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DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004) RC 0 Release

Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 01 July 2004 - 06:44 · 12 comments & 1824 views

The DirectX® Team is pleased to announce the release of DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004) - Release Candidate 0.

As a valued DirectX Beta Participant we ask that you immediately install the SDK and review its contents and report any bugs you find. Reporting bugs is critical to the releases' success. We have a very short review period between now and the final release of SDK. This will be your last and final opportunity to point out any problems with this release. Please take the time now to provide your bugs and feedback, so we may ship a Final Release without delay. This release contains the full DirectX SDK which features the RC0 of the DirectX 9.0c developer runtime.

We have a very short review period between now and the final release of DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004). Please take the time now to provide your bugs and feedback, so we may ship a Final Release without delay.

Thanks,
DirectX Team

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Areas of concentration in the DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004) RC0 release are:
- HLSL support for Pixel Shader & Vertex Shader 3.0
- Effects Framework performance improvements
- Pre computed Radiance Transfer improvements
- New Sample framework
- New & Updated Samples
- PIX tool for better debugging of Direct3D applications
- Introduction of the Preview Pipeline for easier content creation

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(2 replies) #1 Posted by iczman on 01 Jul 2004 - 06:45: wonder what eye pooping new features dx10 will have..

#2 Posted by Mister Lamar on 01 Jul 2004 - 06:59: 3D graphics for any video card

#3 Posted by RanCorX2 on 01 Jul 2004 - 07:39: does the directx control panel still come with the sdk?

#4 Posted by invaderzim_2004 on 01 Jul 2004 - 08:10: I wonder if there will be a newer version of the end-user DX9 runtime that may be released next couple of months or so.

(1 reply) #5 Posted by Cancer_ on 01 Jul 2004 - 08:18

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We have a very short review period between now and the final release of DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004).

By "very short" would you say a month, 2 months, half a month, maybe a week? I'm a DirectX developer and I'm looking forward to this release.

#5.1 Posted by anakinsolois on 01 Jul 2004 - 16:45: A month at most probably

#6 Posted by Jugalator on 01 Jul 2004 - 14:12: Hmm, anyone more thinking the term "RC" is getting abused lately?

But maybe Microsoft honestly think this exact release could be the version that's done without modifications? Still, I see many companies having up to a third and fourth release candidate. Either they're seriously misjudging how finished their software was after the beta, or they don't understand the concept of release candidates.

#7 Posted by tktino on 01 Jul 2004 - 14:39: Lets hope this time around it would work like it should. My last videocard "geforce burned out" New too. They blame tht the dx did it. But i dont know anything about hardware. So i have to blame dx

(1 reply) #8 Posted by Skwerl on 01 Jul 2004 - 15:00: Managed Direct3D rocks my ass! Can't wait till even more is ".Netified!"

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