What directx are you using?

[Sven Niscadae]

I'm running it on a Dell laptop (2GHz (dual core), 2GB RAM, Integrated Intel video chipset that uses shared system memory up to 248MB) with Windows XP Professional & DirectX 9c. My game_options.txt is set to default (not pandadx9) and my graphic options within the game are set on their medium settings. The game looks fairly good and runs great. It gets a little jumpy when there's a ton of people in the same area but it'd take a few dozen ships to do that to me.

The game does run faster (on the seas) if I use the pandadx9 option but looks absolutely horrible. The water looks like massive blue blob. That itself I couldn't stand. However, while on land, the pandadx9 option makes the game rather jumpy.

I've honestly haven't had any problems running the game performance-wise, and my main bottleneck is my cruddy video card.

just out of curiosity has anyone actually tried direct x 10 for windows xp? there appears to be a version out there now...just wondering if anyone has some first hand knowledge.

DirectX 10 is only supported on Vista.