I am proper looking forward to seeing what DX12 brings. I don't expect massive performance games but turning the effects up to 11 should be sweet. Hopefully some PC exclusives built around DX12 are in the works and we can see the true potential of this new API.
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Why Windows 10 and DirectX 12 Represent a Big Step Forward for Gaming
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I am proper looking forward to seeing what DX12 brings. I don't expect massive performance games but turning the effects up to 11 should be sweet. Hopefully some PC exclusives built around DX12 are in the works and we can see the true potential of this new API.
No no you cant say that. They put a start button in there, so it must be good.
Depends - moving the basic rendering pipeline over to DX12 isn't that difficult (but in itself not much of an immediate advantage either) but a lot of engines will be developed with deeply entrenched features built around earlier APIs some of which will be no trivial task to optimise or replace with DX12 features and mostly simply won't be done. It might allow for some newer features to be included but to fully take advantage of the benefits of DX12 you'd really need a new generation of a given game engine.
EDIT: That said it should be possible in games that have a lot of resources being loaded/destroyed in real time unless there is anything too deep rooted to re-implement through DX12 and even when the performance difference isn't huge there should be a big difference in how smooth the game runs.
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There's a big slowdown in that vid at 57secs yet the fps stays the same
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I'll go with the latter Rroff, that Drop goes on long enough for it to show if the FPS counter was ingame.
It pains me to say it but this will be true. Something I seriously hope I am wrong on and time will tell but seeing the last few PC releases, it hasn't been a great time for the PC community
There is a demo video out there somewhere of some Chinese style fighting game that was ported to dx12 from 11 and its saying how amazing a port was.
It really wasn't amazing, 1 fps more on a 30fps average - a bit more eye candy.
It wasn't mind blowing - i cant guess maybe a 5% increase. You don't really notice tbh.
Edit :found it
It really wasn't amazing, 1 fps more on a 30fps average - a bit more eye candy.
It wasn't mind blowing - i cant guess maybe a 5% increase. You don't really notice tbh.
Edit :found it
It pains me to say it but this will be true. Something I seriously hope I am wrong on and time will tell but seeing the last few PC releases, it hasn't been a great time for the PC community
It's been horrific but I don't see why they would change. Games will continue to be ported to PC with a few developers building for PC and porting to console
If only they really knew the PC market and weren't so lazy!Its "easy" to port your engine to DX12 as in it initialises the DX12 device and renders everything through it - much harder to actually add or recode for real DX12 features to a game engine that will take advantage of what the API can offer.
Sadly a good few devs will just use DX12 as a shortcut so they don't have to utilise techniques like batching rather than implement those kind of techniques to get the most out of the API and the new capabilities that could bring.
Sadly a good few devs will just use DX12 as a shortcut so they don't have to utilise techniques like batching rather than implement those kind of techniques to get the most out of the API and the new capabilities that could bring.
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I switched to Win 10 last night and the performance leap is frackin amazing, Unity went from 30.1 to 30.5 fps, Far Cry 4 from 29.3 to 29.7 fps, Watchdogs...well Watchdogs is Watchdog's need I say more... Joking aside I've not had any issues yet and I've booted up and had a play with about 7 games so far. I need to try a few others like Deadpool on Steam and Mass Effect 1 on U-play (My Steam copy works, go figure) which will not work since I moved from Win 7 to Win 8.1. It'd be nice if they miraculously started working again.
It pains me to say it but this will be true. Something I seriously hope I am wrong on and time will tell but seeing the last few PC releases, it hasn't been a great time for the PC community
It's been horrific but I don't see why they would change. Games will continue to be ported to PC with a few developers building for PC and porting to console
Especially since the PC Gaming market is worth a lot more money, and reaches many more people as well.
MS, UBI and others keep saying they've seen the light but so far they've just been spouting nonsense. I do hope some developers really to take advantage of the new tech and what PC's can do.
Gota laugh at how Microsoft and Nvidia chum DX12 up over an AMD console Game that will never see the light of day on PC.
We have had discussions over this video in the CryEngine Developers Forum.
Unfortunately thats not DX12.
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Lavizh said:
Zezeri said:
DX12 has not been released for Cryengine. yet.
http://www.cryengine.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=355&t=130448&p=1269945#p1269945
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Gota laugh at how Microsoft and Nvidia chum DX12 up over an AMD console Game that will never see the light of day on PC.
It was an early sample showing that DX12 was coming and to PC. And proved by running Forza (XBOX exclusive) on Nvidia hardware.
I know
a game designed to run on AMD hardware and will never come to PC. don't you think that makes it amusing?