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| | (Post a comment) » Microsoft: No Biggie On DirectX10.1A few days ago we reported that an upcoming update to DirectX in version 10.1 would not let the new features work on current PC graphics hardware. Now Next Generation is reporting that a Microsoft rep is downplaying the issue:
Microsoft's Sam Glassenberg told Next-Gen in a phone interview, "DX10.1 fully supports DX10 hardware. No hardware support is being removed....It's strictly a superset. It's basically an update to DX10 that extends the hardware functionality slightly."
He said that the update is similar to what Microsoft did with DX9. "We did make updates to [DX9] that extended the supported feature set.
"All the hardware is still supported, all the games still run, all the features are still there, we've just simply extended the feature set and the lifetime of the API," he said. |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
| 11 User Comment(s) • 2 root comment(s) |
 northreign (84)  Aug 16, 2007 - 11:03 am
| | Maybe the silly people still won't believe it and continue to go with the silly rants. » Login to reply to this Anonymous (-) Aug 16, 2007 - 11:52 am
| | or maybe the gullible will swallow anything M$ says. » Login to reply to this
Labotomizer (1077) Aug 16, 2007 - 12:47 pm
| You're right, we have no reason to believe them. I mean, what the guy is saying about DX9 is total BS right? DirectX 9c made it so any card that didn't support 9c would no longer work with DirectX at all. You had to go buy new hardware immediately because that was part of the plan...
At any rate, put down the tin foil hat and step away from the crack pipe. They changed from letters to .# format is all, big deal...» Login to reply to this
subtlesnake (10) Aug 18, 2007 - 07:25 am
| No, not at all. Games only starting dropping DirectX 9.0b support recently. Remember ATI's Xxxx series didn't support DirectX 9.0c.
And the move from SM2 to SM3 was pretty big. DirectX 10.1 looks more like the move from DirectX 9.0a to DirectX 9.0b, which had no effect on owners of existing hardware.» Login to reply to this |
trex1993 (1) Aug 17, 2007 - 10:25 am
| | Ummm...exaggerate much? My girlfriend's PC has some archaic Radeon 9200 series video card (DX 8.1 compatible), yet can still play Direct X games just fine with 9.0c installed. Yes, the DX 9 features are AWOL, but just because you installed DirectX 9c by NO means results in "any card that didn't support 9c would no longer work with DirectX at all". » Login to reply to this |
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