which cards can do directX 9?

ATI Radeon 9200, 9600, 9800.
nVidia 5200, 5600, and 5900.
These, with their various suffixes, support DX9 with the required circuitry
on board.

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DaveW



"bill" wrote in message
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I am totally confused:
Bought a game for my son: Lego Bionicles (PC). Per
the box and website, it requires DirectX 9.0.
The box also says ATI Radeon w/32MB or NVidia..
http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=14683

OK. I need to get him a new graphics card
(currently cheap built-in graphics, but there is
an AGP slot.)

When I look at the ads, only the new ($$$) say the
are DirectX 9. (And obviously nothing with only
32MB of graphics memory is in that category.)
Can older and/or less expensive boards support
DirectX 9.0?

As the box says it only needs a card with 32MB, I
doubt this is an overly demanding game. What cards
would you recommend for up to $75 that would
support DirectX 9. And how much more can I get if
I go to $100. (Bearing in mind that this computer
will probably get replaced in ~2 years and we will
move on to PCI Express, etc.)

Thanks in advance.

Except that Nvidia cards fail to render DirectX 9 correctly in hardware
requiring driver fixes to attemp to overcome these deficiencies, and
resulting in relatively poor performance. Nvidia is going to need a
redesign of their GPU which I believe they are working on.

JK

"DaveW" wrote in message
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ATI Radeon 9200, 9600, 9800.
nVidia 5200, 5600, and 5900.
These, with their various suffixes, support DX9 with the required
circuitry
on board.

--
DaveW



"bill" wrote in message
...
I am totally confused:
Bought a game for my son: Lego Bionicles (PC). Per
the box and website, it requires DirectX 9.0.
The box also says ATI Radeon w/32MB or NVidia..
http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=14683

OK. I need to get him a new graphics card
(currently cheap built-in graphics, but there is
an AGP slot.)

When I look at the ads, only the new ($$$) say the
are DirectX 9. (And obviously nothing with only
32MB of graphics memory is in that category.)
Can older and/or less expensive boards support
DirectX 9.0?

As the box says it only needs a card with 32MB, I
doubt this is an overly demanding game. What cards
would you recommend for up to $75 that would
support DirectX 9. And how much more can I get if
I go to $100. (Bearing in mind that this computer
will probably get replaced in ~2 years and we will
move on to PCI Express, etc.)

Thanks in advance.

"Vellu" wrote in message
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The Bionicle game doesn't need a DirectX 9.0 card. Just one with the
latest
drivers compatible with Directx 9.0, not necessarily a Directx 9.0 card.
I
doubt the game would need such a card.


Precisely. DirectX 9 Compatible is not the same thing as DX9 Compliant:
compatible=works with software, compliant=fully supported via hardware. I
believe the level of hardware support required is DX8.1.


I am using a ATI 7500, 64MB and running DirectX 9.0b. When running dxdiag
there is no problems with it but I do have the latest drivers for the board.
I had a program that required DirectX9 therefore I installed it. Also you
will need to find out what your AGP bus will support 1X/2X/4X/8X. And get a
board that will work in your computer.