9 ...

[SiThSpAwN]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

I wonder if it is wise to keep the large majority of users waiting in order to satisfy the small minority who still uses DX9 ...

Dear Moderators,

Can we have a separate thread where people can ask why they are supporting DX9 and where we can continue to reply each time?

Thanks

[yakaddict]

Here is the irony. Name one, ONE dx9 specific graphics card that can properly run CoD? So were going to end up with support for something that no one is going to use. Unless there is a very minor crowd of people who seem to prefer running in dx9 mode on dx10/11 video cards for perhaps minor preformance improvements that should be taken care of in the upcoming patches anyway, who on earth will actually use dx9 ever again on this game? Not to say there is anything wrong with dx9, but more specifically again, there are no video cards that are dx9 specific that can smoothly run CoD, and there never will be.

[Volksieg]

Originally Posted by yakaddict

Unless there is a very minor crowd of people who seem to prefer running in dx9 mode on dx10/11 video cards for perhaps minor preformance improvements....

Yep! And the funny thing is... in a lot of games with DX11 and DX9 support, running it in DX11 will actually give much better performance all round so the benefits of running it in DX9 are, essentially, illusory.

I won't pretend I know, or even begin to understand, why that actually is.

[5./JG27.Farber]

For the 100th time... IL2:Cod said there product would be compatable to DX9... They are upholding their promise... Get it?

[il_corleone]

Stop arguing, we all want the patch, and it seems that going to take, and a while, so here, for me, not going back to buy another IL2 If They do not release the patch, but I claim the patch for the product I bought because I honestly spent for something that is not what I was purchasing aka (the box told me another thing , etc), not to go further, something unfinished.

[SiThSpAwN]

Originally Posted by il_corleone

(the box told me another thing , etc)

Interestingly enough the box also stated they supported DX9... just saying

[GF_Mastiff]

Originally Posted by SiThSpAwN

Interestingly enough the box also stated they supported DX9... just saying

didn't know the box was the final authority on DX9?

[SiThSpAwN]

Originally Posted by GF_Mastiff

didn't know the box was the final authority on DX9?

Its not, but it is the final authority on what they have to support for this release... and now look you guys made B6 face plam lol....

[Volksieg]

Originally Posted by SiThSpAwN

Interestingly enough the box also stated they supported DX9... just saying

Very true.... I think the biggest problem, though, is that 1C are then faced with a choice:

They can say "Sorry... we made a massive mistake! Printing error!" and then face the fireworks.

Or.

They can disappoint an enormous amount of players, face the possibility that anyone who may still be considering purchasing CloD will say "I didn't buy the latest technology to waste my time on this!" and not buy it at all...etc...etc...

I know which one I would choose.

When have the system specs ever been 100% honest on the box of PC games? (Let's be honest with ourselves here!)

Any game, no matter how stable, has at least a few posts on their forum from, understandably, disgruntled people who bought a piece of software that stated they should be able to run it and yet what they really got was a slide show or, worse, didn't even get past the install stage because their systems were just too old..... but the majority will sing its praises because the majority, with the up to date hardware, are having a great time all the time.

You could even refund the poor guys who insist on sticking with DX9! Can't afford it? Think.... if the news was out that CloD is fixed and is the most amazing simulator ever created in the history of mankind... that's a ton of cash heading your way from a whole load of DX10/11 users out there.

Just sayin'