dx11 go nvidia f**k that dx10.1.

Microsoft Releases DirectX 11 Details
More information on the next evolution of graphics technology.
by Jimmy Thang
July 22, 2008 - Microsoft has released details on DirectX 11, the follow-up application programming interface to DX 10. The DX 11 details were released in a bullet point format at the company's 2008 Gamefest event held in Seattle, Washington today. According to Shacknews, Here's what we know about the upcoming DirectX:

DX 11 will support Windows Vista and future version of the platform, as well as DX 10, DX10.1, and future DX 11 hardware. In addition, a new compute shader technology will allow developers to use the graphics processing unit as a parallel processor. Gamers with multi-core machines will be able to take advantage of DX 11's ability to do multi-threaded resource handling. Finally, the new API will support tessellation, which sets out to blur the line between high quality pre-rendered cut-scenes and scenes rendered in real-time. Tessellation will allow developers to refine models to be smoother when viewed up close.

While these new details do sound promising, Microsoft has not released a launch date for DX 11.

dx11 will probably release with windows 7. since windows 7 is only about 1 to 1.5 years away that will give the hardware vendors time to make the hardware necessary to support it.

doesn't matter though, in a few years intel will have raytracing perfected so that it can run on machines with fewer than 16 cpus and rasterized graphics will be obsolete in their entirety.

its coming out to windows vista

well it also says that it is going to be for the "future version of the platform" which would be windows 7. first sentence of the second paragraph. and just because it comes out with windows 7 doesn't mean it won't be backwards compatible. remember, until dx10 most of the previous dx versions have been backwards compatible.

Microsoft should just make Windows Free, they made enough money to do so.

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