i just cant decide on what to do

[casecutter]

The video card will not use DX9 effects. You can install DX9c on any PC with any video card. But you must have a video card that is DX9 compatible for the DX9 effects to work. Games are coded to run with DX8 and DX9. Future games will probably be coded for only DX9 and DX10 so your current DX8 card will not be able to run them. As I said, DX8/9/10 is the actual architecture of the GPU on the video card. There is no way possible for software to change that. It is part of the hardware.

[spawn666999]

i know it wont run it and my 3d card or the cpu is the bottleneck of my system i have 768MB of pc 133 memory (yes i know it's junk) and i cant even run NFS WM on 640x480 with all on low and if i check my memory status i still got 100-200 left so i cant wait till it's my Bday so i can axe it all and get a computer to play games on

[Munkul]

spawn, when you say "its running DX9 on a GF2" that rally means youve installed dx9 which has dx 1 through 9 (LOL?) in it. your card will only run the highest dx its capable of.

[spawn666999]

yea found that out a lil after i posted that but i already decided what to do get one of the xfx 6800 xt's and save my money for nvidia's 8xxx series which i hope will have DX10 support and maby if i got enough a DX 10 physics card

[casecutter]

You will also need Windows Vista for DX-10 as that will be the only Windows OS that will support DX-10.

[spawn666999]

yea i know vista x64 is actualy the first and i think the only OS that im gooing to buy