DirectX 8.1/9?!


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Can someone tell me when DirectX8.1/9 will be out?!

Or... be even seksier, and give me a link to a later build than 648 for win2k?!

Thanks in advance.

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8.1 is meant to be due out October [25th - same time as WinXP is released]... though I haven't seen anything to confirm this.

DirectX9 will probably come out NEXT year [2002] and will possibly be released with Longhorn... but that's a total guess.

-mortensenj

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From: Philip Taylor [MS]

Of course XP will ship with DX8.1. After that, the DX team will focus on 9x/2K *specific* issues only and finalize DX8.1 for those "downlevel" platforms. Look at it like this: DX8.1 is written for Windows XP, and then "ported" to Windows 9x/2000. Obviously, the XP release will be finished first. DX 8.1 runtime will ship in WXP. We are close to RC mode, but there is still work on the down-level OS's (W9x, W2K ) and its still a bit before the SDK and the downlevel OS's runtimes will ship

Hope this helps :smart:

DirectX 8.1 Interim 3 (Build 682) for Win2K

DirectX 8.1 Interim 3 (Build 682) for Win9x/ME

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