Microsoft to unveil DirectX 11 at XNA Gamefest

[Trotter]

Seattle (WA) - Microsoft will take the wraps off DirectX 11 at its annual XNA Gamefest, which is scheduled to take place on July 22 and 23 in Seattle, TG Daily has learned.

This year's Gamefest will be built around DirectX 11, to relight the fire of the multimedia and gaming API. The software is scheduled to be made available for Windows Vista and Windows 7, but Microsoft wants to avoid the same mistakes it made with DirectX 10.

According to our sources in the game development world, DirectX 10 failed to capture hearts and minds of developers, since Windows Vista and the development environment were just too unstable to use them as a development foundation, we were told. Vista came with a "passing the cost to the consumer" approach in term of hardware performance as the operating system was burdened with DRM in too many stages.

Stay tuned for more details to come.

Following the XNA Gamefest, Microsoft, Nvidia and AMD (ATI) are expected to start talking about DirectX 11 at conferences such as Siggraph 2008 (August 11-15) and Nvision 08 (August 25-27).

DirectX 11 is set to debut in late 2009, several months ahead of the release of Windows 7.

TG Daily - Microsoft to unveil DirectX 11 at XNA Gamefest

 

[Apokalipse]

so it's still over a year away.

what kind of improvements should we expect?

 

[Jorsoft]

Hopefully real ones, not that pseudo improvement crap like dx10 was.

 

[Oreo]

And it doesn't support Raytracing...

Allready destined to be the failure DX10 was.

 

[Wildside]

DX10 is cool. I like it. Looks like im gonna wait for the R800 then. Nice knowing ya HD 4870 x2.

 

[Poizen22]

And it doesn't support Raytracing...

Allready destined to be the failure DX10 was.

ray tracing is about 6/7 years away from now.

 

[Wildside]

idk, i wouldnt say DX10 is a totally failure. It's just so new that everyone has been used to Windows XP for so long that having to go to Vista is like................crazy or something, ya know?

i say give DX10 some time, who knows, DX11 might not be that different........or is it gonna be?

 

[Apokalipse]

It's still over a year away from actually being released. And knowing Microsoft, do you expect them not to have any delays, etc?

Also, even if DirectX 11 were to be released today, it'd still be some time before DirectX 11 games actually hit stores.

 

[Oreo]

ray tracing is about 6/7 years away from now.

No no no... RayTracing IS here.

A normal pc that can do it without prerendering..isn't.

At 800x600 on quake 3 with a ridiculous ultra pc that less then 0.1percent of gamers have there pushing 10 or 15fps now.