eventual DirectX 10 / 11 patch, possible increase in performance?

[Ilean]

Just a quick reminder:

DX11 features are really about making the game look better and most important, to better use GPU and scale up with GPU power.

Then there is stuff like ambient occlusion that is so poorly implemented and unoptimized that you can't really blame it on DX9.

So really, DX10 or DX11 won't bring any significant boost on current hardware. What they need to do is optimize the engine, once they've got that they can start thinking on using DX11 for eye-candy and future proofing.

[Dhalmel]

Just a quick reminder:

DX11 features are really about making the game look better and most important, to better use GPU and scale up with GPU power.

Then there is stuff like ambient occlusion that is so poorly implemented and unoptimized that you can't really blame it on DX9.

So really, DX10 or DX11 won't bring any significant boost on current hardware. What they need to do is optimize the engine, once they've got that they can start thinking on using DX11 for eye-candy and future proofing.

There doesn't have to be any real graphic improvements to use DX11. DX11 can use hardware accelerated advanced dept of field and ambient occlusion and not the slow power hungry software/cpu based implementation that is used now. There are more things to DX11 besides graphic features but also multi threading optimization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct3d#Direct3D_11.