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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.
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#4777968 Posted on: 03/06/2014 06:37 PM
Just in time for GFWL going offline so we can't play loads of the games we paid for online.
Microsoft don't give two dicks about pc gaming and dx12 won't change that.
Except the creation of DirectX, the de-facto API that virutally every single PC game has used, ever.
But yeah, I can see how MS doesn't care.
Just in time for GFWL going offline so we can't play loads of the games we paid for online.
Microsoft don't give two dicks about pc gaming and dx12 won't change that.
Except the creation of DirectX, the de-facto API that virutally every single PC game has used, ever.
But yeah, I can see how MS doesn't care.
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#4777977 Posted on: 03/06/2014 06:55 PM
Not sure why everyone is so butt hurt over this announcement. If I get a 10% performance boost (ala Mantle) I'll drop $120 on a new OS. I'm ready to ditch Windows 7, but only if there is a reason to do so and this could be it.
Not sure why everyone is so butt hurt over this announcement. If I get a 10% performance boost (ala Mantle) I'll drop $120 on a new OS. I'm ready to ditch Windows 7, but only if there is a reason to do so and this could be it.
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#4778002 Posted on: 03/06/2014 07:41 PM
Me too, but again, I wonder, will this be backwards compatbile with gtx 600/700 series like Mantle or will it be only for gtx 800/amd equivalent that need to support it hardware wise whenever they come out...
Me too, but again, I wonder, will this be backwards compatbile with gtx 600/700 series like Mantle or will it be only for gtx 800/amd equivalent that need to support it hardware wise whenever they come out...
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#4778015 Posted on: 03/06/2014 08:04 PM
I hope that we will only need a new os for this to work rather that a new GPU.
I hope that we will only need a new os for this to work rather that a new GPU.
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They don't have to upgrade every two years. Skip a generation. I don't care. But I'm done spending 4 hours troubleshooting a XP Dell 1501 with 1gig of ram that's loaded full of viruses. I usually just recommend those people iPads since they are barely doing anything on those PC's anyway.