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

"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."



fail.

double fail.

Thank god for all of the fools who rush out and pay outrageous prices for unproven tech that won't be properly implemented for years, it makes things alot cheaper for those of us who are a bit more sensible. When Crysis came out a couple of quick and easy hacks allowed me to play it on Win2k of all things, and implement all of the "DX10 exclusive" crap that was artificially bound to Vista and DX10 hardware, and according to the author of the DX10 effects hack he got a better framerate in XP, totally negating the idea that only Vista and DX10 could do these effects efficiently. Oh sure there were slight differences with the true DX10, if you like playing your games looking at the monitor with a magnifying glass. I just don't get all of the people who rushed out and bought Vista and 500 dollar gfx cards and Crysis was still 9 months away, and then all you get for that 700 bucks you spent is a better framerate, not anything truly amazing that I couldn't get with my 500 dollar machine. (self built mind you, don't expect to get a 500 dollar Dell and have it be much more than a web browser.) And thats the other thing, when most ppl buy a machine its got a quad core monster CPU and a hamster running in a wheel for a gfx chip, why Dell and Compaq and those guys balance their PCs that way I'll never know, I've had my dad and ex wife spend way more on thier machines that can't do half the stuff mine can even though thier CPUs are far superior to mine, so putting more strain on the GPU isn't going to help most folks out. This leap to DX11 sounds boring really, maybe they learned that going overboard and making it sound like this big mind blowing thing just was a big set up for failure, I'm still waiting for the big DX10 killer app that puts my DX9 based rig to shame.

about freakin time, I was wondering when they were going to upgrade the ancient DX10.1...

I'm about to build myself a new computer, should I wait for the Direct X 11 cards or just get a DirectX 10.1 4850 Radeon.

Man people need to stop using XP.

this is going to be damn awesome. Several levels of damn awesome!

I can't wait to play all the many, many DX 11 games that will come out and Duke Nukem Forever on my 80 inch OLED monitor while I'm in my flying car.

ok so how many cards will nvidia make in the span of 6 mounths and piss me off because i bought the first one to support Dx 11 so i can run crysis on high setings only to have it chug when i look at water becuse the first gen cards were crap and now i cant afford the new ones because i spent $600 on the first gen card only to get screwd over stupid nvidia and their apple like apple like aproce to relesing hardware but i love them becuase they are so much better then ati becuase i was screwed over by them even harder (not going there) so tell me when i can buy a good card that wont chug on the cutting edge games plz. oh and Vista user and i love it and proud of it!

whats funny is that they found out you can run dx10 "functions" in crsys under dx 9 ... google a bit and you be surprised at this big ripoff

What the fuck?!?! I just bought myself a new computer that hardly runs crysis on DX10 and you're telling to buy a new PC??? Fuck no! If DX10 is going to be released anytime soon im buying myself an X360...

"since, y'know, most every computer nowadays has multiple cores"

I thought you was being sarcastic. You got to be joking? Why would you think that?

who give directx 11 for xp