Cos said:
Nyleveia said:
Soleron said:
tonymarraffa said:
It's pretty awesome!
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It's not. This could run on Windows 7 just fine.
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indeed, and ironically the biggest feature they discuss is regarding ram usage... that wont benefit the xbox one since it doesnt have seperate system and gpu ram... thats a pc characteristic.
op sorry but this news is really nothing to get excited about, and certainly not a reason to suddently change opinions about the xbox one, if anything all it does is make microsoft worse because theyre locking out new features to specific os's purely to boost adoption and not in any way down to previous os's being unable to run said software, its pathetic behaviour on microsofts part, even win8 owners gave no option but to upgrade ti utilize said features.
thankfully its not a hardware requirement, so someone will provably hack up the dx release to run on win7 like people did with xp when microsoft pulled the same directx shit with vista.
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2. Yes programmers will utilize this if it makes things easier and improves performance because its for both the PC and Xbox 0ne which will be a large audience
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It's not for PC, it's for a fragment of the PC market, which is pretty small. By the time the install base of the Win8+XBONE crowd is significant enough DX11.2 will long be obsolete. Also they still won't use it much if that takes away precious ressources away from multiplatform development (aka making the game look good on all platforms). Exclusives will probably use the tech, but expect it to be completely ignored by multi-platform developers unless MS offers them a big bag of money.
