Richard Huddy of AMD says DX API & Consoles holding back PC gaming visuals.

[SirPauly]

Richard Huddy Chimed in a bit more at Beyond3d:

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1537440&postcount=63

 

[SentientNr6]

2. He is discounting the value of backwards compatibility. Older games are often pretty neat games to have, and trying to get an older DX game to work is a nightmare because MS is not maintaining backwards compatibility.

Ironically I developped a DirectX7 game in 2000 and it still works these days. It even runs at resolutions it wasn't designed for. So excuse me if I find this a strange statement? Any facts?

 

[HeXen]

Drakhan and Omikron still run on my W7 PC. i think those were dx7.