DX9 vs DX10-DX9 water and bloom

Acceleration and SP2

PTaylor's WebLog — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:00:03 GMT

Overview Acceleration has RTM’ed. Acceleration Pack contains the SP2 fixes; including both DX9 and DX10

re: DX9 vs DX10-DX9 water and bloom

Russell E. Todd — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:38:24 GMT

I don't know what bloom is? How about a nice simple explanation.

thanks.

re: DX9 vs DX10-DX9 water and bloom

Samo — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:04:42 GMT

Hi Russell,

Bloom and HDR tends to increase the contrast between dark and bright areas of the scene, making excessively bright parts of the scene such as a window in a dark room appear more realistic. The window would almost bloom with light and show a sort of glow.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_(shader_effect) for more details.

Cheers.

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Crowsnest — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:48:04 GMT

Only "Game-Gimmicks".............not worth to buy.

Just my two cents.

Regards

Crowsnest

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David — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:12:41 GMT

I trully think that ACES and MS has to focus more on addressing the FPS issues even in DX9 before DX10 features.

Given the adoption rate of Vista is next to nill, and even MS has extended support period for XP as nobody is buying Vista.

I have a dual-core 2.6ghz CPU, 4 gigs of DDR2-800 ram and a EvGA 7900GTX card. I admit not state of the art but not to shabby and the FPS even after SP1 is modest at best.

Now addons can slow-down even FS9 but the fact that even med-high settings in FSX using default aircraft is almost a frame killer, getting DX9 right should be the first priority.

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Joseph — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:01:26 GMT

Will it make the sim X run better on some of our slower computers?

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Mike — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:03:57 GMT

Wish you could explain the system in layman term so us "stupid" computer people that just like to play flight sim what it will do for us. Will I be able to open up the scenery, see more, and still use the flight sim where it will move....???

FSX - SP2 and DX10 Performance

SebbyLive — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:10:52 GMT

FSX - SP2 and DX10 Performance

DirectX10: The Next Generation in Gaming

Windows Vista Team Blog — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:50:53 GMT

Backup a second ... So what is DirectX? Wikipedia says DirectX is a collection of APIs for easily handling

re: DX9 vs DX10-DX9 water and bloom

Chris — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:38:51 GMT

Many have come to the conclusion that DX10 has nothing new, in terms of the effects its able to produce, the volumetrics, and the HDR because after all DirectX is software, just like your GFX card drivers.