DirectX 11 detailed; Vista and DX 10 / 10.1 hardware supported

I saw a squirrel. He was goin' like this...

But I just got my dang 4870!

Fuck DX10.

Right now, I'm pretty damn happy with everything that poor ugly DX9 Unreal Engine 3 can throw at me.

Lets see if they can actually deliver this time. From 9c to 10.1 theres hardly a huge difference, not big enough to really notice. If DX11 can make a huge leap, then I'll be impressed.

so whens this coming out? I was planing on buying a card for spore in september, but if this is coming in janurary or something, I may just buy a cheap $50 older card for spore, and wait the 4 or 5 months and buy a nice dX11 card for like $400. Currently running integrated graphics. Only good for watching HD movies, almost all games unplayable :(. Rest of my specs, very high to handle any game.

And I am sure all 15 people who use Vista will be stoked by the news.

Until they allow DX10 and 11 to run on XP who cares.

Tesselmania!: Vista Edition, anyone?

Eh, if it's free I don't see any reason to complain. I have an 8600 in my first computer and a 6800 in my second one. Both play games fine. I doubt when DX11 comes out I'll have anything to worry about.

Follow the curve, I say, don't try to lead it (unless you have a lot of money to blow).

Who gives a crap if i can't run it on XP.

I liked Vista. It's pretty. :(

I think its safe to say XP support is not something to be looking out for. I'm happy with XP, but some people here need to get a brain. If there is new Windows OS info, its not going to be XP related.

This is not good.

If it comes out B4 the new windows, all the XP owning pc gamers are doomed.

This is important, very important. Much moreso than what Joystiq's Chris Grant is making it sound. DX11 is going to shift gaming off your PC's processor, and ram, onto strictly the GPU itself. This is the way the future is headed for PC Gaming, and PC is going to completely revive itself to mass market in a big way.

It's not going to matter what PC you have, as long as you have the correct GPU slot, PCI-E, which all mobos feature nowadays, these things will work no problem. What this means? The only thing people will need to buy in the future to turn their PC's into gaming machines is a GPU, plain and simple, and the way pricing is going, it's going to be very cheap.

Smart move, and something Intel realizes, and is why they are jumping into the high end GPU market. Take a look at Project Offset, bought by Intel, amazingly impressive, and certainly not for their integrated line of chips.

Worried about gaming on the sofa in the living room and not your home office console gamers? Check out wireless HDMI, running on N based routers, it's amazing what's going on in that front. We'll be wirelessly streaming HD content (video games and movies of course) to any screen in the house. Wireless peripherals are already here, and there you have it. This is basically the merging of console and PC gaming that's coming a lot sooner then later.

On another note, I wouldn't be surprised to see Alan Wake make the DX11 jump, the game has obviously been reset for DX11 and probably the next Xbox. They software sellers, and that for some reason gives me that feeling.

I wonder if true DX11 support will only be for Windows 7. Par for the Microsoft course.

Who cares about this? When will DX10 become available on XP?

WTF? I totally screwed up my first sentence... it should read, "You make it sound like..."

Bleh. I'm done with PC gaming ;;

This is funny, Sony gives o developers the Cell, with additional Cores to do parallel processing and everyone scream because it is a difficult architecture, now MS want to build DX11 with support for parallel processing, and this is cool.

Looks like Sony is a few step ahead (at least on this front, still at the back in comparison with Live features)