MIcrosoft Announces DirectX 11 Coming Soon

MIcrosoft Announces DirectX 11 Coming Soon

Author JoeDigital

DirectX 11 is coming soon, and it boasts the ability to make your video processor behave as a secondary system processor.  Using GPU technology in this way isn’t new, but this is a new feature for DirectX, which is already an industry leader in video display technology.  For the average PC user, this may not have impact at all, but for gaming fans, it opens doors of possibility that are certain to have far-reaching implications for future game designs.

The following snippet comes from Wikipedia:

Microsoft unveiled DirectX 11 at the Gamefest 08 event in Seattle, with the major scheduled features including GPGPU support, tesselation support, and improved multi-threading support to assist video game developers in developing games that better utilize multi-core processors. DirectX 11 will run on Windows Vista and its successor Windows 7. Unlike DirectX 10 it will not require new graphics card hardware specifically supporting the new API version, and will support both DirectX 10 and DirectX 10.1 hardware.

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