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Feb 1st 2018 Windows 10 Finally Surpasses Windows 7 in Global Market Share - StatCounter (62).Feb 9th 2018 Microsoft Office 2019 Will Run on Windows 10, and Only Windows 10 (85).Nov 21st 2018 Codemasters Releases DirectX 12 Beta for F1 2018 (15).
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DirectX 11.2 is at the heart of the console, and Microsoft could recommend developers to take advantage of tiled resources, to optimally use the console's limited hardware resources. With Windows 7 user-base being cut out from DirectX 11.2, game developers may think twice before spending time to implement D3D tiled resources, but there's also Xbox One to consider. In essence, mega-textures heralds a sort of virtual memory system to GPUs, and shifts the focus from increasingly larger video memory to faster memory. The complete texture needn't be loaded to the memory. Portions of these giant monolithic textures would be accessed by an application, as they become relevant to the scene being rendered. The "D3D tiled resources" feature is analogous to OpenGL MegaTexture, implemented on id Software's "Rage." The feature offers a better alternative to the current model of streaming textures as a 3D scene is being rendered by letting developers use larger textures that are fewer in number.
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Since Windows 8.1 will be offered as a free upgrade to current Windows 8 users, it's effectively the Windows 7 user-base, that's being asked to take a hike.ĭirectX 11.2 introduces a few new Direct3D features that could matter to games. With Windows 8.1, Microsoft is introducing DirectX 11.2, it requires WDDM 1.3, which the operating system introduces. The Direct3D component of the API didn't bring anything substantial to the scene. DirectX 11.1 was exclusive to Windows 8 and above, as it required WDDM 1.2 (Windows display driver model). DirectX 11.0 had the unique distinction of spanning across Windows Vista and Windows 7. Windows XP capped out at DirectX 9.0c, forcing gamers to upgrade to Windows Vista, to experience cutting-edge games of the time, such as "Crysis," with new visual effects that DirectX 10 brought to the scene. Microsoft has often used the tactic of limiting DirectX versions to certain versions of Windows, often citing driver-model changes, to force PC enthusiasts to either upgrade, or lag behind in PC technology, and in the past it worked. With this, Microsoft established that you will need Windows 8.1 or later, to access future versions of DirectX.
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Microsoft revealed that the latest version of its multimedia API will require Windows 8.1 on the PC, and comes built into its next-generation Xbox One console. Our recent editorial on adoption of Windows 8.1 by PC enthusiasts concluded saying ".and Microsoft isn't stopping with its innovations that will get increasingly out of reach for Windows 7 users." It looks like the first of such innovations is DirectX 11.2.