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Guru3D.com » News » Microsoft will announce DirectX 12 March 20

Microsoft will announce DirectX 12 March 20

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/06/2014 09:32 AM | source: | 160 comment(s)
Microsoft will announce DirectX 12 March 20

Microsoft has prepared a small teaser on their website in which they make note of DirectX 12 being announced March 20. So lte me just say, heck yeah finally ! This will happen at the game developers conference in San Francisco. Microsoft will host two conferences called 'DirectX: Evolving Microsoft's Graphics Platform'  and 'DirectX: Direct3D Futures'. On MSDN Microsoft now also announced DX 12.

“Driver overhead has been a frustrating reality for game developers for the entire life of the PC game industry. On desktop systems, driver overhead can decrease frame rate, while on mobile devices driver overhead is more insidious–robbing both battery life and frame rate. In this unprecedented sponsored session, Graham Sellers (AMD), Tim Foley (Intel), Cass Everitt (NVIDIA) and John McDonald (NVIDIA) will present high-level concepts available in today’s OpenGL implementations that radically reduce driver overhead–by up to 10x or more. The techniques presented will apply to all major vendors and are suitable for use across multiple platforms. Additionally, they will demonstrate practical demos of the techniques in action in an extensible, open source comparison framework.”

From the looks of it (think mantle here) the earlier rumors on low-level access and control over hardware have been true. This will be a major feature of DX12 and will lower CPU overhead and thus cycles. Anyway, March 20th we'll learn more about the up and coming DX12. let's just hope you are not forced to upgrade to a new version of Windows to be able to use it.



Microsoft will announce DirectX 12 March 20




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moab600
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#4777745 Posted on: 03/06/2014 10:26 AM
Probably require windows 8.1 and 9. if it require 8 it's ok but if it sole only on windows 9, then they learnt nothing.

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#4777747 Posted on: 03/06/2014 10:35 AM

Well, DX 11.2 is Windows 8.1 exclusive, no love to 7. So unless MS pulled that very large sick out of their butt, the most we can hope for is for DX 12 to be on 8.1.


Am pretty sure you are right. These guys need to make money and all of us would have done the same if we controlled M$. Let's hope we won't have to wait till Win 9.

In other matter, I guess this is the reason why Nvidia was so quiet about the whole Mantle thing. Let's just hope that DX12 is really close to mantle in terms of performance advantages and then we can all forget the proprietary nonsesne crap and that it will support older hardware as well. At least one gen backwards

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#4777749 Posted on: 03/06/2014 10:47 AM
Just intime for the 790 hopefully.

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#4777755 Posted on: 03/06/2014 11:05 AM
If this is another carrot from MS to get us to upgrade, I'll pass.

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#4777756 Posted on: 03/06/2014 11:06 AM
Its only announcement. My guess it will be released with windows9 which is around Match 2015.

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