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You Will Get DirectX 11.2 Only With Windows 8.1

Posted by timothy on from the that's-awfully-imperative-sounding dept.

SmartAboutThings writes "Microsoft has just announced the next version of DirectX, 11.2, on its website. But the real 'problem' is that it is going to be exclusive to Windows 8.1 and next generation consoles — Xbox One and Play Station 4. This is not news, as DirectX 11.1 was exclusive to Windows 7 & 8. But is this going to help Microsoft convince people to ugprade or will make them angry?"

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  1. Re:DirectX on the Playstation? by shione · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ok I did some digging and found this:

    At the Game Developer's Conference (GDC 2013), Sony said, "PS4 Shader Language is very similar to HLSL, allows features BEYOND Direct X 11 and OpenGL 4.0"

    Then some moron interpreted that as meaning Sony would use directx and extend its features but all it meant is Sony saying their shader language would be better than direct 11 and opengl 4.0.

  2. Re:So it's going to be downvoted. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, the difference from Vista + SP2 + bunch of hotfixes to 7 is hard to spot.
    Try the original RTM Vista. Say hello to horribly slow explorer file copy, indexer and background defrag kicking in at the most inappropriate times, paranoid default UAC settings, ...