Microsoft is yet to launch their next generation DirectX 12 API and the only applications to use it currently are demos of AAA titles which are currently under development. With the launch of Windows 10 nearing, AMD and NVIDIA are ramping up support for DirectX 12 API on their latest graphics cards which include Radeon HD 7000, Radeon R200 series on the red team and GeForce Fermi, GeForce Kepler and GeForce Maxwell generation GPU over at the green team.
At GameStack Live, Microsoft announced and released the new DirectX 12 Agility SDK, which delivers DX12 Ultimate features to a larger base. There will benefits for Xbox, too.
Pretty cool. Should help devs adopt more modern rendering techniques on both PC & Xbox rather than have to target old versions to cover the majority of their users.
DSOGaming writes: "NVIDIA has just released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 451.48 WHQL driver adds full support for the DirectX 12 Ultimate graphics API. Additionally, this driver supports Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling when used with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update."
DSOGaming writes: "Microsoft has released the highly anticipated May 2020 Update for Windows 10. This Update brings support for both WDDM 2.7 and DirectX 12 Ultimate. Moreover, it packs some Xbox Game Bar improvements."
Crash restart lockup repeat. Windows. Wonder what will happen to people who take health advice from its creator.
As a note: WDDM 2.7 requires you to have updated drivers (which currently no official WQHL driver w/ support is available for Nvidia yet. Only development branch 450.xx). Also you need a 7th gen or newer Intel CPU w/ igpu, or a 10 series or newer Nvidia GPU, or latest AMD offerings.
Last time I update, the ethernet driver wasnt available so no matter what (even factory reset) I can't go online. The only way to update is to go online lol. Well I always wanted an offline laptop, so I guess got what I wish for :/
"NVIDIA is also bringing a series of new anti-aliasing technologies that include multi-frame sampling anti-aliasing (Multi-frame sampled AA), polymerization G-Buffer anti-aliasing (Aggregate G-Buffer AA) Cumulative anti-aliasing (Accumulative AA). The latest AGAA 2A technique delivers quality of 32x MSAA while having the performance penalty of 4x MSAA which is quite a big deal. The new technology is also supported by the current generation of Maxwell cards."
Praise the master race.
Sweet I'm covered with my 7950 HD but I'm still going to build a new rig next year or the year after. Would like to go for 1440p or 4k at 60fps monster that will last a long time.
Yes am glad my two factory oc 7850s will have some life left been rather happy with the Sapphire brand of cards may stay with them in the future. Above I will wait maybe two years before I upgrade my cpu I want to see the gains intel make with dx12 .