Quote: Original post by Driv3MeFar
[sad] That's disappointing, but I'll probably be too busy with school and whatnot to play around with DX10 for now anyway.

To those who are interested, I went with the Asus G1. I was tempted to get the Sager 5760, but in the end I didn't want to pay the extra $400 for essentially just a better video card.

That was the same position I was in and the same choice I made. The gaming experience outside of HL2 and CSS hasn't been very positive though since I'm still running Vista Home Premium. The driver situation sucks hard. Oblivion runs very slow even at 800x600 with draw distances set to low. The Dawn of War games won't even start since I'm supposedly missing some sort of spooge driver which the only way to fix is to update the video driver. But since NVidia isn't releasing any Vista Go drivers and the ones from Asus are rather old, I'm left hunting through laptopvideo2go.com for something that will work while still maintaining decent frame rates.

Kudos to the source engine for running well on just about whatever you throw at it.

I believe Source has at least five different code paths:

1) DirectX 7
2) DirectX 8
3) DirectX 9 sm 2.0 NVIDIA
4) DirectX 9 sm 2.0 ATI
5) DirectX 9 sm 3.0

It may be that it down-grades to DX7 or DX8, and thus runs better.

Compatibility is, in general, just a lot of annoying testing, hacking at bugs, and sweating the details and trade-offs. And, yes, major kudos to those who actually do all that hard work!

Quote: Original post by hplus0603
I believe Source has at least five different code paths:

1) DirectX 7
2) DirectX 8
3) DirectX 9 sm 2.0 NVIDIA
4) DirectX 9 sm 2.0 ATI
5) DirectX 9 sm 3.0

It may be that it down-grades to DX7 or DX8, and thus runs better.

Compatibility is, in general, just a lot of annoying testing, hacking at bugs, and sweating the details and trade-offs. And, yes, major kudos to those who actually do all that hard work!

I'm almost 100% certain it isn't dropping to DX8 or DX7. The visuals still look excellent.