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August 2, 2004 Link to this post
A possible way to increase PC framerates
A few days ago, Nick pointed out that Microsoft had released DirectX 9.0c, the next generation of DirectX. The end-user runtime is not installed via the normal Windows Update interface; you have to download it yourself, and run the installer. You'll be warned that it cannot be uninstalled, and that if you're using Windows ME or Windows XP you should set up a System Restore point before beginning. (This was enough for me to pass on it when Nick first mentioned it.) However, a number of folks on the Gearbox forums have installed this, with no noticeable ill effects, and there's a significant framerate boost for Halo PC/CE. (Folks noticed a 10 fps increase in the HaloPC timedemo... and I noticed a similar (but less quantifiable) increase in normal gameplay under Halo CE.) I'm not going to tell you to install this, because I have NO CLUE what the side effects might be - but the short-term data, at least with respect to Halo, look pretty promising. Check out the page, and decide for yourself! (Louis Wu 14:35:19 UTC)
