What new features does DirectX 8 incorporate?
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What new features does DirectX 8 incorporate over DirectX 7? And will games made using DX8 look better and run faster than DX7 games?
-- Ivyn --
The programmable pipeline is the biggest advancement from DX7 - 8. As for looking better and running faster, well that depends on how you use it. Read the SDK documentation, theres a section on DX8''s differences to DX7 IIRC.
Isn''t it a little late to be asking this question now, just a couple of months before DX9? 
"It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense. They thus become part of the armies of the night, the purveyors of nitwittery, the retailers of intellectual junk food, the feeders on mental cardboard, for their ignorance keeps them from distinguishing nectar from sewage."
Isaac Asimov
"It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense. They thus become part of the armies of the night, the purveyors of nitwittery, the retailers of intellectual junk food, the feeders on mental cardboard, for their ignorance keeps them from distinguishing nectar from sewage."
Isaac Asimov
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