The good news is now work is being done on the DX9 plugin, the bad news is while Intel users will be able to use it, the fact remains is that it will still be horribly slow at rendering and won't be as fast as the OpenGL plugin on Nvidia/ATI hardware.
Though Nvidia/ATI users should see the same speed with the DX9 plugin as the OpenGL plugin once the kinks/bugs are worked out and it's on par with the OpenGL plugin.
Though Nvidia/ATI users should see the same speed with the DX9 plugin as the OpenGL plugin once the kinks/bugs are worked out and it's on par with the OpenGL plugin.