Calculate D3D9's age dynamically. Yes, really.

Author: WallSoGB

falloutnv.html

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ <h3>Welcome!</h3>
                     <h3>Why?</h3>
                     </p>
                     <p>
-                        Let's be honest here, the engine did not age well. The renderer is based on now 22 year old DirectX 9, which fails to fit-in with modern GPUs and Windows.
+                        Let's be honest here, the engine did not age well. The renderer is based on now <span id="d3d9_year">22</span> year old DirectX 9, which fails to fit-in with modern GPUs and Windows.
                         It's extremely inefficient and CPU bound, has glaring issues with display modes, memory handling and overall stability.
                         <br>
                         As for Bethesda's code - it also fails (horribly) to scale well with modern processors, something that you can see even in their latest titles.

javascript.js

@@ -1,12 +1,22 @@
 window.addEventListener('resize', sizeChanged);
 document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
+    setD3D9Year();
     updateProgressBarAndFadeIn();
     createImageHandlers();
     markActiveSection();
     refreshRateCalculations(document.getElementById("rrRTSS"));
 });
 window.onscroll = updateProgressBarAndFadeIn;
 
+function setD3D9Year(){
+    var d3d9Year = document.getElementById("d3d9_year");
+    var d3d9Date = new Date(2001, 8, 24); // Windows XP RTM date - API is finalized by then
+    var today = new Date();
+    var diff = today - d3d9Date;
+    var years = Math.floor(diff / 31536000000);
+    d3d9Year.innerHTML = years;
+}
+
 function sizeChanged() {
     var sidebar = document.getElementsByClassName("left-sidebar");
     if (sidebar && sidebar.length > 0) {

sitemap.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 	<url>
 		<loc>https://performance.moddinglinked.com/falloutnv.html</loc>
 		<priority>1.00</priority>
-		<lastmod>2024-12-14</lastmod>
+		<lastmod>2025-01-09</lastmod>
 	</url>
 	<url>
 		<loc>https://performance.moddinglinked.com</loc>