Heavensward benchmark next month; no DX11?

[Wildsprite]

I'm hoping the game will go onto DX12 with the next expansion or when DX12 is ready. Lots and lots of goods things about DX12. It's microsoft's answer to the sudden burst of consumers and enterprise embracing open source API's.

that might be hard since we don't even know where microsoft is standing on what versions of windows will get DX12, if they add DX12 support to windows 7 all the way to 10 sure it might be worth it for them to look into. but if they only support windows 8 to 10 that will make things more difficult since a lot of people will refuse to upgrade from windows 7 and quite a lot of people want nothing at all to do with windows 8/8.1. remember what microsoft did with windows XP not getting DX10 even though vista was a mess till the release of windows 7.

having DX12 support for windows 7 would be a smart move for microsoft but it remains an unlikely one since they are proving they want people to upgrade to windows 10 with their free offer to upgrade for the first year for win 7/8.1 users.

this ofcourse does not mean the FFXIV team will upgrade to make use of DX12. but it should be actually an easier leap than DX9 to DX11 since the biggest improvements in DX12 are CPU/GPU usage tweaks.

[Raeletta]

that might be hard since we don't even know where microsoft is standing on what versions of windows will get DX12, if they add DX12 support to windows 7 all the way to 10 sure it might be worth it for them to look into. but if they only support windows 8 to 10 that will make things more difficult since a lot of people will refuse to upgrade from windows 7 and quite a lot of people want nothing at all to do with windows 8/8.1

having DX12 support for windows 7 would be a smart move for microsoft but it remains an unlikely one since they are proving they want people to upgrade to windows 10 with their free offer to upgrade for the first year.

this ofcourse does not mean the FFXIV team will upgrade to make use of DX12. but it should be actually an easier leap than DX9 to DX11 since the biggest improvements in DX12 are CPU/GPU usage tweaks.

Microsoft have stated that Users of 7/8 (Even pirated) will get a 1 year window to upgrade to Win10 for free. So they're unlikely to bother porting it down. They very much want to drop support for the older OSes, considering how stubborn people are to move on from 7. (I'm one of them).

[Wildsprite]

Microsoft have stated that Users of 7/8 (Even pirated) will get a 1 year window to upgrade to Win10 for free. So they're unlikely to bother porting it down. They very much want to drop support for the older OSes, considering how stubborn people are to move on from 7. (I'm one of them).

yes and whether the FFXIV team decides to make use of DX12 or not really depends on how big of a leap of users upgrade to 10. I'll say this as one of those using the technical preview I can say if they keep going like they have been things are looking like the upgrade from 7 will be well worth it. but we shall see.

[Raeletta]

yes and whether the FFXIV team decides to make use of DX12 or not really depends on how big of a leap of users upgrade to 10.

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[Wildsprite]

... Either I utterly blanked., or you edited it when I refreshed to post and the quote-chang carried over x-x.

I edited it, I tend to do this in these forums due to the stupid text limitations.