When people think about the competition in the video game market, their focus usually turns to the home consoles such as the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Wii. However, people often forget about (or dismiss) the PC platform entirely. The additional cost and hardware requirements make PC gaming less attractive for some, and it is hard to compete with the “plug and play” ease of a home console. However, the PC remains a solid platform for gaming,
Windows 7 official support ended recently and inXile Entertainment are now pushing Bard's Tale IV players to install Windows 10 apparently. Considering it was originally playable in Windows 7, players are not liking the minimum system requirements change.
Building on the success of porting WoW's DX12 version to Windows 7, Microsoft has published help for other DX12 devs, which includes a runtime that supports all the features of Windows 10 October Update... including DirectX Raytracing.
That's right, DirectX 12 has come to Windows 7
Seems strange to port it to Windows 7 at the same time they started to notify customers it has reached its end of life lol
Woah, that's great actually! I can finally throw my Win 10 in the trash and go back to an OS that doesn't f*** up my games performance at each update.
PC gaming always had a bright future regardless of the propaganda that many misinformed people spread
PC's really are giving consoles a good run for their money this year. While consoles are giving us new chapters of the same game that are pretty much the same exact game you played before but with different scenery, you have games like Guild Wars 2 coming in August that have completely revamped and upgraded their entire game to make it far better than the original. But this is a good thing. It feels like the big 3 of the game consoles aren't really competing for our attention anymore. They cookie cut out the games and throw them to us expecting us to jump because we have no other choice. They weren't expecting the PC to be a threat. Now it is. Hopefully that will get them off their butts and make them use their imagination once more. Make them take a risk. Not all risks pay off, but in the gaming world when one does it it makes history. hopefully this will be the slap in the face they need to start making good, original content again.
If the major players botch or delay for too long the next generation of consumer consoles, it could really pay off for pc's.
The trump card of the consumer consoles, ease of use and entry price, has been devoured by the mobile/tablet market. They will be trading on brand loyalty and gimmicks.