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VIsta Aero effects not fully optimized with DX9 cards?!?!

Feb 8, 2007 4:43AM PST

Okay, in my latest issue of Computer Shopper it said somewhere that with DirectX 9 cards, the Aero effects of Vista look transparent, but with DirectX 10 cards, they look glassy and much more defined. Is this true? I thought the whole DirectX 9 and 10 thing concerned only games, but not the actual interface of Windows.

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