id Tech 5, Still Alive!

I'm sure most people who say that said the same about XP when it was released. I dare say that in two years, most of us will be using Vista and looking back on XP in the same way we do Win95 today.

I certainly won't install Vista on my current computer - and I still see some life left in it.

I was under the influence that DX is the ruitines for D3D, and isn't really necessary for OpenGL. And I was told somewhere that DX9 only were used for something regarding the sound in Doom3.

But I'm no programmer.

Graf Zahl said:

What a horrible thought - being forced to use Windows Vista... :(

Or Windows at all. Id Software wouldn't do that, though; at least not with Carmack still in charge of the engine. Name one id game since Doom that hasn't had a linux release.

kristus said:

And I was told somewhere that DX9 only were used for something regarding the sound in Doom3.

You were told wrong, probably by some ignorant fanboy. Doom3 can work on DirectX 6.1 with sound.

Even better.