I have an opportunity to but a new GeForce 4 4600 Ti for $200 CDN. It is not Direct X 9 compatiable, and I'm a gamer, so would this card be useless for future DX 9 games? I'm currently using a GeForce 4 MX 440 64mb, so the card would be a great performance boost, but I'm concerened it won't run future games. Anyone?

It WILL run the games, but you wont get ALL the graphical upgrades,

Yah and you may get some other unintended problems. You need the video card and driver to be compatible with DX9. Other people have had strange video interference even when not running games. Microsoft says it's backwards compatible ...they lie. The real kicker is if you have to revert back, you have to reinstall the OS. Third party removers cause more trouble than they're worth for DX9 removal

yeah i totally agree, even those that are 9x 'compatible' have problems with dx 9. i hear that sp1 for xp helps but not much. and the only way to go back from 9x is do a restore point with xp and hope that it works, it doesn't always. i don't know what is going to happen with games that 'require' 9x and 9x 'compatible' cards. my roomate has a geforce 4 ti4200 (64 mb version) and he has 9x and runs games all the time (don't know if any require 9x or not) and he says he has never had any problems. but i guess i am going to try and wait as long as i can till have i have to upgrade because it is going to be a pain

I have DirectX 9.0b installed on my P3 750MHZ running WinMe , and I have not had any problems due to this update ! B/4 I did the upgrade ,I had the Demo of Spiderman game , which requires DirectX 8.1 . I was running 8.0 at that time ,the Demo would still work ,except I would get stalls and white spaces ! My system was actually having more probs when I upgraded to 8.1 , thats why I decided to try 9.0. It stopped my PC from freezing up when playing certain ,graphic intense games !

The things reported running DX9 were unusual characters on the screen vertically and horizontally, horizontal lines and some drawing instability. Problems seems to be very hardware dependant. Since most computers are different in some way, the results vary.

DX9 ruined my computer. geforce4 ti4200 128mb.