>I think Blitz3D is a great product, but it still needs to
>keep up with the Joneses, if only because a serious
>project I start today probably isn't going to get to
>market for at least a year, by which time every PC sold in
>the last 12 months will have DX9 hardware and if I want to
>stand out from the crowd I'd like to support it.
Most PC's are sold to the value/mainstream market where Radeon 9200, Geforce4 MX, Geforce 4 TI, and GeforceFX 5200 and GeforceFX 5600 will be the prefered choice... The 3 first are DX8.1 parts, the fourth is adequate in DX8.1, but seriously slow in DX9, and the last is DX9 but is outperformed in some respects by the TI series... So my guess is that DX8.1 cards will still be selling well into the next year, while DX9 cards get cheaper.
Remember that the value/mainstream segments is 80% of the market.
Andy
>keep up with the Joneses, if only because a serious
>project I start today probably isn't going to get to
>market for at least a year, by which time every PC sold in
>the last 12 months will have DX9 hardware and if I want to
>stand out from the crowd I'd like to support it.
Most PC's are sold to the value/mainstream market where Radeon 9200, Geforce4 MX, Geforce 4 TI, and GeforceFX 5200 and GeforceFX 5600 will be the prefered choice... The 3 first are DX8.1 parts, the fourth is adequate in DX8.1, but seriously slow in DX9, and the last is DX9 but is outperformed in some respects by the TI series... So my guess is that DX8.1 cards will still be selling well into the next year, while DX9 cards get cheaper.
Remember that the value/mainstream segments is 80% of the market.
Andy