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PC News - DirectX 11 Details Emerge
Written by Joseph Robinson   
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
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Microsoft has today revealed details about the next instalment of their DirectX gaming graphics API system, DirectX 11.

DX11 will not be compatible with Windows XP, even though some retailers still sell the older operating system. No release date has been given, but Microsoft revealed did the following details.
  • Full support (including all DX11 hardware features) on Windows Vista as well as future versions of Windows
  • Compatibility with DirectX 10 and 10.1 hardware, as well as support for new DirectX 11 hardware
  • New compute shader technology that lays the groundwork for the GPU to be used for more than just 3D graphics, so that developers can take advantage of the graphics card as a parallel processor
  • Multi-threaded resource handling that will allow games to better take advantage of multi-core machines
  • Support for tessellation, which blurs the line between super high quality pre-rendered scenes and scenes rendered in real-time, allowing game developers to refine models to be smoother and more attractive when seen up close.
More details are expected in the near future.


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