Rumor: DirectX 9.0L Will Replace DirectX 9.0c
Fudo over at The Inq. is reporting that Microsoft is going to call the upcoming version of DirectX, DirectX 9.0L. We already reported nearly two weeks ago that the upcoming DirectX release supports Shader Model 4.0, but we didn’t know the naming schema.
You will remember that Nvidia was pressing Microsoft to call its last revision of DirectX, DirectX 9.1 but Microsoft decided to simply add a letter C to its existing DirectX 9.0 name. This currently available DirectX 9.0c features support for Shader model 3.0 and Nvidia thought that upgrade from Shader model 2.0 would deserve at least 9.1 prefix. Now Microsoft plans to do the same thing. It will call its next generation DirectX featuring Shader model 4.0, DirectX 9.0L. We don’t know when the company plans to make this new marchitecture available but we expect that this will happen sometimes trough 2006. It’s still too early to shift to Shader Model 4.0 as Nvidia and ATI won’t have Shader model 4.0 hardware until middle of 2006.
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