[Rumor] Win 7 - no DX 12 for you

[AnandThenMan]

Windows 10 is not much of a step forward versus 8 after playing around with it for a bit. The icons look like they were drawn by a 5-year old, the start menu is a mish mash of mUI and Win7. The UI is still from the Fisher Price school of design it just doesn't look like a modern OS to me. I'm not alone I know very few people that actually like the look MS has gone with for 8 and not 10.

So I would not be at all surprised if MS limits DX12 to Win8/10 to try and force people into the OSs.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Will stick with Win7 for the near future. I am NOT requalifying my standard install image just ~1.5 years after making it!
Besides, with the incredible backlog of games, it's not like I'm in a rush to upgrade my OS.
That and I want Aero back (that and D.L.)

 

[2is]

There were rumors and it seems like ms said that windows 7 wouldn't get dx11 but it did.

It got 11, it got partial support for 11.1 and zero support for 11.2. No DX12 support should have been expected.

 

[BSim500]

Biggest question remains though - what will happen to DX12 if such a large percentage of people stick with W7. Games devs are hardly likely to voluntarily cut off half of their own revenue, so it may end up being a repeat of the DX10/Vista flop:-

MS: "You WILL upgrade if you want DX10."

The Market : "No really, we won't..."

Edit: Win8 isn't hideous, but it it took away as much as it gave. Ugly, childish UI aside, Windows Media Center was removed, network map removed (why?), compatibility with some older games was broken (15-30fps frame locks due to a "dumb" dwm that runs constantly on W8 vs unlimited fps on Win7 that's intelligent enough to temporarily disable itself, DOSBox emulates slower on the same hardware for a number of games, some C&C games run way too fast, massive lag on some other games, etc). For those of us with a large collection of old & new games, Win7 is still the pinnacle of compatibility, flexibility & usability.

 

[MisterLilBig]

Biggest question remains though - what will happen to DX12 if such a large percentage of people stick with W7. Games devs are hardly likely to voluntarily cut off half of their own revenue,

Mantle? OpenGL NG? WebGL? SDL2? There are answers. Which are more portable.


Didn't have a problem with Win8 and 8.1, been using it since it came out. Will be getting Win10 also and wont be having a problem with it either.

 

[XiandreX]

Mantle? OpenGL NG? WebGL? SDL2? There are answers. Which are more portable.


Didn't have a problem with Win8 and 8.1, been using it since it came out. Will be getting Win10 also and wont be having a problem with it either.

I concur... +1

 

[Ajay]

Windows 10 is not much of a step forward versus 8 after playing around with it for a bit. The icons look like they were drawn by a 5-year old, the start menu is a mish mash of mUI and Win7. The UI is still from the Fisher Price school of design it just doesn't look like a modern OS to me. I'm not alone I know very few people that actually like the look MS has gone with for 8 and not 10.

So I would not be at all surprised if MS limits DX12 to Win8/10 to try and force people into the OSs.

Agree on the UI for the most part, but I'm liking Win10 (customer preview) so far (in a VM). I'll probably go from 7 to 10.

 

[Borealis7]

please no Aero if it doesn't let the GPU go idle. in the past few years the first thing i did when installing windows was to turn off Aero themes.