Conflicting launches: DirectX 9 and ATI's "NVidia
Only months ago, DirectX 9 was expected to be available by September, but now, according to industry sources,it is not likely to be around until early October. This will be quite a while after ATI's "NVidia-buster", the R300, reminding us of what happened with their Radeon 8500. It was distributed with with the beta version of DirectX 8.1, which caused you to either re-install Windows or do quite a bit of registry modifying, just to install the new API (application program interface). As for ATI's mid-July launch of the R300 and the RV250, it is not known how ATI will solve this.
MadOnion's PCMark 2003 will be out with, not before, the launch of DX9.
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