DX9 and VS10

folkboat · Post by **folkboat** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:02 pm

Looking to upgrade to VS10 from a VS8............

Current machine is running DX9 (on-board) graphics, I have upgraded the memory too 1gig, and added a USB drive for backup

If I decide to upgrade the video card should/must it support DX9, the box I am running on has no AGP slots, only PCI. Finding a PCI video card that supports DX9 (at a reasonable cost) is getting increasingly difficult.

I guess the question is what affect would a new DX8 video card have???

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:04 pm

TDK1044 · Post by **TDK1044** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:18 pm

VS10 will install DX9 for you, and maddrummer is correct; ATI offer excellent PCI video cards which fully support DX9. These cards start at about $50.

folkboat · Post by **folkboat** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:29 pm

Thank you both for your responses..........

The system is an Emachines Celeron 2.9mhz with 512, upgrading to 1gig.

Running XP/SP2 DX9 with on-board Intel graphics. Pretty good little box abeit noisey. OTOH when multiple apps are running it is slow - I attribute that to only having 512mb of memory. The on-board graphics uses system ram for screen repaints.

So if the additional memory does not significantly improve performance a new processor and/or video card is in order. The video card would be the most cost effective option IMHO.

In looking for a possible video card upgrade (PCI only - no AGP slot on mother board) it occured to me should it be capable of DX9 and would VS10 benefit from that....I don't know - does anyone know??

The only reason for the VS10 upgrade is to author DVD slide shows using AC3 audio. VS8-SE has only MPEG2 & LPCM.

I like Video Studio and feel comfortable with it - DVDMF does not have enough "bells & whistles".

Best regards