DirectX 11

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Been reading http://www.techradar.com/news/comput...ectx-11-475655

and they suggest that we could be seeing Windows 7/ DX11 as soon as Easter?!

Crazy I tells ya!

If DX11 really delivers all that DX10 promised, will today top end GFX cards be outdated by then?

[2Cold Scorpio]

Interesting article. I'd already heard a lot of it but I learned a few new things. Thanks!

[dangel]

Been reading http://www.techradar.com/news/comput...ectx-11-475655

and they suggest that we could be seeing Windows 7/ DX11 as soon as Easter?!

Crazy I tells ya!

If DX11 really delivers all that DX10 promised, will today top end GFX cards be outdated by then?

Good article - although the "easter" ship date is far from probably given where MS are in their Beta cycle. We need to see release candidate builds shipping before the the ship date is even in sight!

[kalniel]

If DX11 really delivers all that DX10 promised, will today top end GFX cards be outdated by then?

They won't be the top end anymore, but they won't be useless either. DX11 builds on DX10 and games written for DX11 will likely be completely scalable to DX10 cards, while still seeing an improvement in performance over games written for DX10 on the same card.

[Brewster0101]

Are software houses actually interested in Directx 11? Doesn't seem like too many are that bothered about the benefits of Direct 10, not alone 11.....

Can someone list 10 games that use directx 10?

[Hicks12]

Can someone list 10 games that use directx 10 effectively?

Fixed , crysis on dx10=failed. I got double the fps on xp dx9(not saying vista is bad, just dx10 useage) so apart from the fact dx10 is ment to make games run faster and better its not working. It will be like dx9->10 but less of an impact, 7900 were overtaken by 8800 series but not hugely as the 7900 are still good now, it will be like that but the gtx280/4870 going to something new. I doubt we will se a decent improvement compared to the current gen.

[dangel]

Fixed , crysis on dx10=failed. I got double the fps on xp dx9(not saying vista is bad, just dx10 useage) so apart from the fact dx10 is ment to make games run faster and better its not working. It will be like dx9->10 but less of an impact, 7900 were overtaken by 8800 series but not hugely as the 7900 are still good now, it will be like that but the gtx280/4870 going to something new. I doubt we will se a decent improvement compared to the current gen.

The big "win" of DX10 is that it has far less overhead than DX9 - the problem is that any performance gains are drained by devs adding eye candy (which has an inherent cost of course). Couple that with the "bad days" of Vista drivers and DX10 was a hard sell.

Crysis was/is a DX9 game - the whole DX10 support thing was a fallacy - the engine was never ground-up built around it it was all a very dirty marketing trick.

[Stringent]

We even seen any real 10.1 stuff yet?

[shaithis]

Not enough people have DX10 cards yet for it to be worthwhile I guess.

Maybe once DX11 has been out a while, we will see some proper DX10 games