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Agreed, and it's still here; you can only get DX12 with Win10. That hasn't kicked up as many waves yet because the tech has been slow to adopt.
by animal531 10y ago
Agreed, and it's still here; you can only get DX12 with Win10.
That hasn't kicked up as many waves yet because the tech has been slow to adopt.
- douche 10y agoAlso because DX11 is still perfectly serviceable for most applications - and DX12 is considerably more complicated. There are still new games being developed on top of DX9 today.
- Silhouette 10y agoIn any case, surely no game developer is going to make DX12 a hard requirement to run their PC games any time soon. Even today, Steam's hardware and software survey puts DX12-capable hardware at around 70% of their users but nearly half of those aren't running on Win10. That's after a year of Microsoft literally giving it away and it being the default OS you get preinstalled on most new PCs in stores. The pattern of adoption hasn't been entirely surprising either: a fairly rapid shift over the first six months or so after 10 came out, but then a much slower shift since then. It's going to be a long time before anyone running a modern GPU on Windows 7 can't run the latest PC games with decent results.