Umm is there something odd with these Direct X comparison screenshots lol

[woodyear99]

Saw this on gamesforwindows.com

Tell me if there is something odd with the screenshots, different games compared mean direct x was the reason graphics improved? 6 year release gap hmm? lol

http://imgur.com/3ougr.png


Original image at bottom of this page....

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/AboutGFW/Pages/DirectX10-a.aspx

[W1nTry]

What do you mean by odd woody?

[woodyear99]

The screenshots and caption imply that Direct X makes games look better. For that to be fair they would need to show screenshots from the same game with DX9 vs DX 10. Here all they did was show an OLD game vs a new game and bam DX10 was the dealmaker hehe.

[W1nTry]

Well yeah cause MS used DX10 as a selling point for Vista (which is rubbish) although the same effects or at least VERY similar ones can be done in DX9. A really good way to tell is use a game like UT3. That has code paths for both DX9 and DX10. There are differences and DX10 does seem to have advantages (now that it's matured).

[woodyear99]

Well yeah cause MS used DX10 as a selling point for Vista (which is rubbish) although the same effects or at least VERY similar ones can be done in DX9. A really good way to tell is use a game like UT3. That has code paths for both DX9 and DX10. There are differences and DX10 does seem to have advantages (now that it's matured).

My point exactly lol in this case they made a site showing benefits of DX10 based on pure rubbish. Some people on this site will think DX10 made Crysis look better than Halo 1.....they not even based on the same engine lawd.

[W1nTry]

That's marketing for ya XD