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    Windows 10+ DX12 and GTX 9xxM series

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by Chris_Wayne, Jul 28, 2015.

  1. Chris_Wayne

    Chris_Wayne Notebook Consultant

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    First of all, is DX12 support coming for the current GTX 9xxM series of cards? if yes, is it coming just by the time W10 launches or is going to take longer?, lastly, are we (owners of GTX 970/980m) going to see any improvements in current games at all? or are the improvements only being implemented on new games?

    I'm very curious about W10 but I don't know if is just the hype or the new OS is legitimately good.
     
    Chris_Wayne, Jul 28, 2015
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    sockey007 Notebook Consultant

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    Well, in any case it's probably better than Windows 8/8.1

    lol
     
    sockey007, Jul 28, 2015
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  3. Mr. Fox

    Mr. Fox BGA Filth-Hating Elitist®

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    DX12 will be supported by Windows 10 and support goes back to Kepler, and I think some Fermi possibly. (NVIDIA has published the list of GPUs that will support DX12, but I don't have it memorized.)

    Edit #1: the above is correct... http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/20/directx-12/
    This will only be relevant on games that are built to use the DX12 API. It will be a while before DX12 becomes ubiquitous and it's not very likely that any current games will be recoded to use DX12. Everything else (games and benchmarks) will continue to use the DX API version that they were built to use, so DX12 won't likely be of any value. If you want to read up on Windows 10 and know all of the good and bad, check out this thread. Windows 10 | Notebook Review Forums.

    Which wouldn't be a difficult feat by any means, LOL. :vbwink:

    The most disturbing part of Windoze OS X is the diminished user control. They took away a number of things in Windows 8.X and now there seems to be even less, although the stock UI seems to be a marginal improvement.

    Edit #2: Please feel free to continue discussion and ask questions here: Windows 10 | Notebook Review Forums.
     
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    Mr. Fox, Jul 28, 2015
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