Games for windows now free + dx11

LoadsaMoney · 22 Jul 2008 at 21:19

Erm well of course Dx11 will support Dx10 hardware.

mr.sly · 22 Jul 2008 at 21:22

schizo220168 said:
shadow run no good then ?

Haven't played it myself, but I didn't hear good things about it at the time.

Shamikebab · 22 Jul 2008 at 21:34

Very interesting news!

AWPC · 22 Jul 2008 at 21:54

Good news and hopefully boost PC gaming even more as most new titles are GFWL and the free online should increase game sales now.

HangTime · 22 Jul 2008 at 22:04

willhub said:
I know one thing, it will boost sales on DX10/10.1 cards as people wont feel they want to wait for DX11 cards as much since DX10 cards will work on DX11 games proberbly in DX11 mode aswell.

I doubt it will have much effect (at least not for another year), as if people are in the market for a new card I couldn't see them hanging around forever with a slow card anyway. People need a DX10 card to play DX10 games, even if they weren't able to run DX11. Heck, a lot of people buy cards for performance in older DX versions (say, a 9700pro for dx8 performance, 8800 for dx9 performance etc), never mind worrying about future ones!

Edinho · 22 Jul 2008 at 22:16

So dx10 is useless crap we always thought it was ala dx8.

XPE · 22 Jul 2008 at 22:31

After doing a bit more reading it looks like dx11 will be compatible with dx 10 tech, so it looks like if you have a dx10 cards there is no need to upgrade.

mr.sly · 22 Jul 2008 at 22:32

Edinho said:
So dx10 is useless crap we always thought it was ala dx8.

I think that's abit harsh. I'm sure it's laid the ground work for what Dx11 will be.

Lightnix · 22 Jul 2008 at 23:55

How about a "new compute shader technology" that gets your GPU ready to do more than just boring old 3D graphics

Well, that pretty much marks the end for CUDA and Brook+ then. We'll have to see how OpenCL competes against DX11 stream processor computation goes then.

bledd · 23 Jul 2008 at 00:02

Snakedoctor said:
What's a "Fall"? Do you mean Autumn? Or are they falling from somewhere?

when the leaves fall

easy way to remember british summer time changes..

spring forward
fall back

Edinho · 23 Jul 2008 at 00:39

bledd. said:
when the leaves fall

easy way to remember british summer time changes..

spring forward
fall back

Off topic but i remember it by "black is back" :cool: