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AMD to Promote DirectX 10.1 Among Game Developers
Posted by Regeneration on July 1st, 2008, 03:01 PM

AMD's newfound zest for life has made it look for what would really, really hurt the competition. The answer? the game developers. I'm not sure if you've heard, but Blizzard has grown pretty big these days. World of WarCraft has been an indescribable success. It's been known for a while that Blizzard has been looking at implementing DirectX 10.1 with one of its future games. The fact is that it's more than one, or two.

If AMD has played its cards right, Blizzard is not only looking to implement DX10.1 support, and in best-AMD-case scenario, DX10.1-exclusive effects, with future games, but also patch current games with DX10.1 for additional performance and effects. If everything comes together for AMD, this means that StarCraft 2, Diablo 3, future World of WarCraft add-ons, and more games from Blizzard will sport DX10.1, something which NVIDIA is unable to handle hardware-wise.

You can read the entire article at Nordic Hardware.

Last edited by Regeneration; July 1st, 2008 at 05:03 PM.

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Posted by AfterLife on July 1st, 2008, 07:03 PM
This was bound to happen sooner or later.....DX 10.1 supported games, I am glad blizzard is the first one to implement 10.1 support in Diablo III.
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Posted by SpectatorX on July 2nd, 2008, 04:20 PM
I want to play mario bros in dx10.1 ;-) It could be really interesting :-)


But seriously i'm glad they gonna do somethin like that.
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Posted by squall_leonhart on July 3rd, 2008, 01:08 PM
Starcraft2, and Diablo3 WILL NOT be sporting Dx10.1, they are both evolutions of the WC3 engine, and that is Dx8 at the most basic

Last edited by squall_leonhart; July 3rd, 2008 at 07:20 PM.
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Posted by blindartist on July 3rd, 2008, 01:30 PM
Where did you hear that squall?

They are both said to be built on new engines though im sure they are probably heavily modified old ones, regadless they will both be supporting havok, starcraft will definetly be supportind dx10 and Diablo will probably be as well. Blizzard has not officially released anything to my knowladde so there is a chance that 10.1 will be supported.
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Posted by squall_leonhart on July 3rd, 2008, 03:20 PM
Starcraft2 is not Dx10.

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Will StarCraft II take advantage of DirectX 10? What other graphical goodies are included?

The game will be compatible with DirectX 10, and we're still considering whether there will be exclusive DirectX 10 graphic effects, but the graphics engine will also be very scalable to ensure that a wide range of different systems will be capable of running StarCraft II. The new engine is also capable of rendering very large units, as well as large numbers of units on screen together. Havok physics have been integrated into the engine for added realism as well.
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Posted by blindartist on July 3rd, 2008, 03:24 PM
read the official faq, infact they are considering including dx10 exlusive effects
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Posted by Hueristic on July 3rd, 2008, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by squall_leonhart View Post
Starcraft2, and Diablo3 WILL NOT be sporting Dx10.1, they are both modified WC3 engines, and that is Dx8 at the most basic
LMAO! You have no clue what your talking about and obviously have no idea how to program.
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Posted by Unixlord on July 3rd, 2008, 06:39 PM
Yes there's even rumors of DX10 in WoW, NOW THAT WOULD SUCK!
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Posted by squall_leonhart on July 3rd, 2008, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Hueristic View Post
LMAO! You have no clue what your talking about and obviously have no idea how to program.
i have more clue then you do ya flipping noob, now gtfo
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