DirectX 9 Features

[Sabastian]

Over at San Jose McEnery Convention Center, Microsoft DirectX Day was held during the Game Developers Conference. Charles Boyd talks about the Next Generation 3D Gaming Technology with more details of DirectX 9 and did a demo of the new technology. DirectX 9 will be formally released in year 2003. Here's are some features of the upcoming DirectX 9.0 :
Displacement mapping
Vertex Shaders 2.0
Pixel Shaders 2.0
40bit colors (10 hundred million colors)

When do you guys think DX9 hits the pavement?

http://www.vr-zone.com/#2221

 

[ben6]

That's the 2nd source that says 2003. (Impress Japan posted the same date) . Interesting...

 

[LeStoffer]

That's the 2nd source that says 2003. (Impress Japan posted the same date) . Interesting...

They picked the info from Impress. So we still needs some verification of the 2003 release.

Although something fishy is going I don't think that MS would be talking about a target Q3 2002 release if things were slipping so much (I think it was last month Taylor stated the Q3 2002).

Edit:

From: "Philip Taylor [MS]" <directx@microsoft.com> Sent: 1/22/2002 3:59:01 PM

Q3 2002 is the current target, but that is an estimate.

Regards, LeStoffer