As said in the other thread...Do not believe Amazon release dates. Wait until an official word comes.

>>None. Point me to a link that says they are testing DX10>with>>DX10 compatable graphics cards.>>I am testing Vista beta2, with a 6600GT DX9 card, and it>deffinately says dx10 as the version that the system is using,>so it obviously has the ability to backward capacity to DX9 if>necessary. I wouldn,t worry as i'm sure msoft have and will>have all bases covered when necessary It doesn't matter what it says in Windows - that's your actual DirectX runtime files version, not what the video card actually supports. You can run Half Life 2 on a DX8 card for instance, but many of the shader effects and such are disabled and the game doesn't look or run good. Same will be true of trying to run native DX10 apps on old DX9 cards.

>As said in the other thread...>>>Do not believe Amazon release dates. Wait until an official>word comes. In fact, I've never heard anything "official" from MS as far as release dates concerned since FS98. There are always saying something like "end of summer or winter", but never state an exact date.

Thank you to Doug and Randy. @OHN- nobody will get the full effect of FSX until DX10 hardware is sitting on your desk or next to it. Sure the MSFS guys will tell you not to wait and that it will run fine on your computer with your current card using DX9 but all of them would agree (maybe not publically) that to see FSX in all its brilliance will take Vista/DX10 and the hardware to run it.

Nope, DX10 will require new hardware.When running with DX10 on a DX9 card it will revert to software emulation of DX9 functionality.

well said. I've seen release dates on Amazon for books that hadn't been written yet, constantly slipping as the guestimated date came and went without any print run being produced.

>Thank you to Doug and Randy. >>@OHN- nobody will get the full effect of FSX until DX10>hardware is sitting on your desk or next to it. Sure the MSFS>guys will tell you not to wait and that it will run fine on>your computer with your current card using DX9 but all of them>would agree (maybe not publically) that to see FSX in all its>brilliance will take Vista/DX10 and the hardware to run it.They have said it publicly.. It will only have all features enabled under Vista running DX10.That said even the latest cards are still only DX9 yet. My company just got some EN7950 Asus cards in, basically 2XNVidia's linked on one card with 1Gb of DDR3 memory, still only a DX9 card though.

now who on earth would think amazon would know the release date before Micosoft make an official announcementA little Bird tells me they are just guessing for surePeter

or would be allowed to go public with it before Microsoft themselves did even if they knew it (and Microsoft would be tough on them if they broke silence, up to and including scrapping them as a distributor).