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dahuman said: That's like 2 years ago when devs were still mostly doing work with DX9 level graphics though. Most of the devs that bitched at the time were always bitching about DX9 because it does perform kinda bad in Windows, MS finally got the fucking message at least and is improving the overall. |
No. The full story started when AMD said MS needs to drop the DX (DX11 not the DX9) to have a far better performance in their GPUs like consoles. Carmack said the consoles performs 2x the PC with same hardware not only due the API (DX) but because the optimizations for single specs too.
At the end you are comparing a abstraction API (DX) with some more close to metal (consoles)... that's what AMD wants to say.
And DX11 give less freedom to developers than DX9... it is really attached to OS... DX9 not so much... in this aspect devs like more the DX9 style.
