DirectX 11 to get announced this month

Microsoft will start talking about DirectX 11 in less than two weeks. Sources have confirmed that Microsoft game technology conference, previously known as Meltdown and now renamed to Gamefest 2008, will be the place where Microsoft plans to officially announce DirectX 11.

This conference takes place on the 22nd and 23rd of June in Seattle, Washington and it will set you back $550 if you register online.

The big feature of DirectX 11 is Tessellation/Displacement while it's also been heard that Multithreaded Rendering and Compute Shaders are part of it. DirectX 11 also brings Shader model 5.0 but not many details are known about it.

It looks like DirectX 11 will stick to rasterization as there isn't any mentioning of Ray tracing support.

Nvidia will also talk about DirectX 11 at its Nvision event / conference in late August 2008.

[Bolts]

Thats really big news considering the fact Nvidia isn't even supporting shader 4.1 yet. But considering how much DX 10 sucks and require Vista, I doubt DX 11 will excite unless the performance is up to par.

Oh, with tessellation and displacement DX11 is basically featuring a much hyped feature of the PS3, 4D LOL!

[thereapersson]

What do you want to bet there will be no XP support?

[Bolts]

There's no way DX 11 is coming for XP. That will be a fiasco for Vista, which desperately need a shot in the arm to be viable gaming OS after the DX 10 bomb. Nope, if MS is smart, and they're usually are, DX 11 is coming to Vista to keep it afloat till Windows 7.

If this new DX pans out it could do to Vista what DX7 did to ME. In other words, make it something gamers actually want to have.

[Charmers]

Erm "DX pans out it could do to Vista what DX7 did to ME. In other words, make it something gamers actually want to have." please tell me that was sarcasm. I have been at this 20 years and I clearly remember Windows ME, it wouldn't have mattered if they had released Dx20 on Windows ME people would still avoid it like the plague.

As for Dx11, it just goes to show what a failure Dx10 was then really, if they are talking about Dx11 so soon. It is either that or MS want PC gamers to road test the thing before they cram it into their next console.

[GIJeff]

was the only windows i ever had that never gave me a BSOD and ran flawlessly. Apparently, nobody shared my experience...i guess it was my awesome combo of hardware: Athlon 1GHZ, 512SDRAM, GeForceMX440, SiS motherboard.

[Fishy Fingers]

Whats the odds this is only capable using Windows 7.

[nanometric]

Major LOL

:D

[Varsarus]

Microsoft have realised they failed with DirectX 10, aswell as Vista, prepare to be crushed even more when OpenGL 3.0 comes! AHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Pain]

since Sony's PS3 runs Open GL and KILLING Dx 10.

[n00bzRtehgey]

is that why 360 games look and run better than ps3 games? lol, emo f@g.

[Pain]

"is that why 360 games look and run better than ps3 games?"
- No its since the Xbox 2 is Nothing more then a Hi-rez XBOX 1 thats No different to program and porting its inferior held back game on the "takes time to learn greatness PS3". sure.

" emo f@g "
- Oh Noes a Yanky teenager called me a 'Emo f@g'... wow must have strained that brain cell cumin up with that....

[DaddyDC650]

I'd rather have them hold off on DX11 for a few more years. Crysis tells me that DX10 is just fine and should hold us over.

[SaiyanFury]

Considering the major price cuts that nVIDIA and ATi are doing right now to higher end video cards, should DX11 even be considered at this point? Why not develop DX10 to it's maximum before announcing the next evolution. I have a 9800GTX and I don't run Vista. I was thinking maybe Windows 7 might offer what I would want in an upgrade. If it's DX11, I'm not interested at this point.

[Cyb3r]

I wish they would just stick with DX10 for a few more years

[Madbrain]

..with a new graphics card optimized for DX11... and maybe
with DD3 RAM... wait! you have also to change the motherboard! LOL!
Buy a console and get rid of the ridiculous "pay-again-upgrade"

[azmanmanz]

WTF!! Need to change the graphic card again??

[pwnsause]

oh wow, that was fast, what a flop Dx9 has been around for longer than this time.

[Bladestar]

Great.. just in time for the next xbox... I think the xbox brand is position for great things... Microsoft can get input from developers and implement features at the directX level... they can even enhance it for the console... unlike the PS3 relies and support features of OpenGL; directX is made by the same company that makes the xbox... meaning that developers will have more support, better documentation, consistent evolution of the software and hardware, if hardware provides some capabilities like "Tessellation/Displacemen t, Multithreaded Rendering and Compute Shaders, Shader model 5.0" DirectX would be modified to support it. I mean look at how the xbox 360 is doing in terms of graphics compared to the PS3.. where many multiplatform games (only way to compare capabilities) perform and look better on the xbox 360.. regardless of being more than 1 year older than the PS3 hardware... and the xbox 360 is not even DirectX 10.... imagine if it was... now imagine the next xbox with directX 11.x support...

[n00bzRtehgey]

I hope it unifies more advanced forms of relief mapping.

and yeah, u droids are dumb. u don't know the first thing about GPU technology. this has nothing to do with the next xbox. god damn, u droids are dumb.

[f789790]

You know as well as I do DX10 was just a couple pretty shadows and lighting.