AMD Previews DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

An anonymous reader writes "AMD invited 100 people up to their private suite in the hotel that Quakecon 2009 is being hosted at for a first look at gaming on one of their upcoming DirectX 11 graphics cards. This card has not been officially named yet, but it has the internal code name of 'Evergreen,' and was first shown to the media back at Computex over in Taiwan earlier this year. The guys from Legit Reviews were shown two different systems running DX11 hardware. One system was set up running a bunch of DX11 SDKs and the other was running a demo for the upcoming shooter Wolfenstein. The video card appears to be on schedule for its launch next month."

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Re:Why?

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DX10 was a flop because Vista was a flop. If MS let users of XP grab DX10, DX10 would have caught on in games, but it was Vista-only and no game makers were about to (or are about to) invest a ton of money in a game that's either Vista-only or in the work to make a DX9 game actually make full use of DX10 features. DX10 just was irrelevant because a great majority of the market wasn't able to use it.