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DirectX 11 to Get Announced This Month [FUD]

post #1 of 16
7/9/08 at 10:38pm
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Many rumors are beginning to suround the DX11 API. One of them: the possible elimination of NVIDIA's CUDA technology.

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Launch in late 2009


Microsoft will start talking about DirectX 11 in less than two weeks. Sources have confirmed that Microsoft game technology conference, previously known as Meltdown and now renamed to Gamefest 2008, will be the place where Microsoft plans to officially announce DirectX 11.

This conference takes place on the 22 and 23 July in Seattle, Washington and it will set you back $550 if you register online. You can find some more details about the conference here.

The big feature of DirectX 11 is Tessellation/Displacement while we also heard that Multithreaded Rendering and Compute Shaders are part of it. DirectX 11 also brings Shader model 5.0 but we don’t know many details about it.

It looks like DirectX 11 will stick to rasterization as there is no any mentioning of Ray tracing support.

Nvidia will also talk about DirectX 11 at its Nvision event / conference in late August 2008.
Source: Fudzilla
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post #2 of 16
7/9/08 at 10:47pm
could technology please slow down or become cheap
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post #3 of 16
7/9/08 at 11:00pm
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could technology please slow down or become cheap
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post #4 of 16
7/9/08 at 11:23pm
New upgrades???

Hah!

My Commodore 64 in all its 10 years never required upgrades to play the latest games!!!
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post #5 of 16
7/10/08 at 1:00am
So I would assume this would be part of the next OS release in 2010
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post #6 of 16
7/10/08 at 7:09am
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I think it'll come out before then...for Vista. (If I remember correctly, XP started with DX8)
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post #7 of 16
7/10/08 at 11:16am
WoW cool?
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post #8 of 16
7/10/08 at 12:58pm
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Originally Posted by Buck View Post
One of them: the possible elimination of NVIDIA's CUDA technology.
well not particularly elimination of it, nvidia will still provide CUDA for other purposes. rather, CUDA emerged filling a gap that had nothing else existing, so now they are providing something as part of the specification to be implemented by all DX11 compatible hardware (remember, the caps method used before was eliminated by DX10 so to be considered DX11 it has to support all of the DX11 features)

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The Direct3D API imposes some constraints on the processing model in order to achieve optimal rendering performance. Direct3D 11 introduces the Compute Shader as a way to access this computational capability without so many constraints. It opens the door to operations on more general data-structures than just arrays, and to new classes of algorithms as well. Key features include: communication of data between threads, and a rich set of primitives for random access and streaming I/O operations. These features enable faster and simpler implementations of techniques already in use, such as imaging and post-processing effects, and also open up new techniques that become feasible on Direct3D 11–class hardware.
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post #9 of 16
7/10/08 at 1:02pm
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Originally Posted by Buck View Post
I think it'll come out before then...for Vista. (If I remember correctly, XP started with DX8)
it should... i think XP started with 7 something... because i remember upgrading to 8 for F.E.A.R.
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post #10 of 16
7/10/08 at 2:06pm
DirectX 8 was released November 9, 2000. DirectX 9 was released on December 19, 2002. FEAR I think was in '05 if I member correctly. I think it started at 8 but not positive.
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post #11 of 16
7/10/08 at 3:54pm
windows XP was released with DirectX 8.1 initially installed. SP2 pushed the upgrade to 9.0c
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post #12 of 16
7/10/08 at 3:58pm
lol

So my new 4870x2 card will be obsolete even before I install it lol
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post #13 of 16
7/10/08 at 4:39pm
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lol

So my new 4870x2 card will be obsolete even before I install it lol
sadly, that is how technology works as you know well by now
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post #14 of 16
7/10/08 at 6:24pm
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Originally Posted by Steve@NBF View Post
it should... i think XP started with 7 something... because i remember upgrading to 8 for F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. was DX9, with a DX8 compatibility mode.
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post #15 of 16
7/10/08 at 7:15pm
Stop the bus I want off.
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post #16 of 16
7/10/08 at 8:06pm
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Stop the bus I want off.
go get a console
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