DirectX 9 Poll

[Redroach]

Good sayings, so far, AndyJWest

What would those people crying "DX11" say if they, for whatever reason, are stuck with the october, 2011 version of the game? 7% would have it that way, as of now.
There are decisions which can't exactly be resolved by majority vote, you know? If that was the case, American Indians would even have had a harder time than they have had already (example! Don't dive into that topic now!)...

[Force10]

Steam is dropping support for XP users on August 31st. Kinda ironic.

[Flanker35M]

S!

I think Steam support drops for those with XP and SP1 or lower so by looks of it XP with SP3 is still supported. Just my interpretation of it.

As of DirectX 9.0c support. ANY modern card that can run many games of today with reasonable FPS can run older DX versions. So kind of moot to always refer that so many have older rigs. Even a mid priced rig can beat the crap out of an old rig and upgrading to 64-bit OS for example is cheaper than buying a new one.

Matter of how you spend your money..for some a 90Eu/USD purchase of an OS seems expensive while they shell out the same in one evening at a bar or similar without any remorse..go figure

Maybe people should go Windows 7 64-bit more then..And luckily some games in near future will be 64-bit only. Time to drop off the XP and 32-bit. Never looked back after going W7 64-bit.

[Redroach]

Stop it! Stop it! STOP IT! DX9 is supported on the CoD box -> CoD stays supported until at least the next (first? last? never-coming?) addon. Simple as that. Call it "contractual obligation" if you want to.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

What about the 1,924 views this poll has currently had? That gives 208 "no" votes, 15 "yes" votes, and 1701 "can't be bothered to vote in this pointless poll" votes...

It's too obvious, too reasonable and thus not the way we roll around here

Ok, to be serious, i doubt anything that is said here can change things about CoD. What we can do is vote about what we'd like to see in the sequel, but CoD is bound to support it, simply because it said DX9 will be supported and people bought it that way. It's dead simple.

Like i said in the update thread, if you think the writing on the box doesn't matter then nobody can complain about the game not working. If it says DX9 but it shouldn't be fixed, then why should the "massive 128 pilot multiplayer" aspect be fixed? It's on the box too, so it should be irrelevant as well. Or the recommended specs giving the expected performance? It's also on the box

You see, that's what's getting to me. It's not the fact that opinions differ, i'm fine with that. It's the selective reasoning and biased applying of deduction rules on a case by case basis that i can't stand.

What happened to "people bought this sim and they are entitled to fly it" ? Does this only apply to people who are DX10 capable and above? Or did nobody with a DX9 system buy it?

Not to mention that DX10 mode has been mostly playable for months. DX9 has been almost completely unplayable the whole time. So i don't see anyone having any ground to complain about being sidelined here, because if anybody is, it's the DX9 users first and foremost.

On a final note, remember our precious, shiny effects that we love so much and everybody was upset and accusing the devs of cutting features to artificially improve performance in the alpha patch when they went missing? They are coded entirely in DX9. So, if anyone wants to wait another couple months for the team to do all the effects from scratch on DX10 only, be my guest and support the exclusion of DX9.

It's pretty cut and dried guys. Even if they could drop DX9 legally, it's probably faster to optimize it and keep it, than redo all the DX9 features from scratch. And if they did drop it, let's be honest here, we all know what would happen. Some among the number of people who support dropping DX9 would be the first to complain that it's taking too long to get it done in DX10 and that we should have the DX9 features in the meantime to fill in the gaps. Which is exactly what they are doing now and everyone is up in arms about it.

We really don't know much about the reasons behind certain decisions, but this whole debate is hilarious simply because it largely ignores even what little we do know: that effects are done entirely in DX9 and scraping support for it would mean more patch delays to redo them from scratch in DX10.

No DX9 = patch takes longer. It's really that simple

[Redroach]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

[...]Or did nobody with a DX9 system buy it?[...]

Hey, I got an Idea about that! The OP could get some IP addresses etc. from 1C and question everyone by mail, phone, personal visit etc. if he/she uses DX9 hardware. If he can exclude each and everyone, maybe we will getting somewhere!

/ignored DX9 effects

[Bobb4]

I voted in favour of Dx9. I do not see why excluding players for not having the latest and greatest graphics cards is a good idea.
When Dx12 comes out do you want developers to shaft you?
Dx9 is still common in many games and just because you have backward compatable cards you do not notice.

Poorly written poll, there is no available answer for me.

[SPUDLEY1977]

Here in stalingrad we insist that going backverds is more modern. So please disregard the rest of the vorldt and focus on stonehenge obelisks for our use of this cliffs of clover.

Krushchev is our true god and savior

[Pudfark]

I don't care who ya are....that's funny right there.