Wiith direct x 11 make all of our direct x 10 or 10.1 graphic cards outdated?

Wiith direct x 11 being released on windows 7, won't all gpu companies suffer a slow-down on thei direct x 10 cards, some of which have just been recently released? So for those people who inveseted money in buying a gtx 280, etc; won't microsoft be kicking them in the nuts?

Boy is that a relief. I was thinking that microsoft looked at us like a joke. Ok, now i can comfortably go purchase my dx10 card tomorrow.

No. Any DX 10 card will be compatible with DX 11 ( maybe DX 12 if somebody will still use such old gfx cards that were introduced with DX 10), because of the new design of the graphics cards. For example Nvidia with it's UDA, don't know how ATI calls it, since I don't care about them.DanielDust

[QUOTE="DanielDust"] No. Any DX 10 card will be compatible with DX 11 ( maybe DX 12 if somebody will still use such old gfx cards that were introduced with DX 10), because of the new design of the graphics cards. For example Nvidia with it's UDA, don't know how ATI calls it, since I don't care about them.not_wanted

Of course DX10 card will become outdated. Not necessarily because games will use Dx11 but because games will require more and more powerful components. A Even now a Dx9 card would do just fine if they were still produced and were as powerful as new Dx10 cards. In the end only a handful of games actually utilize 10. There's just no point in making Dx9 cards when you can just as well make them Dx10. Graphics cards becoming outdated has almost nothing to do with the DX version. A 8800 simply just isn't as powerful as a 280.RK-Mara

[QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Of course DX10 card will become outdated. Not necessarily because games will use Dx11 but because games will require more and more powerful components. A Even now a Dx9 card would do just fine if they were still produced and were as powerful as new Dx10 cards. In the end only a handful of games actually utilize 10. There's just no point in making Dx9 cards when you can just as well make them Dx10. Graphics cards becoming outdated has almost nothing to do with the DX version. A 8800 simply just isn't as powerful as a 280.zaibutzu

[QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Of course DX10 card will become outdated. Not necessarily because games will use Dx11 but because games will require more and more powerful components. A Even now a Dx9 card would do just fine if they were still produced and were as powerful as new Dx10 cards. In the end only a handful of games actually utilize 10. There's just no point in making Dx9 cards when you can just as well make them Dx10. Graphics cards becoming outdated has almost nothing to do with the DX version. A 8800 simply just isn't as powerful as a 280.zaibutzu

I just hope DirectX 11 will be really different and better, not like DirectX 10 and Vista with all of its promises but big zero in result

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