Video Cards????

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Do the new cards that support DX10 and Windows Vista run on Windows XP and DX9?

That will depend on the manufacturer's defaults. If a card comes with DX10 already bundled, it may not support DX9, but you will have to check the mfg's support site for driver downloads for Vista anyway, and there may be an older compatible driver among their available downloads. Just checked my favorite hardware shops, and there isn't much left for AGP slots...PCI-Express rules the day; may be time to upgrade your comp

EDIT: I was only looking for ATI AGP cards in the X1x series; there are quite a few other cards for AGP8X, both ATI & NVidia chipsets, for under $200US, both in 256Mb & 512Mb memory config's. Only a few of these are touted as ready for DX10; check out newegg.com or zipzoomfly.com for spec's.

I recently got a nVidia 7600GT 256mb running on AGP (my crappy old motherboard doesn't have PCI-E nor LGA775). IMO it's one of the best nVidia 7-series AGP cards. Runs gr8!

i just got a new PC with 755 and PCI-E 16x. Tis a beauty.

Pentium D 2.80Ghz
1Gb ADATA Gaming RAM
160GB RAID 0 (2x80gb)
ATi Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB PCI-E 16x
DVD+RW Drive
500W Power Unit
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Mobo

Wait till i get a screenshot of The orange box games. You'll piss yourself seeing the graphics

eh, this is my pc (2+yrs old btw). got it really cheap (for like 200$)

MotherBoard: Asus P4D800X or something like that (No LGA775 = no modern, power-saving multicore CPUs, no uber-overclocking, no PCI-E, no nothing...)
CPU: Intel Celeron D ( <- Like the cheapest u can get) 2.4 GHz
RAM: 1.5GB (1.0 + 0.5) 533MHz
GPU: Club3D nVidia 7600GT 256MB - This+RAM cost like the whole PC when I got it
DVD+-RW/DL whatever (slowly dying)
80GB 7200RPM SATA-I HDD (lol i've got a 160GB iPod)

so actually it's a piece of crap, but runs all games (except crysis) on the lowest graphics quite well And The Orange Box is on MAX without AA.

FLYBYU...it should work fine. But as Cent has said, sure as the world we indorse it , it will not work. Here is hoping for the best. I believe it will be just fine.

I'm running a dual boot system (XP Pro and Vista) and I have a Nvidia GTS 8800 installed and I run Dx9 on XP and I run dx9 & dx 10 on Vista (depending on the game).

Dual Core 6800 Extreme (clocked to 3 Ghz each)
2Gigs of Ram
Nvidia GTS 8800
Asus mother Board w/sli capability
a DVD/CD burner
A DVD reader
700 Watts of power
and a little over a teribit of memory (4 360 gig drives with 16 mb buffers0

If we gonna post rigs, i'll just say that my 2,5 years old gf 6600 still rocks due to my modifications. Too bad that the TV-out get burnout

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Originally posted by FLYBYU
Do the new cards that support DX10 and Windows Vista run on Windows XP and DX9?

if it is an agp card, it will work with xp and dx9, no worries. there is not a single manufacturer that didn't enable their agp versions for xp and dx9, since it would b a suicide on the market.
u may be needing to dl drivers from chipset manufacturer, since card manufacturer may not ship it with drivers for xp, but that is not a problem, since one should always use newest working drivers possible, and those r regularly not shipped with equipment.