You Will Get DirectX 11.2 Only With Windows 8.1 403
SmartAboutThings writes "Microsoft has just announced the next version of DirectX, 11.2, on its website. But the real 'problem' is that it is going to be exclusive to Windows 8.1 and next generation consoles — Xbox One and Play Station 4. This is not news, as DirectX 11.1 was exclusive to Windows 7 & 8. But is this going to help Microsoft convince people to ugprade or will make them angry?"
Re: Sheeple follow their games (Score:2, Informative)
Not if you are into video or image editing it isn't.
If I want to do professional video or image editing, I use what the professionals use, which is Mac OS X. That goes for most major studios and television networks.
Re:Playstation 4? (Score:5, Informative)
Idiot summary. Its OpenGL 4.3/OpenGL 4.4
Re:Angry (Score:5, Informative)
Re:DirectX on the Playstation? (Score:5, Informative)
Ok I did some digging and found this:
At the Game Developer's Conference (GDC 2013), Sony said, "PS4 Shader Language is very similar to HLSL, allows features BEYOND Direct X 11 and OpenGL 4.0"
Then some moron interpreted that as meaning Sony would use directx and extend its features but all it meant is Sony saying their shader language would be better than direct 11 and opengl 4.0.
Re:So it's going to be downvoted. (Score:5, Informative)
No, the difference from Vista + SP2 + bunch of hotfixes to 7 is hard to spot. ...
Try the original RTM Vista. Say hello to horribly slow explorer file copy, indexer and background defrag kicking in at the most inappropriate times, paranoid default UAC settings,
Re:So it's going to be downvoted. (Score:3, Informative)
The Metro interface was basically a way to train people to use the same interface as WP8 so they could sell more phones. It's sort-of working, with WP8 now at 3% of the smartphone market, but they've achieved that by Nokia losing money on each phone.
Re:Sheeple follow their games (Score:5, Informative)
Windows 8 comes with app store functionality bundled.
Applications available through this store must use only the Windows Runtime API (section 3.1 [microsoft.com]). This API lacks DirectInput (source [microsoft.com]), which means Windows Store games on desktop computers can't use inexpensive or specialized game controllers. They're limited to a keyboard (for Player 1 only), a mouse (for Player 1 only), and an Xbox 360 Controller (which must be licensed by Microsoft). Games must be fully playable with a touch screen alone (section 3.5 [microsoft.com]), which rules out several genres that rely on giving the player physical buttons to perform actions, and it can't have more than five seconds of loading even when run on the cheapest Atom-powered computer with a spinning disk hard drive (section 3.8 [microsoft.com]). Nor may it allow users to create scripts and share them with one another (section 3.9 [microsoft.com]), ruling out user-created game mods [tvtropes.org] that aren't just mesh/texture swaps and the entire Programming Game genre [tvtropes.org]. Nor do games with retro-style low-definition pixel-art graphics like Mega Man 9 appear to be supported, as their screenshots are smaller than 1366x768 (section 6.8 [microsoft.com]).
Re:So it's going to be downvoted. (Score:5, Informative)
Funny thing, actually, on Win 8 booting faster: it's largely because they quietly turned "Shut Down" into "Hibernate". When you select "Shut Down" in Win 8, you're really hibernating it. The only way to properly shut it down is via the command line. I learned this the hard way as a PC repair tech; I couldn't mount a Windows 8 volume using ntfs-3g, even though I'd "properly" shut it down Win 8. I did some digging and learned the truth, and shut it down via the command line, and was able to mount the drive using ntfs-3g.
Re: Mehh (Score:5, Informative)
There are cross platform solutions such as OpenGL and OpenAL. If games developers focused on them, then I don't care about the state of DirectX. The fact we see games being released on Steam that can do cross platform, shows there are alternatives to MS API lock-in.
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