DX9 / XP discussion

[Volksieg]

Originally Posted by yakaddict

Unless there is a very minor crowd of people who seem to prefer running in dx9 mode on dx10/11 video cards for perhaps minor preformance improvements....

Yep! And the funny thing is... in a lot of games with DX11 and DX9 support, running it in DX11 will actually give much better performance all round so the benefits of running it in DX9 are, essentially, illusory.

I won't pretend I know, or even begin to understand, why that actually is.