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What kind of graphics adapter do you have, make and model?

Looking at Hellgate London, I don't see mention of it using Direct3D 11. Is there a new patch that adds this?

The Asus card specs say DirectX 10, suggesting that there is no hardware acceleration for DX 10.1 or DX 11. Asus provides their own drivers which may be modified from the stock NVidia 9800GT drivers. Unfortunately, they don't provide Windows 7 drivers at Asus.

Actually, I just downloaded the Asus driver and it looks like it is the stock NVidia driver. Have you run dxdiag? Also, try GPU-Z to find out all you can about the card, the chip, and D3D levels. Do you have the latest BIOS for the card?

What do you mean when you say, "dx10 in Hellgate won't work". Is there some kind of error message that tells you this?

So, I'm guessing that you would have tried the NVidia GeForce driver version 190.38 for Windows 7, such as the 32-bit drivers here. Those drivers will support the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) -- it's the only way to support Direct3D 10. That these drivers are also certified by the Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) is icing on the cake. That means that the drivers have been tested by Microsoft.

As to why it doesn't work with HGL, it's hard to say. There is still the possibility that Asus has modified the stock NVidia drivers in some way. You might ask around in forums where other gamers are running Windows 7 RC to see what kind of trouble and solutions they know of.