DirectX 11 Announced

shenry · 07-23-2008, 11:21 AM

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During its Gamefest 2008 developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft officially announced DirectX 11, the newest version of its multimedia API package. Like its predecessor DirectX 10, it will be exclusive to Windows Vista "as well as future versions of Windows."

Features include new shader technology that begins to allow developers to position GPUs as more general-purpose parallel processors, rather than being dedicated solely to graphics processing; better multi-threading capabilities; and hardware-based tesselation.

Said newly promoted Microsoft's Entertainment Business Division CTO Chris Satchell during a Gamefest keynote, "We want to break away from purely having a paradigm of pixels, vertices and shaders."

DirectX 10, which was first released in 2006, required DX10-specific hardware, creating a clearly-defined split between it and DX9. "We created a discontinuity; that was deliberate," Satchell said during his address, but DX11 will be compatible with DX10 hardware.

"DX11 is totally compatible with DX10. There's not that 9/10 discontinuity we created before," he said.

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I'm not sure how reliable the source is but I thought I probably should post it.

lovely? · 07-23-2008, 01:31 PM

so are they saying that something like my 8800GT will be able to use DX11 fully, and not just run software that uses dx11? because i can only imagine the performance increases normal dx10 cards could get from this.

Kornowski · 07-23-2008, 08:57 PM

Sounds pretty sweet!

ATI have DX10.1, we can't even use 10.0 properly... lol

[-0MEGA-] · 07-23-2008, 08:58 PM

Well DX9 was able to be installed on a DX8 card, but from what I understood you don't get the full benefits of DX9 since the card didn't fully support it. I believe this is similar, but I'm not sure as there wasn't a whole lot of information there.

I can't believe they are creating DX11 already though, I mean even though DX10 has been out since 2006, very few games support it. Not to mention that even now there's not a huge difference between the two.

Blazing_Javelin · 07-23-2008, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Kornowski

Sounds pretty sweet!

ATI have DX10.1, we can't even use 10.0 properly... lol

I agree TOTALLY lol..... imagine what DX 11 is gunna be lke

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lovely? Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: California Age: 15 Posts: 3,833	so are they saying that something like my 8800GT will be able to use DX11 fully, and not just run software that uses dx11? because i can only imagine the performance increases normal dx10 cards could get from this. __________________ E4500 @ 2.93GHZ ASUS P5K-DELUXE 2GB OCZ Reaper CL3 @ 800MHZ 3-4-4-15 eVGA 8800GT OZC GameXStream 700W PSU 320GB WD Caviar SATA, 80GB WD Caviar IDE Sometimes scientists make things alot harder than they need to. All they've gotta do is put a big spring on the ground where they think it's gonna land, or send a mission to the moon to erect a sign that says "Welcome to Earth".

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[-0MEGA-] Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Concord, NH Age: 20 Posts: 27,082	Well DX9 was able to be installed on a DX8 card, but from what I understood you don't get the full benefits of DX9 since the card didn't fully support it. I believe this is similar, but I'm not sure as there wasn't a whole lot of information there. I can't believe they are creating DX11 already though, I mean even though DX10 has been out since 2006, very few games support it. Not to mention that even now there's not a huge difference between the two. __________________ Desktop // Laptop Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0GHz // Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz Asus Rampage Formula X48 // Intel PM45 ATI 4870X2 2GB GDDR5 // 512MB GDDR3 9800M GTS 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 940 // 4GB DDR3 800 750GB SATAII w/32MB // 200GB SATAII 7200RPM Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty SilverStone 750W +12V@60A 3DMark06: 21391 // 9179

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