2K's Martin Slater: "DirectX 10 Offers Your Gameplay Nothing"

2K Australia's Martin Slater gave his opinions on Microsoft's Direct X10 in an interview last weekend at Gameconnect. The link below takes you to the written extractions of the interview.One of the extractions includes:

"..DirectX 10, probably for the next three, four, five years is not important to you.."

[GIJeff]

I just dont see the point right now of changing everything from DX9. Of corse, I prefer OpenGL anyways....

[Shaka2K6]

Yeah windows vista flops again.

[Tarmgar]

Another reason why I'm not getting Vista any time soon. Xp Foreva!

[Xi]

i doubt that, in the next 2 years it'll have a lot of functionality.

[Andreiy]

Next year there's gonna be directX 10.1

[iceman2000]

nvida suport opgel 3.0
opengl 3.0 vil it dx10.1
tu brekfest

[Xi]

opengl is awful. Its bad for the exact same reason unix is. When something is open it means anyone can add to it, which means that a lot of things are not as well optimized, not as standardized, and not as unified which causes a lot of problems later on, and means there's a lack of support. There's a reason why DX took over opengl.

[Loopy]

xi,
your comment just showed us how much of an uneducated fanboy you are.

[GIJeff]

Allows you more freedom. Its much easier to program for OpenGL, things seem to run faster too. I dont know, its more of a preference i guess...

PS. OpenGL is way better than directX. :p

[iceman2000]

opengil rid

http://www.ozone3d.net/smf/...

[Xi]

that's a tech demo for nvidia, it's being done in dx.

[iceman2000]

http://www.youtube.com/watc... opengel vil it dx10 du prekfest ale ral time
crysis is pad § du cippe windows visda form daying
if you ar so blinde you kant sie dett
butt nvida suport opengl 3.0

[iceman2000]

opengl 3.0

http://www.theinquirer.net/...

OpenGL 2.x and 3.0 APIs arrive this year
Longs Peak and Mount Evans represent major API upgrade

By Theo Valich: Friday, 25 May 2007, 9:00 AM

MY HONORABLE COLLEAGUE Wily Ferret posted some hefty and honest remarks on the state of OpenGL yesterday. Regardless of thenumber of hate e-mails monsieur Wily received, the truth is that OpenGL got stuck in too much politics, and DirectX just switched to a higher gear.

We can remember the times gamedevs were telling us, "DirectX? Us using it? Not in your wildest dreams." "Microsoft's puppet?" And so on and so forth, only to see them changing the tune when DX9 came along and became more a usable API than OpenGL. And now, DX titles are predominant on the market, even with the old-school gamedev teams.

But what is going on with OpenGL right now is nothing short of exciting. After all the mumble of OpenGL 2.0 and its delays, this year will see no less than two new versions of this venerable API. First one that is coming out soon is Longs Peak (OpenGL 2.x), which is a major clean-up of the code after almost a decade and a half of nothing else but stacking numerous extensions together.

This API is supposed to arrive in summer timeframe, most probably July. Approximately three months after that, Mount Evans (OpenGL 3.0) will run specifically on hardware born after November 8th, 2006. You've guessed it correctly, we are talking about DirectX 10-class hardware, bringing all the features of unified 3D architecture to the world of OpenGL. Mount Evans is compatible with Longs Peak, but of course - you will require OpenGL 3.0 class hardware to run everything.

OpenGL 3.0 offers features such as instanced rendering, stream out of vertex data to a buffer, texture buffer objects, numerous new texture formats and so on. What is most important here is that Khronos Group is linking OpenGL and OpenGL ES, a mobile 3D graphics API. This is done via Collada and glFX, so what is supported in OpenGL 3.0 will see the light of the day in ES version as well.

As far as OpenGL 3.0 goes, there isn't any bad news here, since this will be a first that a new revision of an API is supported top to bottom, from standard to most expensive ones and down to the 50-60 Euro range. Only problem? This shake-up of the API just might be too late, given the timeframe of next-generation titles. Then again, PlayStation 3 and Wii definitely do not use DirectX as programming interface. µ

[mighty_douche]

unless you think improved visual experiences can add to gameplay.
when Dx9 first released it didnt offer any instant improvements in gameplay/graphics.

people seem to forget that software always trails hardware.

[basherdrog]

in short

a desperate effort to get the lime light by microsoft..

[iceman2000]

nvida demo run xp no visda
it run opgel 2.1
nott opgel 3.0
visda dosen suport xp olye visda
dont bi so blinde

[Xi]

dx10 runs on xp as well.