Battlefield 3 will not support Windows XP or DirectX9

Good, now if they would only stop releasing 32 bit OSes.

 

btw, offtopic

MS is gonna support winxp until 2020

 

good its time we moved on from this

 

Well, just last month I finally upgraded to W7 from XP. I am glad I finally did as now I wouldn't ever go back now that I have got used to the new look.

 

Accord to this website 2014 is the end date.

 

Excellent news.

- PR-0927

 

Good step. Too many people were still using that archaic OS.

And those who play games like Battlefield all have DX10/11 cards anyway. With cards like GTX 460 available I don't see any reason to complain even if they don't have one.

 

this

 

well this was convincing enough, despite MS real date.

http://translate.googleusercontent....gle.si&usg=ALkJrhinXXjOdu5pwzifSmrvicymUE3kgA

beware translator in action lol

anyway it doesn't matter,.. what matters is we need moaar dx11 games

 

Well DX11 is backwards compatible with DX10 and DX11 itself has been available for vista users for quite some time now.

 

Some could be possible, but it would comes at a heavy performance hit that no developer would consider to use that.

People complained too when PC games started to be made exclusively for Windows 9x instead of MS-DOS :wanker:

 

Best Comment ive read in awhile now ! :stewpid:

 

Humans are such whiners. :bang:

 

Indeed people must move on. DX11 capable OS computers still outnumber DX9 ones by a lot, or at least gaming computers.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

 

I think it's a GREAT move.
1. No XP-related compatibility issues.
2. No need to support XP audio.
3. Saving costs on shaders as DX10 and DX11 have pretty good compatibility and there's DX11->DX10 fallback.
4. No need to prepare separate code path for DX9
5. True DX10/DX11 instead of DX9 + extra effects
6. 64bit executables? I like it
7. General optimization for Windows kernel 6.0 / 6.1

 

You've just answered your own question there. If the majority of gamers are happy with DX9, why spend more money and time on DX11 features which are only available to the minority ?

Yes cause this site users represent the majority of gamers ? Games need to cater for the majority, whats the point in making a game that only 10% of gamers can play ? Its coporate greed and lazy coders that hinder the progress of gaming, remember when quad core cpus came out ? Everyone was like buy quad core all new games will use it, but even now how many games support it ?

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If this was the case, SC2 would be DX11 only and require an i5 and 5850 as minimum. Its understandable that games should not work on such old hardware, but when so many gamers are using XP, it would be silly for a new game not to support it while every other recent game does.

Think about it this way, why should a 2011 car run on unleaded ?


Honestly though, no DX9 support huh ? Are they planning on leaving out consoles as well ? I call thier bluff.

 

At least it will force me to stop procrastinating about upgrading my system

 

PinguX

consoles support a limited dx10 api.

Plus its Bf3, its for the hardcores, not a majority

 

SC2 is unfair example, as they have started developing that game when DX9 was the hottest thing there was.
But as people are forced to upgrade their hardware, it's also reasonable to require people to upgrade their software to match their hardware. The problem however is that MS still continues to sell their OS for a high price, even tho there are "free" Operating systems out there (those however sucks for gaming in general due to lack of support for those OS platforms by most games). E.G. legit Home Premium license (not OEM) still cost about 190 euros here, that's the price of a GTX260 here.

At some point someone gotta draw the line somewhere, and i guess they are doing it now.