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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (169844)	8/23/2002 12:50:53 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 186894

wbmw, I disagree. The difference between benchmark that uses DirectX 7 and 8 must be that the DirectX 8 benchmark uses features (Function calls, objects, etc) not available in DirectX 7. The same way, DirectX 7 (Or 6, 5, 4, 3) program can never call functions that only appeared in version 8. Your point that DX8 or 9 driver may accelerates all previous games is valid, but irrelevant, since the system being tested already has DirectX 8 (or whatever is the latest) installed when testing DirectX 7 based 3dmark 2001. Joe