A little unexpected gift from Microsoft this evening, DirectX9 has shown up and is available for download from the official website through one of those fun web download interface apps. Feel free to share any benchmark speed bumps in 3DMark or whatever games you're playing, results seem to vary pretty wildly so far. Thanks 3DChipset update: It seems that MS has pulled the file for now, but ya never know it may show up again in a few hours, as things like this tend to happen.