Pemalite said:
JEMC said:
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World of Warcraft now supports DirectX 12, does no longer support fullscreen exclusive mode
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/world-of-warcraft-now-supports-directx-12-does-no-longer-support-fullscreen-exclusive-mode/
It appears that Blizzard has made some noteworthy rendering changes to World of Warcraft as this massive MMORPG does no longer support the DX9 API. Instead, the team has now added full support for Microsoft’s latest API, DirectX 12, meaning that players can now choose between DX11 and DX12.
While it appears that the team has not implemented any exclusive DX12 features or improvements, it’s a pretty cool addition. Also, do note that the DX12 mode is only available right now for AMD users. NVIDIA users can enable it, however performance takes a noticeable hit (so for now stick with DX11).
Blizzard has also removed the fullscreen exclusive mode that it supported before. As such, gamers can now choose between Windowed and Fullscreen Windowed. Moreover, the game has ditched its old “low, medium, high” settings and is now using sliders from 1 to 10.
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Hoping Blizz does something similar for StarCraft, Diablo 3 and Overwatch, especially Overwatch, the reduced CPU overhead that DX12 brings would be great for the old spare rig.
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Really?, so far DX 12 has hindered performance on my end with my CPU, not that it's old and ancient, but my 6700k has suffered performance losses when rolling with DX 12, let alone BWM, and WoW is already dated and somehow demands more power from my i7-6700k and GTX 1080ti at 1440p, which means DX 12 and no full screen mode means I'll suffer even more performance loss, which tells me to basically not play the game ever again.
I totally get old CPU's getting some form of boost out of this, but it's become annoying over the years to see DX 12 not giving a really good boost to current and new CPU's over DX 11, let alone staying at the same performance level.
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