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07-02-2008, 04:58 AM
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|  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, 05:00 AM
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| Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oxford, UK
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| 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, 05:22 AM
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| Ultra Techie  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Perth, Australia
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 | 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, 05:41 AM
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| Re: Direct X10 Killed my card (RIP) Quote:
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, 06:06 AM
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| Ultra Techie Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Perth, Australia
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| 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.
__________________ Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling? I am 75% addicted to Counterstrike. What about you? |
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07-02-2008, 06:16 AM
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| Re: Direct X10 Killed my card (RIP) Sweet, I'll get on it.
__________________ Athlon X2 4800+ @ 3.00ghz, 2Gb Ram Transcend, EAH 3650 512MB GDDR3, Biostar NF520-A2 SE, 20x DVD-RW Lite Scribe DVD burner. Yeah I finally got the guts to get my CPU at 3ghz : D CPU Voltage at 1.35 Volts. Idle Temperature is a little high. So I m going to have to get a better heat sink soon. Maybe then I can get 3.2 stable without having to fry my motherboard. |
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07-07-2008, 02:04 AM
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| True Techie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Zealand
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| Re: Direct X10 Killed my card (RIP) Soulphire its not quite that simple. By doing that it is almost certain to corrupt the vista bootloader, heres some instructions How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) -- the step-by-step guide with screenshots
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07-07-2008, 03:32 AM
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| Re: Direct X10 Killed my card (RIP) If I were I would upgrade to this card Newegg.com - Foxconn 9600GT-512 GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards Much faster than you 8600GT GDDR2, and it is selling for a cheap price
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