World of Warcraft now supports DX12 in Win7

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  1. KissSh0t

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    It's what I use, I upgraded from Vista to Windows 8.... I actually skipped Windows 7.

    xD
     
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    Well FML i loved my Win 7 Ultimate. The only reason i jumped on 10 was for DX12.

    If millions of WoW players are still on Win 7 Blizz has some power to make M$ do this.

    I thought it couldn't be done because the new API was built with the new OS in mind, if this is true then M$ BS is stronger than ever.
     
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    Win10 will still have full D3D12, Win7 will get _some_ games which will use _some_ parts of D3D12 runtime. Basically this requires a game developer not only to develop D3D12 renderer but to make a separate version of it for D3D12-on-Win7. I don't expect that many will bother as D3D12 don't really provide many benefits even on Win10 at the moment and will likely be even less interesting in a stripped down form on Win7.
     
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    I predict Microsoft will extend the life of Windows 7 simply because of popularity...
     
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    Actually w7 support ends in 2020.
     
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    i said "extend the life" ....The popularity is to big to end it's life even if it's 1 year from now.

    the fact that Windows 8 did not get this Wow update should tell you something.
     
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    Remains to be seen what Win8 will get.
     
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    It's sitting at <10% of windows installs, doubt it will be getting much of anything .
     
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    I shall comment on how much I hate Win10 and glad to see tears of Win10 users who upgraded to it just for DX12 had to deal with horrible performance and upgrades only to see much more superior Win7 supporting it now.

    I shall also comment how biased and numb are Win10 users who has forgot or perhaps never used glorious Win7. Win10 probably brainwashed them with that
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    they see daily.

    I shall also comment how biased my comment is, but it doesn't change the fact how far more Win7 superior to filthy bloatware Win10.
    Win7 is very good, so clean, so nice, so smooth. Win10 is bad, dirty, slow, smells like mixture or old and new bloatware that M$ pushes every now and then, like a noob developer pushes fixes to fail github project, while crying a river and wishes he be done with it.
    If Win10 users love their OS so much, why they hate on M$ store? Hypocrites, that who they are.
    I should find myself a mug saying "Win10 users tears". So yummy.



    Ok, I am done. Interesting news, I wonder if M$ will just finally break a Win7 with DX12 update and force users to switch to Win10.
     
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    With them bringing chromium edge to 7 and now this, it's almost certainly getting an extension. It's nice what they're doing but too late to matter if they're going to cut off 7 in less than a year. I guess they concluded it's not a good idea to strongarm the people who are still holding onto 7.
     
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    And in the past they claimed "we'd like to do that, but it's technically impossible." Vulkan picks up some steam and becomes serious competition, oh look there, now it's possible all of a sudden.
     
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    hahaha w10 incher users
    same type who did not mind fb and other social media getting rich off them and selling them like 2 dollar crack whores
     
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    Damage control much?
    So , can i run SOTTR with dx12 on win7?
    If not, any possibilities in the future?
     
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    No?
    No. Read the op.
    Who knows? My magic 8ball says "unclear"
     
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    Lol.
    On serious note, it should. I am still on windows 7 like alot others. And i am afraid of switching to win10 that horrible POS.
     
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    We don't know yet how this API port will be handled. It's possible that it will be handled solely by including required DLLs in a game's distribution and changing IHV drivers for this OS somewhat. In this case it's highly probable that Win8 will get the same what Win7 will since the drivers for these two are essentially the same.

    Only if Nixxes will add this ability.
     
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    Well since MS has just found out that a lot of people still want to continue with W7 instead of being force into using W10 how about adding full support for recent CPUs so we can install all the updates?...
     
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    That will rise once people realise it can be made to run exactly like 7 with most of the benefits that 10 has for 11.x games.
     
  20. Astyanax

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    not in any reality based benchmark i've ever seen.
     

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