dx11 detailed: vista and dx10/.1 hardware supported - Xbox360Evolved

xSTEVEO · 07-22-2008, 05:52 PM

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DirectX 11 detailed; Vista and DX 10 / 10.1 hardware supported

31 Comments by Christopher Grant Jul 22nd 2008 2:55PM
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At its GamesFest event in Redmond today, Microsoft shared the first details of DirectX 11 – the numerically superior successor to DirectX 10.1 – which will feature full support for Windows Vista, as well as future versions of the popular operating system. Worried about hardware? DirectX 11 won't just ignore your fancy DirectX 10 or 10.1 cards – nope, it offers support for both of those standards, as well as for new DirectX 11 hardware.

But what's new and exciting about DirectX 11, you ask incredulously. How about a "new compute shader technology" that gets your GPU ready to do more than just boring old 3D graphics – instead "developers can take advantage of the graphics card as a parallel processor"? Not doing it for you? How about "multi-threaded resource handling that will allow games to better take advantage of multi-core machines" since, y'know, most every computer nowadays has multiple cores? Or "support for tessellation" which allows "developers to refine models to be smoother and more attractive when seen up close"? Something in there has to tickle your fancy.

What it probably means for most of you is this: as hardware manufacturers develop new chipsets to take advantage of DirectX 11's new features, you should be able to snag some of that older 10.1 gear for a song.

source: DirectX 11 detailed; Vista and DX 10 / 10.1 hardware supported - Joystiq

sounds great. wont have to upgrade my card thankfully or os. so hopefully it'll let games run smoother now, since the dx10 runtime isnt that great exept for the upgraded shaders. i also hope that windows 7, is way more efficient, cause vista sucks when it comes to gaming.

theres another article on how ms plans on changing the games for windows live service: Microsoft makes Games For Windows Live free for all - Joystiq

ssp0929 · 07-22-2008, 06:30 PM

Too bad my Graphics card doesn't support Shaders. Well, at least not the good kind. I can do basic shaders but when it comes to advanced shading my Graphics card sucks.

I have Radeon 9600 btw. I would kill to have 8800gt.

Marauder · 07-24-2008, 01:37 PM

Everyone knows not to buy something that just came out for PCs or w/e. After this update they might sell more.

ssp0929 · 07-24-2008, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Marauder

Everyone knows not to buy something that just came out for PCs or w/e. After this update they might sell more.

Yeah, cuz of Bugs, Security issues, etc.

Marauder · 07-24-2008, 05:27 PM

No games are unstable, crashing and doing weird things.

ssp0929 · 07-25-2008, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Marauder

No games are unstable, crashing and doing weird things.

You mean, no games are Stable?

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