So what's the word on Directx12, devs?
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Somewhat, but Mantle was the most vocal outlet for the low level API push, which I suspect pushed MS to announce DX12 sooner than anticipated. Either way MS has done quite well in emulating the ability of Mantle in most workloads so far (some exceptions of course, but DX12 is never going to be the superlow system that Mantle was either).
There have been some early reports that DX12 is robust enough to allow a NVIDIA card and AMD card to run side by side. I actually think this could help AMD, as there are some people sore about the GTX 970 situation but don't want to switch because they'd lose PhysX. However with DX12 one could have an AMD card as a main and have a lower power NVIDIA card for PhysX potentially. I don't know if this will bear out in reality (NVIDIA I think will try to enact some sort of lockout even if it does work) but it's the most exciting tech development I've seen in a while.
Do you get a free upgrade to a pirate windows 10 if you run a pirate copy of 7?
True. The differences between Dx9 and Dx11 were... Well I didn't actually see one.I wouldn't expect "magic" from newer DirectX Versions.
Their realistic, everyday benefits are typically far lower than what you see in their Advertising campaigns
Plus, as others have already noticed, alot of the optimizations go into getting the best performance out of Shared Memory, low-performance iGPUs.
What comes around for Players using dedicated and far more powerful GPUs - that remains to be seen.
All my so-called DX11 optimised games ran exactly the same and looked no different after I upgraded my graphic card to one that supported Dx11. I began to believe the all the hype over Dx11 was to get people to upgrade to better graphics cards because everyone was happy to make do with what they had.
Ah. Well, that would be the pirate's problem then, wouldn't it?
DX11's big graphics improvement over DX9 was tessellation. Which is this stuff.
If you aren't using that, you can achieve largely the same results using DX9 or DX10.
Given that I wouldn't trust either AMD or NVidia any further than I could spit their respective still-warm corpses, this will be interesting. It would have to be so deeply embedded in DX/WHQL qualification that neither side could weasel out of it or break it on purpose. Intel are not above moves around these sorts of things, either.
If you want to compute with a squeaky white Silicon Valley outfit, best buy is an abacus instead sadly.
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Does the latest NVIDIA driver, which is to implement DirectX12 within Win10, add any DirectX12 to E.D.? If so does Win7 also get any DirectX12 update?
