[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[MonsieurVerde]

"CryEngine 2 was among the first engines to use the Direct3D 10 (DirectX 10) framework of Windows Vista, but can also run using DirectX 9, both on Vista and Windows XP.[22]"

Unreal Tournament 3 is a DX10 game. It can also be installed and run on Windows XP, and there is a PS3 version as well.

Regarding the first sentence it seems that it would automatically run in DX9 if played on XP. At least, that is what the wording alludes to and the Unreal Engine 3 was designed around DX9 so XP users could run it.

And DX11 is not better optimised yet, beteleguzah, Civ5 is a good example as are most games with DX11 features which hog system resources.

Besides, as has been pointed out before...if SE is indeed running XP then they only have one option.

[Ilean]

And DX11 is not better optimised yet, beteleguzah, Civ5 is a good example as are most games with DX11 features which hog system resources.

DX11 is pretty much DX10 with added stuff, so it can be hardly not optimized enough.

However, DX11 features are indeed taxing, since they are mostly advanced techniques for extra realism and visual details. They are there to make the games look prettier and enabling them will cost extra cycles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPQ5V...feature=relmfu

Again, DX11 for the most part should be considered future proofing, as most of the people don't have the hardware for it right now. But again, I do believe than they should start working on it once (and only once) the game stabilizes. That way in a year or two from now they can release an improved DX11 engine and people with the hardware can take advantage of it.