DirectX 10.1 seemed to be a big thing for the future, but now we haven't seen any games that support it and the games that said they would have begun to pull their support or to minimize it. Has DX10.1 Fizzled or has it just not began in full force yet?

As of right now the only cards that support it are the new ATI cards. 

the transition to dx10 is still being made by the majority of PC owners
I have a card that will support it but the majority doesn't

But what do you think of the recent announcements of games pulling their support of the feature?

well dx11 has been anounced so i dont really know anymore

Do you think that Nvidia is leaving too DX10 quickly or will the market just skip it at this rate.

"DirectX 10.1 seemed to be a big thing for the future, but now we haven't seen any games that support it and the games that said they would have begun to pull their support or to minimize it. Has DX10.1 Fizzled or has it just not began in full force yet?
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It died when Microsoft announced DX10/10.1 to be Vista only, while people have managed to port it to XP, it lost all momentum.  Hopefully DX11 will bring the innovation throughout the PC scene.

"It died when Microsoft announced DX10/10.1 to be Vista only, while people have managed to port it to XP, it lost all momentum.  Hopefully DX11 will bring the innovation throughout the PC scene."

Well Assasins Creed did use DX10.1 but apparently Nvidia forced it too be pulled seeing how there cards dont support it and ATI's did and those cards were having massive performance boosts.

Nvidia still refuse to support it while ATI are trying to push it, that is the reason why 10.1 hasnt been adopted very well, and with DX11 on the way it looks like it simply wont happen now.

DX10.1 was kinda of like a HotFix....and if i read the DX11 report right those cards should be able to utilize a lot of DX11 but not all. Which by the time DX11 is released i hope to be upgrading graphics cards again.

I have no idea what is going on with DX 10 and DX 10.1. I guess that they are failures because DX 11 is already on its way. I thought that it normally took a long time for those sort of things to happen, maybe I'm just not remembering things.

DIRECT X 11 WILL BE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE WITH ALL CURRENT HARDWARE!!!! THERE WILL BE SPECIFIC DX11 HARDWARE BECAUSE MICROSOFT IS RETARDED AND WANTS TO SPLIT THEIR BASE AGAIN!!!! ...

sigh ... by the way ... this is an edit!

... ahem ... sorry ... Dx10.1 was a joke if you ask me and really what they're doing is just scrapping the idea and rolling out dx11 instead.

Predarus, Do you have any links to support that I have not heard that, maybe I just missed it.

"DirectX 11

Kevin stressed that today's announcement was a "technology" announcement. Furthermore, "DirectX 11 will work on Windows Vista, as well as the next version of Windows, which will support DirectX 10, 10.1, and of course new DirectX 11 hardware."

Even though there will be backwards-compatibility with DX10 hardware, the compatibility isn't 100%. According to Kevin, "you can expect that there will be DX11 features that need DX11 hardware," though Microsoft isn't ready to announce what they are at this time.

"Some of the improvements," continued Kevin, "for example, the ability to take much better advantage of multi-core capable PC's [is] something that we're going to extend all the way down to DX10 hardware. There are improvements across the board for gamers that have DX10 and DX10 hardware as well as some new things that we'll do that will require DX11 hardware."

"If you look at DX11, which is a direct superset of what DX10 and 10.1 offer, you're starting to see all of the investment developers have made in DX10 and 10.1 and consumers have made in that hardware, that experience is only going to get better with DX11."

It's too early to hear about any specific games or developers that are getting DirectX 11-ready, but it looks like a good future for Games for Windows LIVE and DirectX 11."

"As of right now the only cards that support it are the new ATI cards. "

"the transition to dx10 is still being made by the majority of PC owners
I have a card that will support it but the majority doesn't
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Damn DX10 and 10.1 was a complete waste imo, even thoug I have vista and own a dx10 card I still don't think DX10 is that good.

Plus, Assassins Creed is the only game that uses DX10.1 ad nvidia doesn't wanna support it.

As long as our DX10 cards can run DX11 stable and good I am fine with it

"Damn DX10 and 10.1 was a complete waste imo, even thoug I have vista and own a dx10 card I still don't think DX10 is that good.

Plus, Assassins Creed is the only game that uses DX10.1 ad nvidia doesn't wanna support it.

As long as our DX10 cards can run DX11 stable and good I am fine with it
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