DirectX12 announced, but I just bought dx11

Ggoodenough · Mar 5, 2014

Microsoft just announced the release of directx 12 for the near future, and now I'm falling into buyers remorse because I just recently bought my first pc with all the bells and whistles. I7-4770k, gigabyte sniper z87 motherboard, and a geforce gtx 780 SC. My gtx is a DX11 based card. Will I be behind in a year now and possibly even unable to play games made for DX12?

iam2thecrowe · Mar 6, 2014

many games still dont require more than a dx9 card. and the ones that do require a dx11 card can be hacked to support a dx9 card. I havn't heard anything about dx 12 yet, or what new features it has, but i'd say it would be a while before games REQUIRE dx12 cards, or they would have a very limited audience.

danny2000 · Mar 6, 2014

iam2thecrowe :

Just an fyi for March 20th: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7835/directx-12-to-be-unveiled-at-gdc-2014

Ggoodenough · Mar 6, 2014

That's the exact article I read also. I'm curious about the architecture of dx12, but I guess we won't know until the press conference

danny2000 · Mar 6, 2014

I don't think that it will matter much until maybe two years down the road from now as the other poster noted.

Ggoodenough · Mar 6, 2014

Hmm.. That still kinda blows lol. What would I have to change to get dx12? Would my i7 4770k still work with a dx12 discrete graphics card?

Supernova1138 · Mar 6, 2014

You'd probably need a DirectX 12 graphics card, and probably Windows 9 or whatever OS that DX12 is put on exclusively to try to drive up sales. In any case it won't make much of a difference for a while, DX11 was introduced in 2009 with Windows 7 and it wasn't until 2011 we started to see a decent number of games that even supported DX11, much less required it. Even now, the only game I can think of that requires DirectX 11, and supports no other DirectX version is Crysis 3.

renz496 · Mar 6, 2014

as much as i'm interested to see what kind of new feature and improvement Dx12 will bring over DX11 it is also a fact that the adoption will be slow given past history with DirectX.

RobCrezz · Mar 6, 2014

Dont worry, it will be a long way off yet before we even have cards that support the new features and even longer before games utilize it.

The brand new 750 Ti based on the new arcitechture doesnt even support dx 11.2 so dont worry.

Ggoodenough · Mar 6, 2014

Supernova1138 :

So no new mobo and processor?

RobCrezz · Mar 6, 2014

Ggoodenough :

Not to support a new version of DirectX. Although when its finally being used and we have GPUs that support it, current CPUs will prob be out of date anyway :lol:

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