DirectX 10 hardware unable to run upcoming DirectX 10.1

Microsoft recently announced that DirectX 10 hardware (read: that graphics card you paid a small fortune for) will not support 10.1, the next version of DirectX.

The announcement was made at Siggraph 2007, the annual international conference on graphics technology run by the Association for Computing Machinery. DirectX 10 currently comes bundled with Windows Vista operating system and is available for download. Much like Windows XP, the first Service Pack (SP1, currently in beta testing) will soon become available to update and improve various aspects of the faulty OS, including the requirement to upgrade from DirectX 10 to 10.1 which will be supported by newer hardware.

The good news is that DierctX 10.1 might be relatively useless in terms of gamers’ needs…