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Originally Posted by JAMF
SoW will not have tessellation. No mention of physics being run on a GPU. No mention of DX11 specific shaders being used. Not even a mention of anything DX11 specific being used. The only enigmatic words regarding DX11 were "supported". DX8 functions are supported by DX11.
Show me quotes that DX11 is needed or desired, besides oracle-like utterings?
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Well to start you may be correct I havent seen anywhere where the devs specifically stated: SOW is DX11 and uses DX11 features and uses tessalation. This may be due to the fact that the devs are Russian and we dont get as much info as we would normally get.
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He has made it clear the game engine has alot of growth ahead of it, alot of potential and future enhancement which has to mean DX11. DX9/10 is not going anywhere due to structural code reasons (the way it handles data, in effect its maxed out). DX11 has many many features DX9 doesnt especially shaders, tessalation and multi layer mapping as well as multi thread operation handling.
DX8 features are supported by Dx11, but so are dx2 = whats your point? It doesnt mean it will or can run on dx8...
If there is no tessalation then honestly the game will end up either: slow and jittery as hell, basically badly coded. Or runs fine but the graphics are 2-3 generations behind modern game graphics and coding.
Tessalation is the only way they will be able to pull off large scale air battles, and realistic sight distances without making the game a slide show, or having textures from 2005. In addition I never said GPU based physics, but if the damage and flying models are accurate/realistic they will need advanced physics (which is a necessity not an option). How they will handle delegation I do not know but DX11 cards are the only ones that will be able to handle the data stream from the CPU cals (assuming its cpu based) which could detract from AI etc.
The fact that they are doing a Nvidia build I think gurantees DX11. If not the game will not have any legs in the long term.
Sorry I desire DX11 as do many other gamers, just because you dont want to update your computer does not mean computer technology should cease to advance in the mean time (dx9 is what 5 years old now?).