Thanks xStainDx...NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that the new NVIDIA GeForceĀ FX and NVIDIA Quadro graphics processing units (GPUs) are compatible and compliant with the Microsoft DirectX 9.0 application programming interface (API). DirectX 9.0, the latest version of Microsoft"s suite of multimedia application programming interfaces, offers advances in graphic technology that will make it significantly easier for game developers to create 3D immersive titles. When that content is played back on NVIDIA GeForce FX GPUs, the result will be visually stunning 3D worlds and life-like characters.
"NVIDIA and Microsoft are striving for the common goal of enabling game developers to create theater-quality, Hollywood-style cinematic effects for desktop PC games and applications," said Dan Vivoli, vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. "DirectX 9.0 API and the GeForce FX GPU combine to create the most significant advancement in achieving that goal in almost a decade."
"DirectX 9.0, the standard in development platforms, combined with hardware technology of the GeForce FX reduces the workload for developers and ultimately helps deliver cinematic-quality Windows-based games," said Dean Lester, general manager of Windows Graphics and Gaming Technologies at Microsoft Corporation. "Developers now have the ability to render stunning visual effects within software applications by using DirectX 9.0 vertex shader and pixel shaders in the GeForce FX."