Black Ops 2 PC will take advantage of DirectX 11

Black Ops 2 will utilise the power of DX 11 on PC. As reported on One of Swords, Treyarch’s director of online highlighted the graphical upgrades during the recent Black Ops 2 reveal presentation. Despite the technical upgrades, getting the upcoming FPS to run at a 60 frames per second on all platforms is still high on Treyarch’s priority list.

[Draperc]

wait wait wait.....a call of duty title will have DX11 support on PC?! REALLY?!

[Convas]

I had to cover over my mouth to in the library to keep from crying out with laughter XD

[malol]

and ppl still waiting for mod tools on the first blackops

treyach ... stop lying

[Awesome_Gamer]

Malol said it best, stop lying to us Activision/Treyach

[blinkingfast]

the game looks like a whole new title

[GraveLord]

wow. 9 disagrees?
Shows how many trolls there are here on N4G.

[Solid_Snake37]

I can hear you bleating from here man keep it down

[GamingPerson]

COD will support graphics cards that are inside of pc cases.

Good to see I guess. Cod = dx11, Max Payne 3 = dx11, Ghost Recon = dx11.. Yeah It's safe to say these devs have xbox 720 devs kits & are working with dx11. But that is just my Rumor.

[M1chl]

I agree on your rumour sir : )

[DeadlyFire]

haha. I do agree though. Its very certain that these folks know the API for next platform and kits are likely in their hands. There is no other reason for CoD to ever have DirectX 11 while utilizing the same game engine.

[xYLeinen]

Guys.. Don't get too excited yet.. I feel we have been through this once before.

[chukamachine]

dx11 support really does not mean much.

Support being the word, you can do 95% of dx11 on dx10 - dx9.

Depends what they are going to push with dx11.

Alien vs predator has dx11 support and the enemies looked better, but not a great upgrade. tbh.

[caboose32]

Well it's not only about visuals. It can also help greatly optimize a game too.

[Paradicia]

I hope it means tessellation. That would be a big step forward for COD in general.

[kevnb]

you are speaking as a consumer, dx11 is a much better api than dx9 is for newer hardware and managing things like draw calls.

[Hufandpuf]

This is becoming really interesting. Based on the trailer the graphics looked like mud, but I believe the plot and setting alone could give the franchise a second chance. I won't be buying it day 1 but I'll try it out,willingly this time.

[Raider69]

I believe when i see it!But im sure if this is true the game engine is still going to look outdated anyway.

[Eyesoftheraven]

So in other words, we can expect it to run worse than Black Ops 1 did on high end hardware. Thanks for the heads up.

[MiamiACR21]

I'll believe it when I see it. On a Youtube video when it releases.

[kevnb]

treyarch needs to learn it, my guess it will be a mess

[closnyc]

people dont relaly seem to understand yet, that dx11 is not a huger graphical leap...the generational leap is in dx10 which unfortunately we dropped. A perfect example is crysis 1. the difference between 9 and 10 were just abysmal. tessellation is not a generational leap or even that big of a deal. and the reason why a lot of people say games like killzone and uncharted look so great, its cause they run on open gl, a much more open service than direct x. if we didnt have direct x (blame MS), we would have a much bigger gap. make a game using dx10 and then add tessellation, then maybe you can talk, but as of now, games with dx11 dont look that much better as if they were solely dx10 like crysis 1.

[Draperc]

I had a longer response to this, but hitting disagree erased everything so I'll just say this : DX11 is a huge leap over DX10 and you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

[BraveToaster]

I'm expecting it to run like total crap.
Black Ops ran like total crap on my computer and I have a GTX 580. It was the best GPU you could get back when Blops came out and I would constantly get FPS drops.

[TurboGamer]

I nominate Black Ops 2 for the buggiest game of 2012.