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07-02-2008, 05:58 AM
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Biostar Stole my heart Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Under Zmatts bed Posts: 2,175
|  Direct X10 Killed my card (RIP)
Direct X10 is KILLING my crappy 8600GT w/512mb gddr2. Like honestly, I started Crysis and the temperature rose up to 90degrees Celsius in seconds. Is there any way I can use Direct X9 instead? Because I will be looking forward to getting a new video card soon. But at the moment I just don't have the money for it.
So is it possible to play my games on Direct X9 any more or what? This only started occurring after I recently upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate. Before then Vista Home Basic would ask me which I would want to start the game in.
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07-02-2008, 06:00 AM
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Lord Techie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 6,354
| Re: Direct X10 Killed my card (RIP)
right click on crysis and click launch dx9
It will stress your card just as much as dx10 will though, that's just how Crysis is 
also 90c is fine, get a fan blowing on it if you are concerned though.
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07-02-2008, 06:22 AM
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01001100011011110110110 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 1,946
| Re: Direct X10 Killed my card (RIP)
I used to be running the 8600GT 256MB version, and I found I could play it on high-medium settings pretty well (up to the end, when even on low it lagged).
If you want a nice, not major, increase in performance, then dual boot XP and play crysis on that. Worked wonders for me.
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07-02-2008, 06:41 AM
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Biostar Stole my heart Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Under Zmatts bed Posts: 2,175
| Re: Direct X10 Killed my card (RIP)
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Originally Posted by S0ULphIRE  I used to be running the 8600GT 256MB version, and I found I could play it on high-medium settings pretty well (up to the end, when even on low it lagged).
If you want a nice, not major, increase in performance, then dual boot XP and play crysis on that. Worked wonders for me. | How do I dual boot then? Cause Vista is **** on wheels when it comes to gaming.
XP would make my comp run like 10 times faster compared to Ultimate. Its not that Ultimate is bad but it needs a pretty nice computer to actually enjoy it and my computers just average.
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07-02-2008, 07:06 AM
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01001100011011110110110 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 1,946
| Re: Direct X10 Killed my card (RIP)
First (obviously) you need a copy of xp.
Then create a partition for xp, separate from the vista partition.
Install xp onto your new partition, and that's basically all.
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07-02-2008, 07:16 AM
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Biostar Stole my heart Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Under Zmatts bed Posts: 2,175
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Sweet, I'll get on it.
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07-07-2008, 04:32 AM
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Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,480
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