DirectX 11 To Be Announced This Month

[OCGuy]

http://www.fudzilla.com/index....=view&id=8345&Itemid=1

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

hmmm

 

[OCGuy]

My thoughts exactly...can I please get some DX10 games before I have to upgrade to Windows 7??????

 

[wadkar]

ohh no, not again
why MS wants to forces its new OS for new DX standards?

can't they just make it moduler and keep it different from the Vista shit?

~S

 

[Creig]

Well, it looks like we'll have at least another year and a half under DX10.1 before we need to start worrying about its successor. And that's IF Microsoft get DX11 out on time.

 

[zrush]

I guess they're trying to wipe their hands clean of Vista entirely. Windows 7 with DX11. Vista and DX10 are walking the cold road of Windows ME into loathsome obscurity. I'm glad I never upgraded.

 

[quadomatic]

Whawhawhawha...WHAT?

They're kidding right?

Wait....Vista was released at the beginning of 07, and they want to launch the next version only 3 years after that?

There were 6 years between xp and vista!

 

[james1701]

What says we need to go to Windows 7 to get DX11? Older versions did not need an operating system upgrade in order to run them. They only needed a graphics card that was able to make use of it.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: quadomatic
Whawhawhawha...WHAT?

They're kidding right?

Wait....Vista was released at the beginning of 07, and they want to launch the next version only 3 years after that?

There were 6 years between xp and vista!

That was a mistake Microsoft won't be making again.

How much time passed between 95,98, 2000, ME, XP?

Exactly.

People seem to have very short memories...

 

[Aberforth]

Relax ppl, DX11 games won't be out until 2011, Windows 7 will be released next December.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: Creig
Well, it looks like we'll have at least another year and a half under DX10.1

Errr...you game using DX10.1? Do tell........

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: n7

Originally posted by: quadomatic
Whawhawhawha...WHAT?

They're kidding right?

Wait....Vista was released at the beginning of 07, and they want to launch the next version only 3 years after that?

There were 6 years between xp and vista!

That was a mistake Microsoft won't be making again.

How much time passed between 95,98, 2000, ME, XP?

Exactly.

People seem to have very short memories...

if you're going to mention 2000 you might as well throw in the other versions of NT as 2000 was never really meant to be for the masses (even though it turned out to be much better than ME for that purpose)

however you're definitely right, people really have forgotten Microsoft's past trend of OS releases

even with the shorter trend it still isn't as bad as Apple

 

[nemesismk2]

No I don't think DirectX 11 will be released this month.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: nemesismk2
No I don't think DirectX 11 will be released this month.

I don't either, but I'd believe news stating it will be announced this month and released in late '09

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Aberforth
Relax ppl, DX11 games won't be out until 2011, Windows 7 will be released next December.

Any source for this? Link?

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Creig
Well, it looks like we'll have at least another year and a half under DX10.1 before we need to start worrying about its successor. And that's IF Microsoft get DX11 out on time.

There will have to be some DX10.1 games released before we're in "DX10.1 times".

Hard to speculate on any unreleased software - it's always "when it's done" and often delayed.

In the case of games, it often doesn't even show for years. Anyone else remember,"I'm going Voodoo5 for Duke Nuke'm Forever"? Or when Stalker was originally supposed to launch? Or how many years it was between Prey's ETA and actual launch?

Short version: It may be a while till DX10.1 or DX11 matter.

 

[Aberforth]

Originally posted by: nRollo

Originally posted by: Aberforth
Relax ppl, DX11 games won't be out until 2011, Windows 7 will be released next December.

Any source for this? Link?

Well, Windows 7 will definitely be released in next Dec (RTM release, news) and the official DX 11 support doesn't begin until then, however developers are encouraged to play with DX11 beta SDK's before that. So on an average if a game incorporates DX11 it won't be out until Q4 2010 or Q1 2011. Think about it, DX10 was announced way back in 2005, we didn't get compatible hardware in time, so we wrote our programs using software based rendering. Learning and Implementation takes time.

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31

Originally posted by: Creig
Well, it looks like we'll have at least another year and a half under DX10.1

Errr...you game using DX10.1? Do tell........

Nowhere did I say I'm gaming under DX10.1, did I? I simply pointed that the most modern DirectX standard is going to be sitting at v10.1 for at least another year and a half before we need to worry about DX11.

 

[SniperDaws]

Dont worry about it, youll not see DX11 or Windows 7 becasue by the time its pushed back and pushed back 2012 will be on us and we all know what happens then dont we.......















......The end of the world

 

[Aberforth]

Originally posted by: SniperDaws
Dont worry about it, youll not see DX11 or Windows 7 becasue by the time its pushed back and pushed back 2012 will be on us and we all know what happens then dont we.......

......The end of the world

Don't count on it, MS is pushing Windows 7 like anything, they lost money delaying vista - they won't do it again.

About the end of the world, I really don't think the world will end in a blink of an eye. It is a slow and gradual process, it is already happening and you have plenty of time to whine about it.

 

[Acanthus]

Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows Armageddon

If they once again crunch gamers into a forced upgrade to keep playing games, there will be another class action lawsuit against MS...

 

[bunnyfubbles]

IIRC, 2000 came with DX7 which dates back to Windows 98...of which I'm pretty sure both OSes can be upgraded up to DirectX 9.0c...

also, I don't think anyone has said anything about Windows 7 being required for DX11, although considering Vista is required for DX10 it might appear that way, but there would be a chance of DX11 being available for Vista...

and on a side note, I've noticed that we have too many ATers treating Windows 2000 like it was a common Windows distro meant for everyone...yes, it was capable of being used as such and a far better solution than ME, but it wasn't targeted that way and thus really wasn't adopted as much as it probably could/should have been...

 

[PingSpike]

If something doesn't work, just do it again but harder and faster! Yeah!

 

[quadomatic]

Originally posted by: n7

Originally posted by: quadomatic
Whawhawhawha...WHAT?

They're kidding right?

Wait....Vista was released at the beginning of 07, and they want to launch the next version only 3 years after that?

There were 6 years between xp and vista!

That was a mistake Microsoft won't be making again.

How much time passed between 95,98, 2000, ME, XP?

Exactly.

People seem to have very short memories...

Yeah, I realized that right after I posted it, lol.

Still, I'm not sure why they would release Windows 7 so quickly. I don't think most businesses will even pick up Vista after Windows 7 is released. A lot of businesses only switched over to XP in the past year or 2.

But, I suppose it's not about them. It's about the suckers...

Whoops! I meant, the lovely early adopters!

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
IIRC, 2000 came with DX7 which dates back to Windows 98...of which I'm pretty sure both OSes can be upgraded up to DirectX 9.0c...

also, I don't think anyone has said anything about Windows 7 being required for DX11, although considering Vista is required for DX10 it might appear that way, but there would be a chance of DX11 being available for Vista...

and on a side note, I've noticed that we have too many ATers treating Windows 2000 like it was a common Windows distro meant for everyone...yes, it was capable of being used as such and a far better solution than ME, but it wasn't targeted that way and thus really wasn't adopted as much as it probably could/should have been...

DX10 and Vista should be a one-time thing. The entire driver model was rearchitected for threading and virtual memory purposes; I can't imagine that happening again.