DirectX 10
is not that easy as Microsoft wants you believe. It promised some of the cool
things such as solving the object overhead and Shader Model 4.0 also known as
Unified Shader but it looks like all the games based on DirectX 10 are severely
delayed.
Crysis for
example is now scheduled for Q3 2007 announcement and late last year we all
expected it as a Vista launch title. Hellgate
London is also pushed toward middle of the year and even Microsoft itself can
not shape up the Flight simulator X, DirectX 10 version.
All DirectX
10 games share the same thing, they are very hard to program and it much harder
than anyone originally expected.
You will
have to satisfy with soon to come, STALKER as this is the best you will see in
the next few months. Still, Stalker is DirectX 9 game only.