In addition to the title question, one more thing: Is DX11 hardware-dependent as well ?
Will I miss too much by buying a GTX275 as soon as possible ? Should I wait DX11 to land ? And will DX11 land with Win7's release or what ?
Thanks in advance.
In addition to the title question, one more thing: Is DX11 hardware-dependent as well ?
Will I miss too much by buying a GTX275 as soon as possible ? Should I wait DX11 to land ? And will DX11 land with Win7's release or what ?
Thanks in advance.
Depends on whether or not you expect to be using lots of DX11 stuff. If not: who cares about DX11 anyways?
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Well that is the point: how much programs are actually exclusively DX10 (i.e.: they cannot run on XP) these days? There are plenty of cards that do not (even) support DX10 fully and although not a lot of them are exactly useful for hardcore gaming anymore, it will still take quite a bit of time before all that DX 9 and old DX 10 hardware is fully phased out (as in: you cannot play if you still have that kit) -- and then we have not touched on the proper DX 10 hardware itself.
So currently just about any application you might care for will run just fine on appropriate current hardware and most likely on XP-age stuff as well; and this will probably remain so for as long as software has to support legacy DX 9 or DX 10 hardware. Proper DX 10 drivers are much like DX 11 drivers (the big thing about DX 11 is that it now requires the DX 10 driver model to be used; instead of the legacy DX 9 and older implementations) so even though you may miss out on DX 11 specific features you will likely still be able to play/use things which simply expects a ‘DX 10/11 compatible card’...
Last edited by Tellos Athenaios; 10-12-2009 at 18:45.
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DX 11 is in Windows 7 and IIRC someone here said it's likely to become available for Vista as well.
The new ATI 5xxx cards already support DX 11 (yes, it needs new hardware) and I'm not aware of any game available now that uses DX 11, I think the Pc version of DIRT 2 will have it (might be wrong though) and that's about all that comes to mind, it has some improvements but will probably take time to become anywhere near widespread, as has been said, not all games take advantage of 10 yet and those that do, often just use a few of the many new features it seems. (Venetica and Risen have god-rays which are DX10 only afaik but that's the only DX 10 feature I recognized in both games)
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There's a DX 11? Im still using 9.0c... I feel so far behind in the times :/
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DX11 will be a superset of DX10, not a ground-up rewrite like the transition from 9 to 10. So DX10 hardware should make you quite happy for a long time. Here's a brief overview of the changes.
Hmm, apparently battleforge is the only DX 11 game out so far but you get a considerable performance increase when you enable it, german page but look at the graphs: http://www.computerbase.de/news/hard...spiele_sooner/
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