They're trying to force people to upgrade to get certain features but its not going to work lol.
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DirectX 11.2 revealed
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They're trying to force people to upgrade to get certain features but its not going to work lol.
Midnight Phoenix
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Why not just use OpenGL and be happy.
Caayn
Member
Never thought of it like that. But it seems to be that way, yes.
Snapshot King
Member
None of my capture or recording gear works for windows 8. Maybe once support for Win8 stops being total garbage I'll consider it, but not before.
Midnight Phoenix
Member
Very useful, if you has only 5gb of RAM for games. But not so much, when artifacts pops out.
MrCunningham
Member
The Mars demo shows that they can take over 3GB's worth of assets stored in video memory and reduce the footprint down to 16GB's of video RAM using a programmable hardware page table solution.
I'm not an expert, but I think there are a few similarities.
dragonelite
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I think the tiled approach will work better for the 32mb of Esram.
You've got to be making shit up now.
I understand not liking the OS, but it's literally Windows 7 reskinned with some speed improvements. You're essentially saying Windows 7 is shit, and we all know it's not.
dragonelite
Member
At the intern company all internship guys all bought the $30 upgrade hell even the owner we got a day off to fuck around in win 8. Install and boot on all laptops went well. I find it hard to believe that most laptop crashed only time i got win 8 to crash on me was when i abused opencl and forgot to bound check and corrupt memory. And then it was most of the time just an driver fail and win 8 recovered from it.
so much this
Yes, it's Microsoft's job to make sure every piece of hardware works, not the hardware manufacturer supplying users with compatible drivers or anything.
Edit: I think I misread your post horribly.
What do company/office computers have to do with DirectX, which is primarily used for gaming?
Brerlappin
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Yes im making up stories about all the W8 laptops ive had to repair in the hopes of impressing all the laydeez of gaf and maybe even snagging myself a tag. Nothing gets the ladies chairs moist like tales of PC repair.
Unknown Soldier
Member
History has shown that trying to gate DirectX upgrades behind OS upgrades doesn't work. Developers won't make games which support a DirectX level the majority of gamers aren't on, and gamers won't upgrade just for a DirectX version number. MS has limited power to force upgrades by dangling games in front of PC gamers because their first party is such a joke, I mean come on guys, Halo 2 Vista amirite?
k_trout
Member
no i feel the same
what? halo 2 only on vista
or did i dream that?
halo 3 on steam only on win 8
Jzero
Member
He doesn't even know what it's for.
It's not like 11.1 and lower get obsolete though. And no, DX10 Vista is not really comparable since it was a major release.
dragonelite
Member
It just getting over the initial steps maybe google some shortcuts.
I hate win8 has the shutdown menu hiding what feels like 2~3 menu layer deep.
I now just use alt + f4
infinityBCRT
Member
Yup. Vista's effort was pathetic. Now if they start releasing recent/new games like Halo 4, Dead Rising 3, Forza 5, etc on PC then maybe that entices more than a few gamers to make the switch.
They are the Vista holdouts of this generation, the OS is very tablet focused with little incentive for desktop users to upgrade.
MidgarBlowedUp
Member
That is exactly what it looks like to me as well.
Was is just the Start menu? I never used that thing...
Good on you. I used it all the time plus now I don't have to see that hideous abomination called the Metro screen or any of the metro apps.
It's now Windows 7 with the Windows 8 optimization.
JayVoDaKing
Banned
Not a Fan! of Windows 8, so it sounds MS need to have a support system for the Win 7 lovers out there.
With a little Stardock Modern Mix in there as well.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Aww yiss, superior DirectX on a vastly superior Windows OS. It's a win-win situation people.
Yeah, I used their trial for the 30 days until I realized with a proper start menu, I never opened a metro application. However if you do regularly, their ModernMix is also fantastic.
Windows 8 deserved the hate when it was first released. The updated version is good though.
Sentenza
Member
What Microsoft is failing to understand -ONCE AGAIN- is that on an open platform "inclusivity" makes you more popular than exclusivity.
Theonik
Member
Companies don't give a rat's ass about DirectX exclusivity.
I hate that they lock shit like this behind another windows upgrade. Fewer devs are gonna support it now.... Why not just give it to everyone and let it garner support. Let everyone switch to windows 8 at their own pace to where they trust it enough to switch over. Vista+Dx10 again. Although I'm sure windows 8 can't be as bad as vista.
Theonik
Member
I hope more devs drop DirectX for OpenGL. DX is like cancer these days.
It's had a worse adoption rate than Vista last I checked.
living up to your moniker. ;-)
Sentenza
Member
I'm not sure why people keep arguing about how much they like or dislike Windows 8, as that's almost irrelevant to the topic.
It could even be the best thing since someone invented Christmas' presents, but the issue here is that forcing people to use Windows 8 to use these new DX is going to discourage a lot of developers for embracing them.
It could even be the best thing since someone invented Christmas' presents, but the issue here is that forcing people to use Windows 8 to use these new DX is going to discourage a lot of developers for embracing them.
Exactly...it's just a nicer way of displaying some shortcut icons. Once you know where those icons are, you can zip around the thing - exactly the same as with 7. In fact I'm much faster at actually using 8 than 7 now.
The amount of hate to what is just a reskinned way of viewing some icons is absolutely baffling and is the epitome of bandwagon internet hate. The desktop environment is exactly the same just faster (and with little improvements here and there like native iso support).