• Adaptive N-Patch tesselation (ATI TruForm) support for D3D8/9 (needs feature level 11.0 through the output API as a minimum)
• A new shader code generator for the D3D FF vertex pipeline in favor of better performance with specialized shaders
• Enabling mixed MSAA types of D3D9 render- and depthstencil targets (some scene demos)
• Bugfixes
  • Fixing a DDraw surface create parameter validation incompatibility (Rogue Spear Urban Operations)
  • Fixing x64 D3D9 stateblock handling crash
  • Fixing a particular D3D8 lighting effect compatibility (Blitzkrieg map editor)
  • Fixing a bug in the ps.3.0 DXBC generator
  • Fixing a minor bug in DDraw with fast videomemory access
  • Fixing freezing video playback in Mega Man X series
• New options
  • Adding scaling mode 'Stretched, keep aspect ratio (CRT like)'
  • Adding DirectX\KeepFilterIfPointSampled
  • Adding DirectXExt\NPatchTesselationLevel (only for experimenting purposes)
  • Adding DirectXExt\EnableSpecializedShaders - this is intented to be a transitioning option, to be removed in a later version
• Minor peformance optimization for handling ps FF specialized shaders
• A lot of changes under the hood in general