PC Games Hardware had a chat with the developers of Civilization 5 and talkes about Direct X 11 techie stuff. This is probably the first game where a DX11 card is highly recommended.
Civilization V continues to be one of the most popular grand-strategy games you can play on Steam, for about three years.
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Philip Boyes:
When I was a kid, I played a lot of Civilization 2. I played a lot of strategy games in general, but having a deep love of both history and sci-fi, the epic sweep of Civ 2 from prehistory to the stars held a particular appeal. I loved taking my little people from their huts and ziggurats to the world of science and advanced space-flight.
Graphically i don't care much about how much better it will look. The one i'm impressed the most will be the Direct Compute architecture. This is one of the most important aspect in rendering that's not possible before DX11.
No longer will we see pauses or late render of textures nor polygons (ahem GTA4..ahem ahem..Unreal Engine 3). When the more and more developers creates standard DX11 games for PCs then we will see the refreshed (i won't use revival because is never was dead and never will be) of PC gaming.