Battlefield 4 gets DX11.1; DX11.1 Will Improve CPU Performance

DX11.1 is Windows 8 exclusive, DX11.2 is what is coming with Windows 8.1 and has the new texture streaming functions.

 

BF4 is a Gaming Evolved title so i wouldn't be surprised if they used DX11.1 hardware features as well.

 

The only hardware features NVidia doesn't support aren't related to 3D gaming.

 

As much as I hate DX11.1 not being fully supported on Windows 7, I do like that some games will use the newer, more efficient APIs.

Seeing even high-end PC exclusives sticking to DX9 for so long made me bitter

 

+1 It will be the same

 

Windows 8(.1) only? No thank you.

 

Doesn't DirectX 11 (11_0 feature level.) already offer multi-threaded rendering to help CPU performance?

I'd imagine that if that was used then whatever 11_1 brings won't be that big of a boost on more recent CPU models though it's a nice addition to have but it's not like it'll somehow make the game run a lot better on it's own.

EDIT: No idea if W8.1 and 11_2 has some further enhancements, haven't really been looking into what's new with WDDM 1.3 and DX11.2 but it's a free upgrade so it doesn't really cause any problems.
(But MS could have easily ported the full 11.1 functionality to Windows 7 too.)

 

MS being MS. They refuse to add SPDY to IE 11 for WIndows 7 as well, because Y U NO use our latest O/S?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R9yVV6g3q7g&t=221

This nature part looks awesome.


lol I wasn't that impressed by those early videos, after i saw this technical demo i changed my mind



About nvidia i think all that is included

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...directx-111-with-kepler-gpus2c-bute280a6.aspx

 

Who cares, all PC games these days are from consoles and are badly ported, unless it's a PC made game, FOR PC, I don't GIVE a F**K! It's all a gimmick!

 

i would have liked the crysis3 engine, rather than frostbyte with 11.1...