Quantum Break to arrive on PC as a DirectX 12 only title

[DanceswithUnix]

But I actually wonder if this arguement should be more about the fact that there is no alternative but windows 10 ?

Vulkan is supposedly finished, going through legal processes, drivers are written, big games houses were asking for it and contributed to it.

Nvidia have already said Vulkan will ship as a part of OpenGL, which includes their Windows XP drivers.

If Vulkan is everywhere, I can't see why anyone would develop a DX12 game.

[HalloweenJack]

More bandwidth doesn't help you if you have 5.5GB of textures that you need to keep in memory - if you're calling stuff over the PCIe slot then you might as well have the bandwidth of a DDR3 card

didn't stop the GTX 970 selling did it - that last 512mb of video ram has the access speed of DDR3....

[kalniel]

If Vulkan is everywhere, I can't see why anyone would develop a DX12 game.

Tools.

I personally am glad to see the start of games being produced for DX12, I want to see if there is any real world improvements like there have been with previous versions of DX.

Time will tell. Potentially should be quite a lot for some types of games if the developers go down the close to the metal route (or console port).

But I actually wonder if this arguement should be more about the fact that there is no alternative but windows 10 ?

YMMV, but for the kinds of games I'm interested in there's been a lot more alternatives than usual - divinity original sin is one of my top recent games, and is out on windows, unix, mac, steamOS, ps4 and xb1. Pillars of eternity likewise etc.

[Jace007]

I'm looking forward to this game, Just for the special effects and seeing what Full DX12 is like. It'll be a great way to see whats going to come in the coming Months. Both Polaris & Pascal GPU should be out in the next few months, So anyone wanting to Upgrade their GPU I would advise to hold on until at least May.

[Corky34]

I'm looking forward to this game, Just for the special effects and seeing what Full DX12 is like.

That's assuming they're implementing all the bells and whistles of DX12 or just making it DX12 in an attempt to push people onto Windows 10.

[DanceswithUnix]

Tools.

Name calling seems a bit harsh

[Heimanyip]

Finally a game to see what DX12 got to offer.

[shaithis]

Finally a game to see what DX12 got to offer.

Possibly.....just because a game uses something, doesn't mean it uses it well!

[Xlucine]

didn't stop the GTX 970 selling did it - that last 512mb of video ram has the access speed of DDR3....

And the games in the review pool at the time of release don't need more than 3.5GB of ram for high res, so it had no performance impact. If the designers of a game in the future make the textures for a scene take up 5GB then any future reviews will show a big performance deficit, as will be seen on any cards with less than 5GB of VRAM

[shaithis]

Just read some news that will annoy a few people:

Game will be exclusive to the Windows Store.

[Corky34]

Would be interesting to know how much Microsoft paid them to restrict their potential market size so much.

[DanceswithUnix]

Would be interesting to know how much Microsoft paid them to restrict their potential market size so much.

I'm sure MS can afford it, and it is probably money well spent from their point of view.

As the window for one year free "upgrade" draws to a close, people will re-evaluate whether they want Win 10. Possibly more along the lines of whether you want to be outside it watching support for your existing platform crumble as people move to the new one. It happened with Windows 3.1 users migrating to 95, Windows 95 users migrating to XP, with XP users migrating to 7. It will probably take at least another year, but there will come a point when Win10 becomes the mainstream and most sensible platform to be on for Windows.

Personally I have moved from having Windows as primarily a gaming platform to pretty much only a gaming platform and spend more of my time in Linux. That gives me very little info to leak to MS, so I am ready for the switchover from 7 to 10. Still not sure when would be optimum, but given I am now only talking about whether a few games work there isn't even much early adopter pain left for me.

I expect so see lots of little nudges towards Win 10 in the next few months. I was bound to switch anyway, they will all fall on deaf ears for me.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Not been in the loop for a while but which gpu is compatible with dx12? I have a pair of 980gtx

[kalniel]

Not been in the loop for a while but which gpu is compatible with dx12? I have a pair of 980gtx

Almost all AMD cards, and many nVidia cards - 900 series are.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Almost all AMD cards, and many nVidia cards - 900 series are.

thanks

[Sumanji]

I want to see if there is any real world improvements like there have been with previous versions of DX...

Agree, but it makes it hard to compare if there is no DX11 render path!