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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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#4777735 Posted on: 03/06/2014 09:45 AM
Coming this summer exclusively to Windows 9 ...
Coming this summer exclusively to Windows 9 ...
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#4777736 Posted on: 03/06/2014 09:52 AM
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#4777737 Posted on: 03/06/2014 10:00 AM
Can't wait, looking forward to it.
Not sure why people are negative about DX12 when it offers so much for games.
Can't wait, looking forward to it.
Not sure why people are negative about DX12 when it offers so much for games.
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#4777738 Posted on: 03/06/2014 10:03 AM
"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."
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.
In other words, we pretty much know before the announcement that if you are not already on Windows 8.1, you will have to upgrade. And to a lesser extent based on MS track record, even 8.1 users might get boned at this rate in favor of 8.2 or 9.
"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."
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.
In other words, we pretty much know before the announcement that if you are not already on Windows 8.1, you will have to upgrade. And to a lesser extent based on MS track record, even 8.1 users might get boned at this rate in favor of 8.2 or 9.
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I only have hope that it wont stick to windows 8, becouse directx could be a disaster too like everything that Microsoft does lately.