When nvidia is gonna release the new gfx cards with support dx 10.1?

They didn't send us any, so I guess they still aren't out yet

I'd say after the final release of Vista's Service Pack 1, if really none are out yet. The difference between hardware support for DX10.1 doesnt seem at all interesting or even a selling point, apart from the probable higher performance one should already get even with non-dx10.1 games. DX10.1 in itself seems more like an excuse to sell a new generation of GPUs, than something actually indispensable.

I will kill MS if my card won't support DX 10.1.

As has been said multible times, DX10.1 is a minor update and all DX10 cards will work fine with 10.1

As rumors go, NVidia will most likely release their DX10.1 card in the first half of next year. Probably about the time of Vista SP1 or a bit after.

From what I understand, DX10.1 has additional requirements which were removed from DX10 so that the Video Card companies could claim DX10 compliance (due to MS being lobbied to remove them from the specification by the Video Card companies, they probably didn't care because this allowed for more Vista DX10 compatible cards for release). DirectX 10.1 cards are DX10 compliant but not the other way around (don't expect to run DirectX10.1 code paths on a DX10 card, this is just like DX9.0b [SM 2.0] cards vs 9.0c cards [SM 3.0]). As for new features/requirements, you can read the DirectX 10.1 portion of this review for the R670 (ignoring the rest if you'd like.). Per the review, Anti-aliasing will now work with Deferred Rendering and according to this article from the Inq, DX10.1 makes it more efficient to obtain the data from the sub-samples to perform anti-aliasing.

This post was last modified: 11-26-2007 01:00 AM by Andrets.

Promise? *_*

But has anything been said about the 9xxx cards? Launch dates or something?

I think they are more focused on marketing the 8xxx series at the moment since there is no word on the 9 series.