Direct X 11 Unveiled..- Pc gaming wooot!!

The company calls DirectX 11 a "big step forward for gaming, adding features onto existing DirectX 10".

Key components of DirectX 11, will include:

o Full support (including all DX11 hardware features) on Windows Vista as well as future versions of Windows
o Compatibility with DirectX 10 and 10.1 hardware, as well as support for new DirectX 11 hardware
o New compute shader technology that lays the groundwork for the GPU to be used for more than just 3D graphics, so that developers can take advantage of the graphics card as a parallel processor
o Multi-threaded resource handling that will allow games to better take advantage of multi-core machines
o Support for tessellation, which blurs the line between super high quality pre-rendered scenes and scenes rendered in real-time, allowing game developers to refine models to be smoother and more attractive when seen up close

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LOL I don't even know what Direct X is, I just know it makes games look better, so, umm... woot? :D

.... not even many people took the leap to DX10 WHY RELEASE SO EARLY!expanded

Well if they have its ok because if you look at the second bullet it says compatable with 10 and 10.1.

Since the jump from DX9-10 was basically nothing, I'm not sure why they keep hyping up these new releases. Especially when most devs haven't had a lot of experience with 10, and there's hardly any support for 10.1. Fignewton50

Since the jump from DX9-10 was basically nothing, I'm not sure why they keep hyping up these new releases. Especially when most devs haven't had a lot of experience with 10, and there's hardly any support for 10.1. Fignewton50

Its like admiting that dx10 was an unecessary step. technology needs to move forward

nice. the bit about using GPUs for other stuff built into DX is very nice..somethign devs have been asking for for a while now.

but will it deliver? were were supposed to see a massive improvement with DX10 and we got zip. still heres hoping that MS dont mess this up and that the likes of nividia are actually ready for it this time.

[QUOTE="Fignewton50"]Since the jump from DX9-10 was basically nothing, I'm not sure why they keep hyping up these new releases. Especially when most devs haven't had a lot of experience with 10, and there's hardly any support for 10.1. killab2oo5

[QUOTE="Fignewton50"]Since the jump from DX9-10 was basically nothing, I'm not sure why they keep hyping up these new releases. Especially when most devs haven't had a lot of experience with 10, and there's hardly any support for 10.1. SamiRDuran

Its like admiting that dx10 was an unecessary step. technology needs to move forward

Yes technology does, but does software? Was DX10 necessary? It certainly doesn't seem to be the case at this point.

Yes technology does, but does software? Was DX10 necessary? It certainly doesn't seem to be the case at this point.

Fignewton50

Well, it was unveiled, but when will it be released? lettuceman44

Put dx 10 on xp then I will be happy vista sucks.

DirectX is an API package. It's Direct3D that people always talk about.Arnalion

DirectX 10 was a complete flop, so I don't have high hopes for DX11.

I remember Microsoft said DX10 would yield a 5-6x performance increase over DX9 :roll:

Direct X11...meh, call me when it's put to good use on actual games that will be played by people who are not elitist PC gamers. I'll wait for DirectX13 on the next batch of consoles. I hear Nintendo's next console is going to use Direct X 7, Wii is to powerful for them. Nintendo can't handle all those colours, need to strip it back to 16 colours on screen at once.

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[QUOTE="Fignewton50"]Since the jump from DX9-10 was basically nothing, I'm not sure why they keep hyping up these new releases. Especially when most devs haven't had a lot of experience with 10, and there's hardly any support for 10.1. Fignewton50

Its like admiting that dx10 was an unecessary step. technology needs to move forward

Yes technology does, but does software? Was DX10 necessary? It certainly doesn't seem to be the case at this point.

well in fairness i think we will see the effect of MSs decision become more apparent as we start going into dx11 and 12 and 13 etc (which i assume will build on DX10). one nice positive about DX10 is that its a fresh start...a new beginning. DX9 has routes that go as far back as DX4 or 5. this is needed to maintain BC with older games and hardware but it also holds advancement back a bit. alot fo the stuff used back then just isnt necessary now (like capability bits) and ti contributes to bloating.

yes DX10 is a damp squib that has delivered, bascially, nothing so far in and of itself. but was it necessary? absolutely. at some stage MS had to make a clean break...start from scratch.

their biggest mistake was not making it available on XP...thats the big issue. as we all know, the PC and PC users do not like clean breaks...they like gradual progression that they can do at their own pace. had MS made DX10 available on XP then there would be a hell of alot more DX10 capable PCs and alot more developer support for it.

edit: i would also like MS to take a similar approach to windows. start from scratch.....blank page. but add virtual machine software that can easily install and run XP or vista (basically run it like a game). no faffing about with partitions. that way ppl get their BC but also have a much leaner and faster OS for newer software...one not hampered by bloating. even low end PCs today can run a couple of OSs at the same time....a few years from now it should be a piece of cake.

didn't DX10 just comeout like 2 years ago?Adonymous

Yeah, and most of the time it runs like crap for minimal visual upgrades. Hopefully this will look better, and run more efficiently than DX10.

[QUOTE="Adonymous"]didn't DX10 just comeout like 2 years ago?SimpJee

Yeah, and most of the time it runs like crap for minimal visual upgrades. Hopefully this will look better, and run more efficiently than DX10.

meh I'm not getting my hopes up

o New compute shader technology that lays the groundwork for the GPU to be used for more than just 3D graphics, so that developers can take advantage of the graphics card as a parallel processor
Angakua

This is the part that caught my eye the most, a universal standard for GPU computing? People have no idea how big something like that is, they really have no idea.

A small fraction of GPU computing has been demonstrated today and it completely made a joke out of everything any system has right now, if it was standardised developers would be more likely to adopt it.

Games using DX11 aren't going to be out for years.

DirectX 10 was a complete flop, so I don't have high hopes for DX11.

I remember Microsoft said DX10 would yield a 5-6x performance increase over DX9 :roll:

bungie93

anyone who says DX10 is a flop knows nothing about programming...

DX10 is exponentially better than DX9.

The fact that not ONE developer has actually made an engine that can run DX10 native is a result of consoles being the lead platform.

That is right, there has not been a SINGLE DX10 native game.

Crysis is DX9 with 1 DX10 pipeline modification to add geometry shaders for the Ice Shader.

And because most of the pipeline is DX9, the Ice Shader was broken with Geometry Shaders active because it caused memory leaks and general performance issues...

Even if DX11 is just DX10 with 1 new feature, if someone ACTUALLY USES IT, people will say it is a huge leap.

And hopefully DX11 coming out will encourage native DX10 support to get adopted.

YES!!!!!! LOAD BALANCING!!!!

Do you know what this means?????????? GPUs have more floating point processing power than any CPU available and their memory is fast as hell. Being able to shift physics or other calculations to the gpu is going to drastically increase what we can do with current gen tech (Think HD4900 series). No more issues with abstraction and trying to utilize the gfx card for more than just rendering, the DX API should take care of the load balancing with specialized functions.householdman

YAY, stuff I don't understand!!

...:D

so that developers can take advantage of the graphics card as a parallel processorAngakua

Do you nee dnew hardware for DX11?Couth_

Yeah, most likely.