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.