Direct X12 the game changer

Fatalshock8912 · Mar 9, 2014

I wasnt quite sold on the possibility of this actually happening, but I'm beginning to come round. DirectX 12 announced in March, but PS4 to launch in November. Games falling short In Res department, yet Microsoft barely bat an eye.

It all kinda... fits.

xenomorph v1 · Mar 9, 2014

@ voteDC

"You can run City and Origins in DirectX 9 mode should you wish, PC versions of course. This is because huge amounts of PCs still run Windows XP, which of course only supports up to DirectX 9."

Maybe the cutting off of support for XP in April is for more than just ageing reasons?

MessiahBrowny · Mar 9, 2014

Great news hopfully shut up a few people

N7 Gh0stz · Oct 31, 2018

Direct X is the reason the Xbox is called the X box coz the old xbox has direct x

The1337gamer

Meant to say Direct3D 11.x on last line.

voteDC

I said it supports it. The hardware in the PS4 is capable of running DirectX 11, indeed there is no reason (other than licensing I suppose) that it wouldn't be able to support DX12 too.

The One and PS4 use pretty off the shelf PC hardware.

Mark Sherwood

Same as BHC. Anything to make things better in the short or long run, is something I wont grit my teeth over

BHC Bluez n 2z

Well, I'm not going to complain about having prettier looking games.

f00xm4n

I can understand dx9 not adding much to a game, esp. If it's not even wrote for it, and your graphics card could probably handle dx11 but the game is aimed at a lowest denominator. This is dx12 and the console can run games wrote on old engines (360 dx7
?) Which we are currently seeing, bf4 etc. So imagine new engines wrote for dx12 like a new halo, is going to rock.

Direct X12 the game changer