Microsoft announces DX11

By Aharon Etengoff
15:22 Jul 24, 2008 | 1 Comment
Tags: Microsoft | DX11 | DirectX

Microsoft officially announced DirectX 11 during its Gamefest 2008 developer conference in Seattle, Washington.

The latest Microsoft multimedia API package will include improved multi-threading capabilities, hardware-based tesselation and new shader technology that re-positions GPUs as general-purpose parallel processors.

Microsoft CTO Chris Satchell explained that the company wanted “to break away from purely having a paradigm of pixels, vertices and shaders."

Microsoft has also graciously decided not to force users to purchase DX11-specific hardware. Satchell readily admitted that Microsoft had deliberately created a discontinuity between DX10 and DX9, but emphasized that "DX11 is totally compatible with DX10.”

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1 Comment

emccat

Sep 10, 2008 8:10 PM

i have one word for it DUMB!!!!! my 2 shiny 7800GTX's can't use DX10 or DX10.1 but now ill feel even sadder knowing that they can't run DX 11 either. (although i don't know if DX 9.0L is compatible with my 7800GTX's)

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