DirectX 11 footage

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Isn't directx an Nvidia only thing?

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Isn't directx an Nvidia only thing?

DirectX is supported by both NVIDIA and AMD. It is a Microsoft graphical engine.

[Xoriam]

Hard to tell from pixelated video but sadly looks like we wont be getting any kind of texture resolution bump.

Not really that big of a deal since we're getting tesselation.

[HakuroDK]

All of the technobabble pertaining to graphics hardware/software goes over my head. All I know is that the DX11 client is sure gonna be pretty.

[AckersFury]

Hard to tell from pixelated video but sadly looks like we wont be getting any kind of texture resolution bump.

Console limitations

[Squa11_Leonhart]

Any word if the DX11 is going to address the unusual memory leak on AMDs. Just about anyone with any version of a AMD GFX card inevitably experiences a huge lag spikes, and usually once its over textures and stuff are missing. Even whole body parts are gone. This was way more evident when hunts were big news to people, lots of people experienced issues then. But not too much anymore, sense hunts aren't popular anymore. It still happens just not as often.

DX11 moves resource management from the driver to the API, so it should be magically fixed.

[Bishop81]

Personally I'm a tad worried about the DX11 client's reliance on nVidia's Gameworks and how it will affect AMD cards.

Overall visually they are some nice improvements. Nothing groundbreaking though - as I was expecting when I heard there would be new lighting.[1] But that said, the game currently already looks pretty good.

A little disappointed too there aren't better AA options. FXAA ... you will get used to it but SMAA T2x (like they use in Infamous: Second Son) would be nice.

[1] Was kind of expecting more accurate physically based lighting.

DirectX is supported by both NVIDIA and AMD. It is a Microsoft graphical engine.

Actually DirectX is a graphics Application Program Interface (API).

Basically it's a standardized method of talking to different GPUs, so games can be written once and run on any DX compliant GPU - in theory.

Nothing is "free" of course, there are downsides to abstractions such as this, mainly that it saps performance. This is why consoles despite having weaker hardware can look as good they do, as they use a much lower level API designed specifically just for their hardware.

[Shougun]

Aww to no textures, I swear once they said they were working on decompressing and examining some textures and while it was an arduous process they were at it and then a month later they were like 'nope'.

Other changes are nice though, the little things can add up (zoomed out quick shots may be hard but large screen slow passing eyes can mean a lot). Improvement is an improvement, so yay .

It will be fun to revisit some locations after this just to see the changes (beaches, marble Ul'Dah maybe, Limsa stone walls?).

[Gramul]

Hard to tell from pixelated video but sadly looks like we wont be getting any kind of texture resolution bump.

Yes. But it is an improvement I am happy to see regardless.

[Gralna]

No game-changing resolutions like they were up front about it, but it'll be something nice to look forward to when the time comes.

Actually Yoshi himself stated in a live letter that DX11 wouldn't be that much of a noticeable difference from DX9, that main difference would be with the water.