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DX11 to be announced in 2~ weeks, nvidia to talk about it too...

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Microsoft will start talking about DirectX 11 in less than two weeks. Sources have confirmed that Microsoft game technology conference, previously known as Meltdown and now renamed to Gamefest 2008, will be the place where Microsoft plans to officially announce DirectX 11.

This conference takes place on the 22 and 23 July in Seattle, Washington and it will set you back $550 if you register online. You can find some more details about the conference here.

The big feature of DirectX 11 is Tessellation/Displacement while we also heard that Multithreaded Rendering and Compute Shaders are part of it. DirectX 11 also brings Shader model 5.0 but we don’t know many details about it.

It looks like DirectX 11 will stick to rasterization as there is no any mentioning of Ray tracing support.

Nvidia will also talk about DirectX 11 at its Nvision event / conference in late August 2008.
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http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8345&Itemid=1

Could this be why nVidia is behind on current gen price/performance next to ATI, they're busy working away on a DX11 capable release ?
 
Possibly. But fudzilla is a source that makes the Inq look reliable :)

I guess Nvidia could be skipping the DX10.1 path to go straight to 11 but tbh, that seems unlikely too.
 
If you have to buy Windows 7 rather than it being patched into Windows Vista I'm not bothered.

DirectX 10 has been a complete anticlimax and I feel sorry for anyone who bought Vista just for it.
 
I heard DX11 was going to be released with windows 7 ?

Nvidia have been behind on price performance because for the past 1.5 years they have just regurgitated thier architecture waiting for AMD to release a competitive product. Now that has happened and it is not only competitive on price but performance it has basically blindsided nvidia.

I dont believe the NVIDIA process size and die physical size will allow thier current gen products to compete with the current AMD products.
 
DX10 has been disappointing enough. Give the developers time to figure out how to use it properly before moving on please Microsoft. Unless the radical improvements you were going on about will never happen due to DX10 being flawed?
 
ffallic said:
DX10 has been disappointing enough. Give the developers time to figure out how to use it properly before moving on please Microsoft. Unless the radical improvements you were going on about will never happen due to DX10 being flawed?
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I think microsoft is more worried about thier core business. Vista is a complete disaster and the sooner they can get windows 7 out the better as far as they are concerned, so I believe this announcement will be merely to start of the hype process and give people something to look towards. I dont beleieve we will actually see it untill 2010 or late 2009.
 
The day that I take the plunge and upgrade to Vista :(

Ah well, I don't expect W7 to be around soon enough to make it a completely pointless purchase.
 
Seldarine said:
I dont really think it needs to be elaborated, but I can give you a hint:

" file transfer "
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Oh you mean the fact that vista takes longer to calculate the time to transfer the file than actaully transfer it?

That's why I dual boot. File transfers done in xp after one day when I wanted to copy 250gb over to a new hard drive and vista reckons it was going to take 44 hours :eek:
 
Good lord, DX11 maybe out before Crytek "inadvertently" get Crysis working at its best under DX9 with the upcoming Warhead optimized engine :D Or will anyone be running XP by then ;)
 
Seldarine said:
I dont really think it needs to be elaborated, but I can give you a hint:

" file transfer "
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Hello Seldarine, are you referring to "file transfer speeds"? If so, since Windows Vista service pack 1, I was unaware that it was still such a big issue that you can label Windows Vista a disaster based on it.... :)

Strife212 said:
0% Corporate Adoption Rate?
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Hello Strife212, have you got a source where you received that figure from please? Thanks. :)
 
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