DirectX 11?
by Brian McCain · in Technical Issues · 07/22/2008 (6:15 pm) · 5 replies
Http://pc.ign.com/articles/892/892768p1.html
Unless they found some powerful secret which is going to change the world of video games, I don't think we should rush into things!
Unless they found some powerful secret which is going to change the world of video games, I don't think we should rush into things!
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#2
According to Valve's hardware survey over 80% of their users are still on XP. Less than 10% have Vista and a DX10 capable card... and Vista has been out for a year at the point the survey was taken. I doubt its much better today.
In short Vista and DX10 were one of the the worst roll outs of technology for the game development community in quite a while. I suspect that DX10/11 will continue to have poor adoption. Maybe Windows 7 will change things... but that won't come out till 2010.
07/24/2008 (8:23 am)
DX 10 and 11 have been held up by the slow adoption of Vista. According to Valve's hardware survey over 80% of their users are still on XP. Less than 10% have Vista and a DX10 capable card... and Vista has been out for a year at the point the survey was taken. I doubt its much better today.
In short Vista and DX10 were one of the the worst roll outs of technology for the game development community in quite a while. I suspect that DX10/11 will continue to have poor adoption. Maybe Windows 7 will change things... but that won't come out till 2010.
#3
Gary (-;
07/24/2008 (9:42 am)
That press release basically reads: "We haven't actually got anything and won't have anything anytime soon, but please don't consider using Apple's OpenCL. Additionally, please start using Vista."Gary (-;
#4
lol, yep I got the same thing from it.
Which brings to Snow Leopard. I honestly can't wait until they give us more information. MacWorld 09? I hope they give us more info on it there.
12/03/2008 (4:45 pm)
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That press release basically reads: "We haven't actually got anything and won't have anything anytime soon, but please don't consider using Apple's OpenCL. Additionally, please start using Vista."
lol, yep I got the same thing from it.
Which brings to Snow Leopard. I honestly can't wait until they give us more information. MacWorld 09? I hope they give us more info on it there.
#5
It's also kind of silly because the DX11 tech preview is in the November 2008 DirectX SDK.
12/04/2008 (12:05 pm)
Just as a point of interest: It's bad form to revive a 5 month old thread. It's also kind of silly because the DX11 tech preview is in the November 2008 DirectX SDK.
Torque Owner Robert Potter
It's not really "rushing" things, I don't think.