Anybody else heard about that DirectX 9.1 beta rant?

Chris Boney · Post by **Chris Boney** » Tue May 28, 2002 3:23 pm

Today on the forums on http://www.elderscrolls.com I found a thread, stating in the headline, that Morrowind runs tons better with Directx 9.x beta. Unfortunately I couldn't read the thread, because Bethesda's server is really slow, and I haven't been able to load this page for the last two hours. Though I can remember, that the thread had quite some responses, a dozen or so, I wonder, if anybody is here who could affirm this ?

Thx in advance, Boney

Ares2382 · Post by **Ares2382** » Tue May 28, 2002 4:13 pm

don't know about the thread that you read on that forum cause the site seems to be down again, but I went to microsofts website and found no mention of directx 9.1.

Biljac · Post by **Biljac** » Tue May 28, 2002 7:18 pm

http://www.thedigitalresource.com/downl ... load&cid=6
ok I do not know much about this site but it appears there has been like 17305 dl's sp far. If someone is brave please report your findings

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Tue May 28, 2002 10:45 pm

BELCH!!!!!!

ahh..fosters....

will keep belching, cause we need to know

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Wed May 29, 2002 3:58 am

burp...

Biljac · Post by **Biljac** » Wed May 29, 2002 7:08 am

This needs to be done by someone with XP because it has the built in "System Restore Point" which enables you to reset back to a point before the install if something goes wrong. Hehe maybe I'll get brave today and backup my PC thus enabling me to do a wipe if it does a meltdown. Just takes so long to to backup, wipe, format, install 98SE and newest drivers. One of you XP guys could test it way faster

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed May 29, 2002 7:15 am

Windows offered that feature as far back as Win 98, though SCANREG wasn't exactly intuitive in its access or use.

Biljac · Post by **Biljac** » Wed May 29, 2002 7:37 am

Well I found an article on this beta. Number 1 its time limited till August 2002 meaning at that time you will have to reinstall your OS unless you are a registered tester for Microsoft. Heck here ya go, just read it yourself

http://twg.mikemth.de:1027/modules.php? ... e&artid=39

Chris Boney · Post by **Chris Boney** » Wed May 29, 2002 7:39 pm

*valiantly raises his hand for voluntary testing*
I did it, have XP, set the system restore point.. but the result was a bit disappointing, at least to me. MW just runs normally as before with the 9.0 beta, no mentionable FP increase as some others reportet. I have an athlon 1.3ghz, 256ram, geforce2mx with 64ram. I run MW in 1024*860 with AI very near, shadows completly off, sight max is really choppy, sight mininum results in 50 fps indoors and 28 outdoors. with sight maximum i get 11fps outdoors which is a bit .. well, not the best

Maybe somebody who has had a ton of fp increase could post his system specs + fps here, too please.

Boney

Biljac · Post by **Biljac** » Thu May 30, 2002 7:52 am

Thanks and this pretty much confirms what the reviewer also stated. Well not actually a review since this is a beta and should be treated as such Thanks again.