billypnats Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I'm thinking about upgrading, but I also like to save $$$ for more important things like books, I have a 4850 and windows 7 is comming out tomorrow. which mean DX11!!! YAY!!!Can someone show me links or just tell if 4800 series will support the main features of dx11 such as Better watercompute shadershardware tessalationbasically the stuff they advertise about dx11 THank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I'm not sure that it would support it?. they are only dx10 cards, but i think they would take advantage of it though. I'm a beta tester of 7 and it has a early build of dx11 and i do notice a difference in gameplay with my 2 9800gtx, like the lighting effects in Fallout 3. There isn't anything right now that would take advantage of dx11, maybe if you were in graphics design you probably would use it, but thats it. wait 2 years then they might use it, they are just getting started with dx 10 now, even though its been out for a good while now. Resident Evil 5 probably has the best dx10 coding to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pronam Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Sure they are compatible. No you can't use it, the 5000 series could however. If you mean you're afraid it will not run, that's not the case at all...It's just a huge improvement in speed concerning the graphics in win7 itself..but I don't think you'll miss out anything if you have dx 10 and there are but a few games that support it and those aren't that well known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billypnats Posted October 25, 2009 Author Share Posted October 25, 2009 o i see, I have another question, I have 2gigs of 800mhz ram, is that recommended for windows 7? I'll be playing games like fallout 3, crysis, stalker, etc. should I get more ram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Your ram is good enough, it requires 1gb ram so you meet the system requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illiad86 Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 uhm lol they should of upped that to 2 or even 4GB....because Windows 7 uses almost a GB just sitting on the desktop. Most games will use anywhere from 1.5GB to 2GB...so I highly suggest 4GB. It's like with Windows XP...minimum RAM requirement was 256MB...which in actuality it uses 350MB of RAM just doing nothing....it's like wtf guys, do you want us to use the paging file and wonder why are computers are dragging? Insanely though...newegg skyrocketed their prices on 4GB of DDR2 800 not very long ago :( I payed $50 6 months ago for 4GB now it's up to $90. But that kinda stuff happens when new RAM comes out. 2GB will run about $50 nowadays, I just purchased 2GB not too long ago for my mama's computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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