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What Game Developers Think about DirectX 10
mikemuch writes "In the last of his series of interviews with the stakeholders in Microsofts upcoming DirectX graphics API, Jason Cross speaks with the developers of Hellgate, Crysis, Flight Simulator X, and Age of Conan. They seem pretty stoked about the new technology's ability to get visual detail to a much higher level of realism, and to offload physics and AI to the CPU." From the article: "Without hardware, it is hard to evaluate which features will really make the biggest performance impact. The geometry shader looks pretty full of potential. So does the fact that you can write to buffers from any shader and then read them into another shader. Texture arrays look like they will make a big dent our batch count, which should lead to much better frame rates. At this point I feel like I'm looking at a shiny new toy through a shop window: I can't wait to get my hands on it and play with it, but I don't really know what it can do."
Woo hoo! I hope 'offloading' MS Office to the CPU is next!
Seriously, though, is this supposed to be a feature?
FUNK!
It seems fairly unlikely that they will give a harsh viewpoint of DX10.
Imagine this scenario:
- FSX developer says something about DX10 (it is a mild critique of lack of Device Caps etc.)
- MS heavy circles around the developer
- Developer starts to sweat
- MS heavy circles to front of Developer and looks him up and down
- Developers starts trembling, starts to speak
- Developer is interrupted by fist to stomach and drops to the floor
- MS Heavy (Nazy voice): You will choose your words more wisely next time Her Developer
- Developer: uuhhhhhhh ye-
- MS Heavy: VOT? VOT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
- Developer: yeesss supreme leader
- MS Heavy: Das is much better.... carry on.
You forgot some of their most popular games:
Pac-man, Pole Position, Galaga, and Dig Dug.
And I'm pretty sure those mainly ran on their own hardware (with coin slots).
The /. title is one "do" and a punctuation mark short of being a question.