Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
Nemesis I think if MS implement a physics API from any 1 competitor in DX11 then they are going to get sued by the other.
Under what law? This is so profoundly absurd it is hard to imagine how it could play out. MS is not a competitor with ANY of the parties involved nor do they have a vested interest in financial terms in seeing any one format come out on top. There is no basis to sue any of the companies no matter what happens in terms of Physics support or lack of in DX11. Supporting a particular extension inside of an API isn't going to get anyone in trouble unless it is MS violating someone else's IP(which they won't be even considering for any of the players we are talking about).
That said, I would assume that Intel and AMD would want MS to leave support out at this point. Neither of them are in a position that they could compete with nVidia, and AMD seems to be staunchly opposed to even trying to go down that route at any point in the next several years. AMD seems bound and determined to make the ATi wing suffer for the benefit of their CPU division no matter what the end costs to the company. What both Intel and AMD have to contend with currently is that neither of them are in a position to compete with nV at the moment on that front. As soon as Intel is in a position where they can compete, they will attempt to push the format that benefits them the most as hard as possible, then MS will be dealing with three different directions competitors are wanting to bring the industry. MS will not roll a proprietary standard into D3D as a requirement. They have rolled formerly proprietary standards in before, DXTC is S3TC bit for bit, but once it was rolled into D3D it became an open standard under D3D(although it was still proprietary under OpenGL).
As far as ray tracing goes, it solves one rather small problem and introduces a ton of new ones. It it is not the long terms solution, it is overall fairly inferior to rasterization and while local illumination with it may have some benefits there are much larger detriments to global illumination. At some point a viable method of radiosity would be the ideal, the problem currently is the amount of precomputed data needed to use the technique. Rasterization is going to be around for a long while yet. Reflective spheres are nice and all, but that is about all ray tracing has going for it at the moment.
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