These two items seem to be the hottest terms as far as latest video card and release of Direct X 9. So I was wondering if someone can explain in layman's term what these two things are. Vertex shaders ...

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Or more generically, how many games will use specific features from DirectX 8 and 9? I've got a friend who is thinking about what kind of graphics mojo he should have in a brand new laptop, and uh ...

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A programmable function in graphics cards that offers a programmer flexibility in rendering an image. The vertex shader is used to transform the attributes of vertices (points of a triangle) such as ...