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GF 5000 & 6000

Don't you mean

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Fx 5000 & 6000

The GeForce 6 series (the 6000 you reference there) are NOT FX architecture GPUs. There's so much different in the arch that you can't call it an FX.

Also, GF 6 cards are shader model 3.0.

Quote:Original post by Instigator
@Will F, I found this quote in your link to the book

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Officially, Microsoft's DirectX 9.0 now only supports versions of Visual Studio 7.0 (i.e., Visual Studio .NET 2002) or higher.

However, I'm confused because I've read somewhere else that I can use my "Dev-C++" compiler.

Can someone please explain to me what this is all about?

I don't know anytning about Dev-C++, but you can get Visual C++ 2005 Express for free and it's great. You get MS's compiler (which optimizes just as good in Express as it does in Pro/Team edition) so you won't have to worry about DX compatability problems. Plus it has a super nice IDE.

As far as your original question, go ahaid with DX9 since the cards for that are cheap and you don't need to upgrade to Vista, like you would have to do with DX10 (plus the GeForce 8800 GTS/GTX are not cheap cards, although well worth it - I've been using one for months now at work, shortly after tape-out :).