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sales2099 on 27 February 2014

VitroBahllee said:

sales2099 said:
So this competes with Unreal Engine 4 and Cryengine?

Anybody care to guess marketshare of these graphics engines?

Not an engine, this is a level above even that. This is how the hardware talks to the software. The Unreal engine USES DirectX.

Oh. Learn something new all the time. Damn good job on MS cornering the market here.

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VitroBahllee on 27 February 2014

sales2099 said:

VitroBahllee said:

sales2099 said:
So this competes with Unreal Engine 4 and Cryengine?

Anybody care to guess marketshare of these graphics engines?

Not an engine, this is a level above even that. This is how the hardware talks to the software. The Unreal engine USES DirectX.

Oh. Learn something new all the time. Damn good job on MS cornering the market here.

Yeah, I don't really understand it exactly lol. But Xbox actually was named for 'DirectXbox' - trippy!

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HumdrumPie on 27 February 2014

Basically, Microsoft wanted a way to standardize the way different parts of the PC communicate. The CPU and GPU specifically. The wide variety of configurations possible on PC were causing problems and some sort of standard was necessary. DirectX was created to create that standard.

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Jaywood2010 on 27 February 2014

Glad to see so many people happy about this. This is awesome for the likes of gamers.

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DirectX 12 exclusive to Windows 9 on PC. You heard it here first!

Kidding.

You are actually correct. They confirmed that a while ago. While sometimes things change, this one seems to be true.

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned.

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 27 February 2014

You just know that its gonna be w8 and w9 exclusive

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stabface on 27 February 2014

sales2099 said:

VitroBahllee said:

sales2099 said:
So this competes with Unreal Engine 4 and Cryengine?

Anybody care to guess marketshare of these graphics engines?

Not an engine, this is a level above even that. This is how the hardware talks to the software. The Unreal engine USES DirectX.

Oh. Learn something new all the time. Damn good job on MS cornering the market here.

Microsoft will have a hard time cornering the market with DirectX when it is probaly considering whether or not to dump the Xbox, and Windows PCs are declining, anyway.

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zarx on 27 February 2014

Man I hope Win9 lives up to the Windows cycle and has rapid adoption if they are making this exclusive. Otherwise adoption will be really slow like 10/11 were.

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shikamaru317 said:

I wonder if this is 11.3 or 12? Hopefully it's 11.3, I want this update to come to Xbox One, and I doubt 12 will come to Xbox One, if past DirectX generations are any indication 12 will be exclusive to Radeon Rx 300 series and GeForce 800 series GPU's.

I was thinking it was DX 12, but I don't think they are ready to talk about Windows 9. Windows 9 will be a big change that breaks some legacy support. In similary ways to how DirectX 10, broke from the DX9's.

So I am with you thinking it's like DirectX 11.3 or 11.2C or something like that. Hopefully, some will be supported by the Xbox One too. So it improved and streamlines their software. (Like how the 360's looks better than most DX 9 applicaitons.)

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned.

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