DirectX 11 Announced.

Microsoft is calling DirectX 11 a "Big step forward for gaming, adding features onto existing DirectX 10" 

direct x 9 is what my 7600gt supports so unless i upgrade massivly..

"direct x 9 is what my 7600gt supports so unless i upgrade massivly..
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Yeah i got a DX 10 card with the 8800gts, and barley any games take advantage of DX10.  the new DX11 cards will bee about $500.  Its more marketing to amke you think you need to buy the new shit when more then 80% of new games wont even use it, id say wait a year or two then ill looking into buying a dx11 card.

"Yeah i got a DX 10 card with the 8800gts, and barley any games take advantage of DX10.  the new DX11 cards will bee about $500.  Its more marketing to amke you think you need to buy the new shit when more then 80% of new games wont even use it, id say wait a year or two then ill looking into buying a dx11 card.
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Man, I really need to build a PC.

Direct X11? DX10 just came out, and they already have DX11 announced? O_o. I'm so glad I didn't get into computer gaming.

I still don't care about DirectX. When they start showing off some good looking games and I'll be happy.

"direct x 9 is what my 7600gt supports so unless i upgrade massivly..
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I'm not going to wait for cards that can do DX11, I'm upgrading this year, once the GTX 280 gets its die shrunk.

Wow, 11 is coming out already? That's pretty fast, I guess GFW being free is sweet to, too bad Steam is exponentially better and has always been free.

I agree with you there, I am supprised DX11 has been introduced so fast when DX10 has not taken off as well as it could have. I think the issue is Vista has not been well recieved after Service Pack 1 unlike XP. I will probably go to Vista but as of now its still not really worth it considering there are very very few games that are actually DX10 only :(

"They also announced that Games for windows live will be free from now on for all users."

Wow direct x10 hardly had anytime to even grow and here comes 11. I'm still using 9.0c and I'm not getting Vista just to use directx11 for a long time.

i think i will hold out on buying a new dx10 card then

i cant afford a new pc being a student, but when i get money i am going to buy the best one out.

Nice to know that it supports dx10 hardware, it would really be a dick move on Microsoft's part to urge us to buy new hardware again. But seriously, do we really need new graphics API's every year? Right now there isn't anything in dx10 that can't be done in dx9. Not even id's new Tech 5 engine will have any compelling features for dx10 or 11.

They barely even got into DirectX10.

DX10 is barely even supported that much and DX10.1 is just out, and I don't see many games using that too, except for Assasins Creed, but then you'll need an ATI card to use that.

It's all marketing to get in cash, fucking microsoft.

Open GL is much better IMO 

Even though DX10 is hardly used yet, I'm excited to see the capabilities of DX11 in action.

cool.

"cool."

Didn't DX 10 JUST COME OUT?

And the big thing was Crysis. Now there's another HUGE step forward!!!

I love PR and Marketing. These kind of claims only have us computer nerds spending our cash on pointless upgrades.

Hey guys, remember when DirectX 10.1 was the next big thing? Nevermind, DirectX 11 just came out 5 minutes later. I wonder what games will be supporting that.

Just in time to buy my new PC.

Wait wait, I am getting a new computer soon. but really this is crazy! I don't even know what kinda card to get beuase i don't even know if it will work in the future! Well looks like we get good looks to fast for my wallet.

DX10 didn't live up to the hype, I doubt this one will do much too.

Seems way too soon for DX11.  Microsoft needs to slow down and wait for DX10 to catch on first.

I didn't even notice a dif when playing Crysis on 10 then going back to 9..

"I didn't even notice a dif when playing Crysis on 10 then going back to 9..
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