DX 11 on it's way...

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#1 f22rf
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So it's been confirmed that DX 11 will be coming out with Win 7, and also to Vista- Linky.
Anyone knows what new features will it introduce? No game has been confirmed that will be using it right?
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#2 psychodrone
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That's good news. I was afraid Win 7 might still come with some DX10 crap.
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#3 osan0
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the big addition for DX11 is shader model 5 and the compute shader. the compute shader is kinda like what cuda does no on nvidia GPUs..it allows them to work with non graphical tasks like physics. however itll have the benefit for being hardware independant so devs wont need to worry too much about hardware support. this could actually be very useful as it could allow devs to balance the workload more between the CPU and GPU. send the eye candy physics down to the GPU and let the CPU deal with the game effecting physics for example. at the mo the CPU has to do everything not related to graphics. im sure theres loads of other little enahncements too but SM5 and the compute shaders are the news headliners.
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#4 HADIyusuf
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kinda old, but an interesting read,,

Ray Tracing To Debut In DirectX 11

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#5 f22rf
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[QUOTE="HADIyusuf"]

kinda old, but an interesting read,,

Ray Tracing To Debut In DirectX 11

Oh right, I remember reading this one
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#6 crazyfist36
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bring on Crysis 2 which ravages DX11
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#7 Marfoo
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Tesellation support, although that's been implemented in DirectX 10.1. I read that DirectX 10/10.1 hardware will be mostly compatible with DirectX 11, so maybe we will get a 10.X for for all the 11 features that work with 10 hardware, that would be nice.
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#8 iki080
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dammit my graphics card wont support dx11 then lol
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#9 Kh1ndjal
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as if devs have squeezed the last bit of juice out of dx10
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:( I'll have to move from XP, well we had a good run
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#11 ziil
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Some screens with DX11:
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=353789

And if someone is interested you can get the DX11 SDK aswell :P
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5493f76a-6d37-478d-ba17-28b1cca4865a&DisplayLang=en
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#12 nicknees93
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Some screens with DX11:
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=353789

And if someone is interested you can get the DX11 SDK aswell :P
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5493f76a-6d37-478d-ba17-28b1cca4865a&DisplayLang=en
ziil
HOLY...!!!
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i hate my vista.
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#14 blade55555
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and I get this win 7 for free (Legally) :D.
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#15 f22rf
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Some screens with DX11:
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=353789

And if someone is interested you can get the DX11 SDK aswell :P
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5493f76a-6d37-478d-ba17-28b1cca4865a&DisplayLang=en
ziil
These pics don't mean that actual games will look like them
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Some screens with DX11:
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=353789

And if someone is interested you can get the DX11 SDK aswell :P
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5493f76a-6d37-478d-ba17-28b1cca4865a&DisplayLang=en
ziil
OMG my jaw dropped, especially on the stairway and the house , holy jeebus. well it looks like win 7, nvidia gtx 380/480 , a nahalem or w/e wil be out proc, 16 gigs of ram, and SSD's are going to be coming my way once win7 stabalizes and i save up enough money... and a year ago i thought my sli 9800gtx's and Q9300 were hot stuff :(
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#17 Immortalica
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Some screens with DX11:
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=353789

And if someone is interested you can get the DX11 SDK aswell :P
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5493f76a-6d37-478d-ba17-28b1cca4865a&DisplayLang=en
ziil
WTF OMG WOW
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#18 biggest_loser
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This is pointless. Why would we want Shader Model 5 when most games only use 3. Does this mean we will have to buy a new video card? I do not want Dx11 if that is the case!!
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#19 succulent_toes
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Graphics haven't really improved all that much since Crysis. The only game that topped it is...Crysis Warhead. And DX10 was an absolute failure in every conceivable way. Though I welcome change and improvements, I'm not holding my breath over this news. If things start to look better, great. But with everything being so uberconsolized these days, I seriously doubt that we'll see any major improvements in the near future, at least until 360 and PS3 start to look really dated compared to PC games that are exclusively developed for the platform.
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#20 Elann2008
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This is pointless. Why would we want Shader Model 5 when most games only use 3. Does this mean we will have to buy a new video card? I do not want Dx11 if that is the case!!biggest_loser
I just bought my 4870x2... =[

Those images are amazing. We're one step closer to photo-realistic graphics.

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#21 Jd1680a
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This is pointless. Why would we want Shader Model 5 when most games only use 3. Does this mean we will have to buy a new video card? I do not want Dx11 if that is the case!!biggest_loser

It will take at least a full year after directx 11 and shader model 5 come out before we see games using it. Remember how long it took for Directx 10 games came out after Vista was released. That is two full years from now, an eternity for gaming PCs. Most of the top of the line video cards right now would be mid or low range and people would have upgraded their hardware by then. Game developers will not abandon directx 10 right away and people who have the best video cards now will still be able to play games that will come out then.

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#22 LibertySaint
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...well thats what in 2011...i hope it is then at least because no game yet has actually used dx10, they only some of its features ontop of dx9. I want a game built solely for dx10 and 2 years is enough time to get a game rolling on dx10s legs...but that will never happen because of consoles and windows xp not having dx10 support leaving a small consumer base for a dx10 only game. Heck dx10 is awesome and runs about a twice as good as dx9 with games, that is if the game is built up solely on dx10....but sadly no game has and only had features of dx10 added onto dx9 making a game run worse in "dx10 mode" then running in dx9 by itself. Crysis and crysis warhead are really just a showcase of what the last legs of dx9 look like. dx10 actually looks alot better and performs better. dx11 is meant to improve that and make devs develope  dx11 game from the ground up solely on that api with future consoles in mind and a larger pc consumer base.

man if crysis was made only on dx10 it would run like 1.5x (25fps to 37.5fps!!!)better on dx10 complaint cards....uh what ever tho, we just get more and more graphics cards and processors shoved in our faces and see little improvement because of archaic development relying on an old consumer base. (like come on that intel core i7 is such as waste right now, it barely is better then the current processors yet to actually use a core i7 cpu it will cost you about triple the price.)

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#23 Blackfriend8
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there isn't much of a difference between dx9 and 10 from what Ive seen when gamespot puts those comparisons up between the two i cant tell the difference. i have an 8800gt and i cant tell the difference in the like bioshock or assassins creed so unless dx11 is a HUGE jump from dx 10 it wont matter.