Mac/Bootcamp and DirectX 9 vs. 11

[tcjsavannah]

Howdy. I started up my copy of Civ V during a free few minutes at work and noticed that I could only run it in DirectX9. I didn't know why until I saw on another thread that DirectX 11 is only available with Windows 7.

I am on a MacBook Pro with a 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics card with 512 MB, running Windows XP through BootCamp.

My question is - is anyone on a similar machine running Windows 7 and getting good performance with DirectX 11? I don't want to upgrade to Windows 7 but if the graphics are significantly better, I might invest in it. Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks!

 

[civ_king]

your GPU doesn't support DX 11

 

[Welnic]

I think that even if the GPU doesn't support 11 they still run better using it. I can try with a couple of desktops that I have that can boot both. Once I get it on my MBP I can try 9 and 10/11 in Win7.

 

[Minmaster]

you cannot run dx11 without the newest generation video cards... and even then dx11 performance on most games that do offer it is horrible. just stay with dx9.

 

[civ_king]

Go with Direct X 9. It is a simple as that!

 

[planetary]

The DX10/11 option was unavailable to me, too. This post fixed the problem for me.

 

[tcjsavannah]

Fair enough. I'm annoyed that the default setting of the diplomacy screen is a screenshot instead of the animated leaders, but so far that's the only thing that I've noticed is lacking graphics-wise.