Far more important Braben, which is the percentage of people who can't play at the moment but they could before but now has to deal with constant crashes? Because blaming NVIDIA for something made by your people and worked before is not how you should do technical support to your customers.
News Future support for Win 32 and DX10
- Thread starter David Braben
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We must move forward, not backward, upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling!
I think giving people time and notice of the old tech being dropped is a sign of a class act/company.
Whilst i would sympathise with those who would need upgrades/re installs etc, I believe its the right path to take, being able to squash bugs possibly sooner and take less dev time is a good thing. Also to have better effects etc is a plus too.
I approve for sure.
But i must say you need to address the netcode and wings/ instancing as currently its implementation seems poor.
Whilst i would sympathise with those who would need upgrades/re installs etc, I believe its the right path to take, being able to squash bugs possibly sooner and take less dev time is a good thing. Also to have better effects etc is a plus too.
I approve for sure.
But i must say you need to address the netcode and wings/ instancing as currently its implementation seems poor.
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Holy hell, then why do you still support this old-as-a-dinosaurs things? Given the percentages you've named...
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Considering AMD ditched driver support for dx10 cards years ago, and Nvidia ditched driver support for dx10 cards the 9th of April this year, Id say go ahead and drop and all dx10 support.
As for win32, OEMs havnt shipped 32bit machines since 2009 when win7 launched.
My personal opinion on win32 is drop that like a rock, asap. Not just for greater system memory access, but that double float precision for player location tho... I'd hate to have "Season 3: Legs" without it!
As for win32, OEMs havnt shipped 32bit machines since 2009 when win7 launched.
My personal opinion on win32 is drop that like a rock, asap. Not just for greater system memory access, but that double float precision for player location tho... I'd hate to have "Season 3: Legs" without it!
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Dumb question from a tech noob.
My system in my signature, and I run Windows 10 64-bit.
Do I have anything to worry about?
My system in my signature, and I run Windows 10 64-bit.
Do I have anything to worry about?
Not at all. Your hardware is like 6 years newer than what they suggest to drop support from.
Oh whaaaattt? I was hoping for 16bit support...
http://cloud-3.steamusercontent.com/ugc/46502257639609649/E880587F3B637E8425A2266A08F2007D9B8F25AD/
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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=429621852
In all seriousness awesome, crack on. Lets DX12 the lot.
http://cloud-3.steamusercontent.com/ugc/46502257639609649/E880587F3B637E8425A2266A08F2007D9B8F25AD/
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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=429621852
In all seriousness awesome, crack on. Lets DX12 the lot.
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Thank you sir. Forgive my ignorance. Only had my PC for a year, and this is the first paradigm shift I've witnessed in a game I play.
Good to know I'm all good. Cheers.
NO you don't, other than going forward a GTX 960 may lack the graphical horsepower.
Everything else in your system should last you many many years, I suspect well into the 2020's.
Put it this way I'm rocking an I7 920 CPU from 2008 and that's still good enough to handle anything thrown at it. Your I5 is newer and more capable so I cant see it having any problems for years to come.
Your system is good for some time coming. It'll support DX12 and that's a step above the future requirements.
Ninja'd.
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Please keep in mind that the the Macintosh users still have to install native Windows on their Macintosh to get Horizons and the Engineers and that driver support by Apple and AMD has never been the best on the Mac. While dropping 32 bit Windows won't cause much worries, dropping older Direct-X versions may do. I personally did try different Windows versions on my iMac 5 k model late 2014 and the Windows 7 64 bit Direct X 11 runs best. If Elite would cancel support for this in some way I won't be able to just buy a new machine only for Elite. :O
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Thank you.
Time to move along to the hardware/software (64 bit/DX11) that has been the norm for more and more of the gaming/real world for some time now. If it were up to some folks, we'd all still be running on Windows 95. There is always grumbling when the gaming or application software drives changes for some part of the community, but I don't think we can hold the future back for some that can't or won't move on to the new standards. Not sure if the people that hang onto 32 bit/DX10 will get left completely behind, and if they do get left out in the future, I feel their pain. But we can't continue to build a "ten year future project" on operating systems/GPU's from ten years ago. Please press ahead with the development of future releases based on the more efficient/capable OS and GPUs.
As long as your GPU supports dx11 and AMD/Nvidia/Intel continues to push out win7 drivers for it, yes it will.