DirectX 8 – RC 1 Released To Testers

Microsoft has reached what is expected to be the final release candidate for the next version of DirectX – DirectX 8. Release Candidate 1 was released to Microsoft's beta testers and is due to go gold as early as next week with a release in 2 weeks time.

It will be interesting to see how Direct X 8 will fair with current hardware, since the only graphics card that officially supports it is the ATI Radeon.