Comments on: 2K Australia’s Martin Slater: “DirectX 10 Offers Your Gameplay Nothing”

By: spede

spede — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:42:38 +0000

Go through what? I've been running Vista Ultimate x64 over six months now, and during that time only game I've had any issues with is ArmA. Rest run smoothly without any hickups, slowdows or crashes. 32bit support for games and apps is seamless, and "legacy titles" such as Deus Ex and Baldur's Gate run just fine. Even the allmighty Crysis yields ~30-45fps on medium-high settings with 8800GTS@1920x

What comes to DX10; most "next gen" titles to date, even Crysis, have been build ground up with DX9, albeit Crysis does have it's own DX10 rendering path as where Bioshock, some minor DX10 gimmickry is just glued upon the rest of the game. Naturally that doesn't affect the graphical outlook, let alone gameplay all that much.

And indeed, OpenGL is just a graphics api where DX offers devs a complete solution to implement sound, graphics and i/o under one unified api. If this doesn't affect gameplay, what does. Rest assured, DX10 benefits are yet to be displayed in the full array, but that day will come sooner than five years form now...

By: Hano

Hano — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:34:42 +0000

DX10 is a failure. The difference in quality between DX9 and DX10 is minimal while the performance hit is huge. To hell with Vista, I have it and I don’t think I’ll ever install it. DX10 is just a tool M$ is using to kind of force gamers to upgrade to Vista. I wish more developers would use OpenGL instead and we wouldn’t have to go through this again.

By: Shoitaan

Shoitaan — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:52:41 +0000

If graphics are done right, it adds a lot to the games atmosphere. Although not directly relevant to gameplay, it sure makes a hell of a difference to the gameplay experienced by the player :)