DirectX 12

When Mantle was announced some where saying that Mantle is the XboxOne API. Mantle is a way for PC to get closer to the metal coding wise like Consoles do anyway its just that the PC has beefier parts aswell. MS are saying that Dx12 will get even closer
to metal than consoles or the 360 in particular did in the past. Move and engines and Esram were not put in to bottleneck the console like many believe for some reason. MS have a plan in the design and you will start to see it this year and next.

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Right. I'm not Techy. Okay I am, but not that techy. Direct X12 is what, and why will it help us?

 

Right. I'm not Techy. Okay I am, but not that techy. Direct X12 is what, and why will it help us?

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^ What it is... how it will help... well I guess it could be described as installing a newer, better driver for the X1's hardware.

 

how does it improve on the current revision

 

Mantel is for AMD cards only on PC to help them go closet to the metal as consoles do, it's nothing to do with ps4 or consoles, other then being loosely based around some Microsoft tech, research etc.

 

We only know some key Attributes of dx12 tiled resources which xbox does in hardware not software like open gl does, it also makes use of move engines, off loading processors, parallel processing, audio DSP, esram and the list goes on. All of which the current
generation of engines do not use.

 

-the X1 design is a little quirky and doesn't like current coding methods and engines. This is the true beginning of this console

Oooh, I like the sound of that.

 

The Xbox One won't be able to use DX 12, only new PCs that are running Windows 8.1.

 

LOL AT UR SKILL ur wrong again it will use DX12 it uses DX11.2 already all it needs is a update ms already said all this its why its out this month like the xbox was meant to be

 

@ LOL

"The preliminary notes for the session say that developers asked Microsoft for better tools to "squeeze every last drop of performance out of [their] PC, tablet, phone and
console."

Now I may not know much... And that there might not be an admission that it will be directly applicable to the X1, but I guess we'll find out at GDC now won't we?

 

We have to wait and see whether or not this will be confirmed for the xbox one (I highly doubt this, maybe the console devkits will support DX12?). I do know that in order to use the latest version of Directx for PC, you need to have the latest version of
windows installed and a gpu that supports it.

 

yes that is for a PC DX12 will be on dev kits prob not the console which is the point its the dev kits that help devs make the game lol

 

That may be true for the current version... So I guess we'll have to see what the next version brings.