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Fable Legends DX12 Benchmark Stressing High End GPUs
Vigile writes: In preparation for the release of the free-to-play Fable Legends game on both Xbox One and PC this winter, Microsoft and Lionhead Studios released a benchmark today that allows users to test performance of their PC hardware configuration with a DirectX 12 based game engine that pushes the boundaries of render quality. Based on a modified UE4 engine, Fable Legends includes support for asynchronous compute shaders, manual resource barrier tracking and explicit memory management, all new to the DX12 API. Unlike the previous DX12 benchmark, Ashes of the Singularity, which focused mainly on high draw call counts and mass quantities of on-screen units, Fable Legends takes a more standard approach, attempting to improve image quality and shadow reproduction with the new API. PC Perspective has done some performance analysis with the new benchmark and a range of graphics cards, finding that while NVIDIA still holds the lead at the top spot (GTX 980 Ti vs Fury X), the AMD Radeon mid-range products offer better performance (and better value) than the comparable GeForce parts.
Last time DX12 benchmarks were posted, NVIDIA flipped their lid --- DX12 seemed to only hurt their performance, while it gave AMD an easy 25-50% boost and let them catch up to NVIDIA's DX11 numbers. This time, no such comparison. I wonder why.
This forced artificial obsolescence of DirectX12 not being available for Windows 7 (or 8, 8.1) is complete bullshit.
I'm not downgrading to the privacy fuckfest of Windows 10 just to run a benchmark.
You realize all the privacy-rapist features of Win10 have been added to 7/8, right?
you still have the option to uninstall those updates and choose updates manually in windows 7/8. Something you can't do in windows 10. So no.
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Well how? Screen every update to make sure MS don't sneak it in? What people are doing is disabling windows update. That makes Windows 7 not better than XP in terms of obsolescence and security. And really how much can you uninstall? People are finding the Windows 10 install files downloaded despite having ticked no to the Windows 10 offer and having uninstalled the tool.
It has become clear that you are NOT in control of your computer. That privilege is given to either Microsoft or malware authors depending on your OS settings.
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SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Well how? Screen every update to make sure MS don't sneak it in?
Actually, the readmes for the "updates" say right on the tin what they do. You do have to tunnel down to their site to actually read the readmes, because the descriptions in windows update are bullshit, but at least it's possible without decompiling things. So yeah, this is what you have to do now. It's sad. Pathetic, I think. But it's where we are.
Windows 7 appears to be my really for real last version of Windows... I've said it before, but I decided Windows 7 was no more odious than XP. 8, ugh. 8.1, meh. 9, hahaha. 10, nope! So uh... unless they turn Windows 10 into Windows 180 ala the Xbox One [Eighty] I guess this is where the road ends.
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Ok, I'm stupid.
Now that we got this out of the way...
Where the hell can I get a download link?
TFS doesn't have it.
TFA doesn't have it.
A quick search online found... nothing. Only benchmark results. Clearly I am missing something.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)