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Offline Clyde

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DirectX 11
« on: March 03, 2009 »
Im on Vista, and it still updates it with DirectX9 stuff; even though it's DirectX10, Confused, yes I am a bit.

Anyone know if DirectX11 is for sorting out the problems of compatability and errors that should of been for vista, like Direct Sound, and all "the working fine why you had to change things" stuff. Or is this for the codename Windows 7 ( although there are infact 10 windows versions ); with it's touch screen gimmick ?
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Re: DirectX 11
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2009 »
DX11 doesn't exist for anyone except internal Microsoft people yet.  DX10 is a Vista thing, it has a lot of new features based around new hardware capabilities. Vista is still backwards compatible with DX9 so hence you see the updates.
DX11 is not going to make yourDX8 or  DX9 compatible PC work with new games.  The new DXs come out to support features in new hardware/hardware comes out to support new possiblities of DX.  You need a new card to support the new capabilities.

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Re: DirectX 11
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2009 »
I guess this is destined for Windows 7, or whatever name that will change to. And have techonology for touch screen.
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Re: DirectX 11
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2009 »
Windows 7 doesn't currently have DirectX 11.

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Re: DirectX 11
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2009 »
from wikipedia

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Microsoft unveiled Direct3D 11 at the Gamefest 08 event in Seattle, with the major scheduled features including GPGPU support, tessellation support, and improved multi-threading support to assist video game developers in developing games that better utilize multi-core processors. Direct3D 11 will run on Windows Vista and its successor Windows 7. Parts of the new API such as multi-threaded resource handling can be supported on Direct3D 9/10/10.1-class hardware. Hardware tessellation and Shader Model 5.0 will require Direct3D 11 supporting hardware. Microsoft has since released the Direct3D 11 Technical Preview.  DirectX 11 is scheduled to be released as part of the Windows 7 operating system. It is included in the Windows 7 beta (build 7000).

I think latest dx sdk's have some preview stuff for developers, DX10 support in games has been rather limited due to it being vista only and gamers being slow to move over, will be interesting to see what happens this time around.

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Re: DirectX 11
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2009 »
One thing to note is that Windows XP works with DX10, but it was artifically restricted so that people would have to "downgrade" to crappy Vista. Also, DirectX is Microsoft only so it's a crap solution.
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Re: DirectX 11
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2009 »
I'm talking crap.  There's a d3d11.dll in my Windows 7 system32 folder.

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