Thread: Direct X 11.1

Funny thing is that I just installed Windows 8 yesterday out of sheer boredom (I got it for $15 lol). I don't have any problems with it other than the Windows 8 version of Internet Explorer 10 sometimes doesn't want to work. Other than that, it's good. I LOVE the travel app that's built-in on the Start UI. I love the different places in the world and it will be great with educating (I worked at a daycare and I'm trying to find another center to work at, though I doubt I will bring my laptop there to educate; maybe a Surface Pro 8 tablet later on). Transferring files and backing up to an external hard drive is a lot faster. Oh, and my drivers got updated to newer versions, including my processors from Intel (went from the 2006 WHQL on Win7 to 2009 on Win8).

I will tell you that I did do some benchmarks for games and while the benchmarks do lag a bit, I can tell that the NVIDIA drivers aren't optimized yet for the OS. They were the same way when Windows 7 launched, from my experience.

EDIT: Oh, and NVIDIA drivers have had DirectX 11.1 support for a few months, it's just that Windows Vista/7/8 has not updated their Runtime version yet. FYI

Originally Posted by Ingolf

Though, I agree it's stupid. Most people using Windows 8 are going to find a way to disable to tablet UI and use it like a normal OS.

No, they aren't.

Originally Posted by Ingolf

ok

thank god someone found a way i hate how window 8 looks lol when i rebuild a new pc i'll so do that lol.

DX 11.1 includes some XNA stuff mainly. I don't think DX 11.1 really matters much since we are going to be using D3D 9 on desktops for the foreseeable future.

They altered the scale of the Windows Experience Index with Windows 8. Now each score caps at 9.9.

your video card is gonna have to use DX11.1 to even use it. and the games you play will have to use it too.
the .1 really has nothing new mostly updated stuff.
i dont see no reason to leave win7 no one will just stop supporting it just because win8 is out, they still support win xp.

Originally Posted by Laraul

DX 11.1 includes some XNA stuff mainly. I don't think DX 11.1 really matters much since we are going to be using D3D 9 on desktops for the foreseeable future.

They altered the scale of the Windows Experience Index with Windows 8. Now each score caps at 9.9.

you get higher scores on windows 8 too. when i did a install on my system. im dang near capped on my system lol. down below is win7



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