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omegadox · November 17th, 2008

I am running Vista and I have DX 10.1, and Dolphin still uses the Direct3D 9 API, why? because the DLL plugin only makes calls to the D3D9 API, not D3D8 or D3D10 or 10.1. For Dolphin to use Direct3D 10.1, it has to be coded to use that newer API.

November 17th, 2008	#12 (permalink)
omegadox ****** Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,188	I am running Vista and I have DX 10.1, and Dolphin still uses the Direct3D 9 API, why? because the DLL plugin only makes calls to the D3D9 API, not D3D8 or D3D10 or 10.1. For Dolphin to use Direct3D 10.1, it has to be coded to use that newer API.