What card do you have now and what games are you going to want to play.
Games like Halflife 2 and Doom III may not even be playable. HL2 I
understand can be run with eye candy off, but whats the point. I believe
HL2 is a dx9 game and Doom III 8.1. Either way, if you wand to play some of
the newer titles, a system upgrade, let alone a vid card upgrade, may be in
order.
"Dick Trace" wrote in message
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I have a dx7 capable videocard.

Will i be losing too much eye candy when playing dx8 or the newer dx9
games?

Has anyone compared the visual differences in real-world games that
support dx7 up to dx9? Screenshots?

Is OpenGL visual quality (eye candy) the same on DX7-DX9 cards?

Thanks.