Friday update and discussions 2011-03-18

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by MD_Titus

Classy.

Did it cross your mind that the choice might be dx11, tesselation and naff performance or, and here's the ground breaking bit you ignore, no tesselation effects, no dx10 tech compensation and good performance. Basically not doing the effects you get in dx11 at all, and having a reduced, in comparison, level of detail until a later patch activates it. Much the samevway the water detail was increased in il2's lifespan.

As I said, using dx11 capable card market share as the indicator is deceptive. Few people will build a new rig and use an old gpu, and dx11 capable cards have been about for the past 18 months+. That's basically all new gpu's, and a better indicator of how useful or applicable dx11 is would be assessing how many games use dx11 and how many people actually play in dx11 mode. HD capable televisions were available for years before we saw much in the way of HD broadcasts.

A recent article in PC Gamer talked about the usefulness of dx11, using the unigine heaven benchmarker. The conclusion was yes, it makes it look great, but it would be unplayable, and having flat textures rather than tesselated cobblestones is preferable from a gaming and playability viewpoint.

I'd like to add that if you're going to repeatedly call people stupid, it's a good idea to use "their" and "there" correctly.

You know its not really worth replying anymore, at this point I am just fed up with the trolls, who are too lazy to read so its not worth arguing with someone who is in their little bubble.

Chivas and Hayward - not once have I seen you 2 contribute in any way to a discussion other then with snide remarks. I love how you hate on tree when he didnt even comment, its obvious you are posting just to get a reaction and its childish.

-Didnt want to post it in the other thread, but for the record Olegs recent post about devs making low quality, high return multiplatform games that result in stagnation of the gaming industry is exactly what I said about a month ago. If people remember I posted a thread about GDC2011 graphics and made those exact points, about software (ported to pc with badly implemented changes) and the lack of motivation or need for new hardware.

-Hayward, learn to read kk?