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The new DirectX 11 version announced

July 25, 2008, Author: Cezar Renta

microsoft-directxMicrosoft announced the new version of DirectX within the GameFest festival. While some of you will worry about this new version and its compatibility with your video card, Microsoft assures us that the 11 version will recognize DirectX 10 and 10.1 graphic cards. DirectX 11 will work only within Windows Vista but the new features caught our eye.

- multi-threaded resource handling - the new processing will take advantage of our multi core machines

- new shader technology - with better CPU and GPU management

- Tessellation/Displacement - models will now be more smooth when viewed up-close

Microsoft stated that we should expect DirectX 11 in mid-late 2009 and i’m guessing some features will be tested within upcoming versions of DirectX 10.

5 Responses to “The new DirectX 11 version announced”

  1. AvatarJames
    @ Jul 28th, 2008, 10:41 pm
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    I hate it when they push the software ahead of hardware, they make the developers build more resource intensive games, the hardware manufacturer’s to build next-gen video cards and we get constant upgrades…i’m sick of it :(
  2. AvatarKarn90
    @ Jul 28th, 2008, 10:42 pm
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    lol, it’s the natural way of developing, i’m just wondering, the next-gen DX 11 games…who will they look? *drool*
  3. AvatarDarmo
    @ Jul 28th, 2008, 10:44 pm
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    still 1 year till DirectX 11…I’m wondering what they gonna do sound wise
  4. Avatarehab ahmmed
    @ Aug 5th, 2008, 10:15 pm
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    please help me people i dont know download directx 11 can you help me

    please send to me the download
  5. AvatarCezar Renta
    @ Aug 6th, 2008, 4:57 pm
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    Directx 11 is in development and it can’t be downloaded
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