VBGamer

Yeah, MS has robbed like 20% of vb developers. If your making a 2D game top/down game, I would recommend DX7, over DX8 any day. The main reason, being that DX7 doesn't require absurd system requirements that DX8 does. This being that you HAVE to have a 3D card with hardware acceleration to get bearly decent FPS. So in doing 2D with DX8 is really out of the question, unless you want some unique effects and narrow down your userbase, tremendously. Stick with DX7 for DirectDraw stuff, and use DX8 for DirectPlay :) But then again, you are making a Isometric engine? I donno about that.. I tend to stay away from unrealistic game views..