DirectX 12 Will Allow More Technical Features, Will Add Richness To The Screen

Black Desert is an upcoming  massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Korean video game developer Pearl Abyss.

[iamnsuperman]

Shouldn't there be an if (or better yet a might) instead of the will in the title. The developer doesn't even sound sure. He said "If the API improves, and developer’s accessibility towards graphic pipeline increases, more technical features can be applied. After all, it will add more richness to the screen.”. It sounds like he hasn't even seen anything of it yet and doesn't know the true benefits of used DirectX 12

[4Sh0w]

Not really surely a seasoned dev can look a tech spec's and say IF this works like that, I WILL be able to do more of this.

I mean his comment about the API improving accessibility towards the graphic pipeline seems pretty straight forward, in fact it seems like he is taking the right approach which is not confirming DX12 on paper technical merits, he's simply saying *IF they do turn out to be true then he will be able to add "more richness to the screen".

[donthate]

A lot of times, the way the API is architecture makes a huge difference in your ability to do things.

That is why you have different programming languages. Some languages express things easier.

A seasoned developer can glance and tell.

It's like DriveClub had issues with the way they initially designed it, and therefore had to re-architect the internals. This was hinted at by Shu as one of the issues.

[user5669510]

never fails ps fanboys trolling other platform articles.

[CaptainObvious878]

Unlike ms fanboys that are completely mature and respectful about their opponents.

Oh wait.

[Eddie20101]

@iamsuperman

You are absolutely correct, yet you get a lot of disagrees from people who can't read or comprehend what the developer said.

I guess certain people will accept anything when they are desperate.

[SaveFerris]

What does 'more richness' look like on screen? Does my current screen have 'richness'? How can I tell if it does?

[donthate]

This is a Korean developer, where English isn't obviously as common over there, but isn't it obvious he means better graphics in some way?

[4Sh0w]

Well its sort of a given in "dev talk" that "more richness" means better detail in some areas like GRAPHICS with better textures, EFFECTS like volumetric smoke and dynamic lighting, ARTISTIC DETAILS like a varied color palette and character differentiation, ENVIRONMENTAL DETAIL like grass and vegetation that reacts to wind and player movement, rain, snow, etc. There are other attributes as well but yeah by more richness he means at least 1 or more of these things.

[DougLord]

Sony trolls do not understand anything other than 1080p and 60fps. Anything else like model polygon complexity, texture quality, physics, number of images on screen, depth of field, lighting and shadows. Or fun factor, compelling story, memorable characters, revolutionary game play features. None of that matters compared to 960p vs 1080p.

[DigitalRaptor]

@ DougLord

Except ALL of those things you listed are a given and have always been used at the discretion of the developer.

1080p/60fps is a standard that should be expected of this generation of hardware, and I think you are being disingenuous by summing up a fanbase who want what has been promised. It's not like a fanbase that claims not to care about the numbers, except when they see any game that runs at the next-gen standard on their console of choice.
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BTW: "number of images on screen"

How is that any different to number of PIXELS on screen i.e. resolution?

[Grap]

Don't feed the Trolls!

[HanzoHattori]

No one knows what effect DX12 will have on gaming software and no one will know until it's actually released. These articles about the benefits of clouds, dedicated servers, and DX12 are all based on what ifs and maybes. The only people who do know for certain what these things will do is Microsoft because I assume they are testing DX12 before it's released. Microsoft has never said anything definitive about DX12 and I don't expect that they ever will say anything substantial about DX12 or anything else that they are developing.

[radler]

B-b-but... the secret sauce!!

The power of the cloud ended up being a big fat lie, and now you want to take away the mystical hope of DX12 as well? But what will people cling to for hope then?!

[hello12]

How is the cloud a big fat lie when Microsoft has already announced a game in development that is using the cloud? Crackdown not exist to you or something?

We have never seen a game using the cloud for game physics. If they are successful they've freed up resources and the devs can do more things with the game. The future is coming and Microsoft will be ahead of the game.

Directx11 doesn't optimise cores efficiently.

DirectX 12 features improve CPU utilisation with the workload able to be spread across multiple cores - effectively halving the load of DirectX 11.

But the x box 1 does have cores and it is using directx11 so you are going to see an improvement with directx12. The performance gains can be answered at this time. But you will see an improvement.

Directx11 is an API from 2009. You really think a new API will change nothing and the x box 1 will not perform better?

[Breakman92]

OMG SERIOUSLY are you guys not tired of the fanboyism? Just play your prefered console already and stop bitching about other consoles for fucks sake.

[BG11579]

Well at E3 2013 they announced that all games would be 1080 60fps.
They said DRM was here to stay because it couldn't be removed from the system.
They said that Kinect was integrated to the system and impossible to be removed from it.
Phil recently said that frame-rate was more important than resolution.

Microsoft says a lot of things. Azure and the Cloud have to prove themselves.

[strangeaeon]

Nice job parrot, now take a time out and come back with an original thought.

[MorePowerOfGreen]

That's not true at all.

MSFT has said the core benefits many times...

(ClOUD)
-MSFT said they will *provision the -CPU- and storage equivalent of three Xbox One consoles in the cloud* The Japanese staff and media talk about the CPU allocation more than anybody so expect them to go big.(tech demo showing one of the things Azure can do, that was actually a game)

(DX12)
-Will allow for shared work with all CPU cores , the XB1 only uses one for most of the work. (tech demo shown to thousands of people and hundreds of devs at the event.

As if MSFT is going to reveal features and specs to the public just so internet fanboys can try to spin them apart. Things like I said above and "hardware based tiled resources" is all average gamers need to know.

[HanzoHattori]

The DX12 description is vague and ambiguous. As I have stated previously, no one will know what effect DX12 will have on gaming SOFTWARE until it is actually implemented.

[strangeaeon]

That is the most fair and rational comment ever posted about DX12 on this site, wish more gamers had your attitude.

[Ryan741]

We have Drive Club though.

[GodGinrai]

....And?

[Ryan741]

Its going to be the best driving game ever made and exclusively on PlayStation 4 this fall.

[GodGinrai]

LMAO!!

You have a good sense of humour. Might be taken the wrong way around here though.

[jatakk]

Missing "/s" in the end there, I hope?! : D

[itisallaboutps]

Games on consoles are optimized to the core. Microsoft has said it is coming to Xbox. But they have avoided saying anything about performance increase. Hardware is hardware, unless the system was detuned to crap it would have a graphics jump worth the trouble

[SlavisH2]

direct x box

[mochachino]

This article has almost nothing to do with xone....

The devs aren't refering are to xone at all when talking about DX12. He's referring to PC...he doesn't even seem to have any plans to release the game on xone. It's PC first, then possibly PS4. He doesn't even mention xone.

Why have an xone picture for the article when it clearly has nothing to do with xone? Talk about misleading. It will be hilarious when the delusional people expecting majorly improved graphics from DX12 on xone will see very little improvement.

[ainTgoTTime2bleed]

''DirectX 12 Will Allow More Technical Features, Will Add Richness To The Screen''
Okayyyy, define ''Richness''.. .

[bleedsoe9mm]

having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy:
having wealth or valuable resources

[n1kki6]

Wait...so you're telling me DX12 will be more capable than DX11. You don't say. Who would have known?

[purp13m0nk3y]

I don't think anyone is debating DX12 will improve upon DX11. But more the claims of outlandish performance gains that were initially proffered.

Didn't some MS clown claim DX12 would be like giving each Xbox1 a second GPU or some such nonsense? Initial claims of 2x performance gains! Seriously Wtf!

Of course the Xbox1 will benefit from DX12. But the gains will be no more impressive than any other API update.

It's just more typical MS PR BS. Just be honest from the beginning. Gamers aren't so gullible now days (well some of us aren't) and it just hurts your image when you never deliver on any of your BS claims.

Power of the cloud. SKU update. 10% GPU bump. Remember how they hyped the crap out of those for months. So far none of these things have delivered on MS initial outlandish claims.

[n1kki6]

Well obviously we are because we continue to argue about trivial things when it comes to consoles. Ignore the hyperbole, it's quite simple, can't be mad at the marketing an PR teams for trumping up huge statements. Ever seen a McDonalds ad, then compared the burger you actually get when you go?

[Geoff900]

10% boast has enabled games like Diablo 3, Destiny to do 1080p...

Cloud, is very debatable, however FM5's Drivatar is impressive to see, the servers that are used for TF, are good low pinged and very stable.

So yes I would say MS have delivered on those things.

[HanzoHattori]

@purp13m0nk3y
Yep.You're right. It was around the same time Microsoft announced that it will selling the Xbox One in Japan. And when Microsoft tried to take that Xbox One is equal to 30 Xbox 360's crap to Japan, they were ridiculed and laughed at.