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A Look At Windows 8's DX11.1 And What It Gives Us Gamers

Mankz
Level 10
One largely overlooked aspect of Windows 8 is the arrival of a new DirectX version! Let’s take a quick look at it.

http://rog.asus.com/196522013/news/a-look-at-windows-8s-dx11-1-and-what-it-gives-us-gamers/
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AvatarOfRevenge
Level 8
Forced Metro the hideous, no steam, and forced MS Store, no thanks, I'll stick with 7 64 bit Ultimate and pray Win 9 is better

PS Consoles have been holding most games back to DX9 and the new ones will be lucky if they even get DX 11....
(lots of PC games that use DX 10 or 11 usually are based off of a DX9 console port so they never fully utilize the full DX 11 library)
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AvatarOfRevenge wrote:
Forced Metro the hideous, no steam, and forced MS Store, no thanks, I'll stick with 7 64 bit Ultimate and pray Win 9 is better

PS Consoles have been holding most games back to DX9 and the new ones will be lucky if they even get DX 11....
(lots of PC games that use DX 10 or 11 usually are based off of a DX9 console port so they never fully utilize the full DX 11 library)


What do you mean no Steam? I disabled a lot of Metro on Windows 8, it is indeed... misguided. Other than that Windows is windows, it's just something to do all kinds of stuff like web, gaming, folding, etc.

maximiza
Level 11
It has a .1 on it...it has to be good.

AvatarOfRevenge
Level 8
U can get 11.1 for windows 7 on the ms website, I installed it last weekend with no issues
Case - Cooler Master HAF X 942
Motherboard - Crosshair V Formula-Z
CPU - AMD FX-8350 ( OC'd @ 4.5GHz)
CPU Cooler - Cooler Master V8
GPU - Sapphire Vapor-X HD 7970 GHz Edition 6GB
RAM - G.Skill Ripjaws Z DDR3 (2x4GB) @ 2400MHz (using XMP #1)
PSU - Cooler Master SilentPower Gold 800
HDD - WD 150GB Raptor & WD 1TB Caviar Green
OS - Win. 7 Ultimate 64 bit

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- AMD Radeon HD 7870

Adhy_Dharma_FN
Level 7
Windows 7 Ultimate is better to play games
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Adhy_Dharma_FN
Level 7
hehehe...:D:D peace
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