Directx 9 not just for video...(maybe)

[timmyqwest]

I see fights brewing all the time about how video games require you to install dx9 and such and video this video that...blah blah blah.

Isnt a large part of directx sound too?

so like in one thread i read about GTA vice city being a directx 9 game...couldnt this involve the sound too

I could be wrong

[zabomb4163]

don't think so.

i don't believe any dx9 games exist either

[timmyqwest]

run/dxdiag

sound

[pip]

Well directSound really hasn't had many improvements since DX7 mainly just marginal things, Direct 3D has really been the main aspect over the past few years

[HotKoala]

Video, sound, network, misc inputs(joystick, microphone)

Anything needed by the game/OS to communicate with the hardware.

[timmyqwest]

exactly so when a game asks you install dx9 then perhaps it has nothing to do with video

[Oni]

Originally posted by zabomb4163
don't think so.

i don't believe any dx9 games exist either

I think Splinter Cell is optimized for DX9