Will it at least be using DX10? Or do I/we need to force it in the configs?
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I hope DX11, that would give the map makers something to really impress us all with in the future. Besides I want to use my DX11 GPU for something.
Yeah, I'm one of the (probably many) people who have a rig that runs most games well enough under XP, but there's no way I can sacrifice the potential 20% loss in framerates in going to Windows 7 with DX11.
So I'm hoping the DX9 version still looks good.
As far as I know, Win XP doesn't support DX 10 either.
Ahh, but it does!
The only reason XP can't use DX10, is because MS needed a carrot to dangle in front of us so we'd go buy Wndows Vista, and thus, they deliberately sabotaged XP support.
But there does exist 3'rd party workarounds that enable it to work on XP, slightly shady though they may be..
The no DX10 on XP was not some scheme by MS - that is ridiculous. It was and is impractical to re-architect XP to do all that was brought to the table with DX10. MS said so, and the DX10 on XP stuff from the ALKY group, later Falling Leaf, and now the junk pawned off by some Russian hacks are all from the same original guys. Big plans for MAC / LINUX / Windows game support, later changed to be a project just for DX10 on XP, later changed to "we bit off more than we could chew, Microsoft was right, we give up, sorry if you sent us money...bye", leaving the Russian (Georgian) crap scraps of ALKY pawned off as their own. Junk.Unfortunately that carrot is starting to look good to me .
In layman terms, what all would DX11 bring to the table?
Unfortunately that carrot is starting to look good to me .
It shoulden't, if you're gonna upgrade, then get Win-7, getting Vista now would be worthless..
I'll be building a new rig soon, and i plan to do just that, so i have Win XP 32-bit that will run all my old stuff, and i can still do retro gaming very easilly, and then have Win-7 64-bit to run all the cutting edge stuff.
I would be happy if Open Gl was being used, but that's only cause I don't like the iron grip of the pc gaming market Microsoft created with direct 3d.