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DirectX 10 Hardware Is Now Obsolete
ela_gervaise writes "SIGGRAPH 2007 was the stage where Microsoft dropped the bomb, informing gamers that the currently available DirectX 10 hardware will not support the upcoming DirectX 10.1 in Vista SP1. In essence, all current DX10 hardware is now obsolete. But don't get too upset just yet: 'Gamers shouldn't fret too much - 10.1 adds virtually nothing that they will care about and, more to the point, adds almost nothing that developers are likely to care about. The spec revision basically makes a number of things that are optional in DX10 compulsory under the new standard - such as 32-bit floating point filtering, as opposed to the 16-bit current. 4xAA is a compulsory standard to support in 10.1, whereas graphics vendors can pick and choose their anti-aliasing support currently. We suspect that the spec is likely to be ill-received. Not only does it require brand new hardware, immediately creating a minuscule sub-set of DX10 owners, but it also requires Vista SP1, and also requires developer implementation.'"
In graphics cards that is. Is that required in 10 or 10.1?
i take it you're not a game developer and/but a linux user yes?
OGL calls are forced through DirectX, therefore, never being faster than DX.
What a troll
GPLv2: I want my rights, I want my phone call! DRM: What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
And not just the users. Developers must be pretty pissed too by now. I hope they all move to OpenGL (which does prettier graphics anyways) and leave this substandard MS technology behind. Of course then Games would run on OS X and Linux as well, with small changes.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
This leaves just:
Maybe I'll reserve judgement until I hear another explanation from some other source. Waiting for confirmation from more than one source, omg that's almost as bad as calling your mom a ho.Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
I take it you're s trolland not someone with a clue yes?
Most all Games are not using direct X, Almost NO game makers are supportijng directX10 until Vista is past SP1.
you could have trolled better if you took 5 minutes to look.
Windows XP is an incompatible, useless and obsolete product that only an idiot would use. And Vista is just a fucking piece of shit. Now they come up with this, so the retard who spent $500 on a gfx card has just wasted his money on something that's already obsolete.
Next time buy a console and install a Unix-like OS on your computer as it's meant to be. The proprietary piece of shit Microsoft system is the most useless piece of software ever created.
Glass
Has had better features for a long time than OpenGL. Vendor extensions are ok, but you can't rely on those. Maybe OGL 3 will fix it, but there's absolutely no reason to bash something as progressive as D3D. Microsoft has been developing next gen consoles for gaming, they know what they are doing.
I think I'll puke now..
Thanks for the intelligent contribution and rebutal excellent work, I'll be sure to look out for your clever posts in future.
Why should I bother. I don't explain deeply philosophical things to my cat, it wouldn't get it anyway. If it scratches the wrong piece of furniture, I just kick it while still on the crime scene, and it knows better next time.
I thought I'd go for the same here.
Thats good. SO if video cards put dx10.1 compatible on their box, then they can not show rediculous speeds which correspond to running a dx10 card with all real features turned off.
Seems like more a move of politics than anything, and a good one I think.