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DirectX 'Getting In the Way' of PC Game Graphics, Says AMD
Bit-tech recently spoke with Richard Huddy, worldwide developer relations manager of AMD's GPU division, about the lack of a great disparity between PC game graphics and console game graphics, despite the hardware gap. Quoting:
"'We often have at least ten times as much horsepower as an Xbox 360 or a PS3 in a high-end graphics card, yet it's very clear that the games don't look ten times as good. To a significant extent, that's because, one way or another, for good reasons and bad - mostly good, DirectX is getting in the way.' Huddy says that one of the most common requests he gets from game developers is: 'Make the API go away.' 'I certainly hear this in my conversations with games developers,' he says, 'and I guess it was actually the primary appeal of Larrabee to developers – not the hardware, which was hot and slow and unimpressive, but the software – being able to have total control over the machine, which is what the very best games developers want. By giving you access to the hardware at the very low level, you give games developers a chance to innovate, and that's going to put pressure on Microsoft – no doubt at all.'"
Another fucking MS shill comment from a brand new user, surprise surprise. Do you really think we're that dumb here that spouting some ancient stereotypical BS and then saying things like "innovation" and "truly" in the same post as Microsoft are going to fool us?
You could have at least mention TuxRacer or Alien Arena if you didn't want your comment to look like it was written in the 90s.. it isn't about Linux/Microsoft, or nVidia/AMD in this case, it's about Direct3D/OpenGL. Mac OS still has modern games despite not having DirectX. Likewise so does the PS3.
which is totally what she said
Re: "shill", I don't think that word means what you think it means. It's a not a catch-all term for "anyone who doesn't hate Microsoft", you fucking typical Slashdot illiterates. Ah but it's my fault really, expecting intelligence from a festering den of nerd leftoids.