DirectX 12 GDC 2014 presentation: Low-Level Access, DX11 GPUs, Holiday 2015
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CaptainTiptop
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So this is where the secret sauce will be revealed! Also The Witcher 3 and the next Red Dead will be revealed to be Xbone exclusive, because only the secret sauce can power them!
Right, guys?....Right?..
Right, guys?....Right?..
MisterX in six hours: "It was pushed back due to NDA. Wait for E3, keep digging."
ekim is trolling
9/10
I don't even know what he was teasing and I already mentioned that. It was stupid to post that in the first place because now I doubt he was talking about this event.
My guess for Direct X 12 is that it'll have full Mantle Integration and that the Cloud can render Ray Tracing as I read that the Brigade API that was announced just last week can render real time ray tracing through cloud processing and considering Ray Tracing was something Phil Spencer mentioned, maybe DX12 is that secret sauce everyone has been talking about for XB1 and DX12 can perform these tasks.
http://n4g.com/news/1474278/brigade...phics-api-aiming-to-replace-directx-or-opengl
But knowing Microsoft and their laziness, it'll probably just be Mantle integration.
http://n4g.com/news/1474278/brigade...phics-api-aiming-to-replace-directx-or-opengl
But knowing Microsoft and their laziness, it'll probably just be Mantle integration.
Has this person been right in the past?
Did he just randomly send you a PM to say "MINDS WILL BE BLOWN" or did this come up during a conversation?
If it's random, why would he share that with you?
Turin Turambar
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I very much doubt that. It surely will be what we could call "Mantle like" features, like reduced overhead and more low-level access to the hardware.
Nostremitus
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I thought the PS4 GPU was already Mantle compliant.
Xboxes unite and become a hivemind to collectively render whatever needs to be rendered. They transform. They become the cloud. Therefore they become... Xbox One.
Don't kill me.
It's highly unlikely to me that Dx12 will actually improve performance on Xb1, as the coding is already pretty low level (hopefully). If it's like mantle and redistributes job to make CPU more efficient it would be great if it would be available for current gen specs.
But what I am actually hoping for together with this is some kind of new XNA studio experience for indies to easily make Xbox games again. That would be godsend.
Don't kill me.
It's highly unlikely to me that Dx12 will actually improve performance on Xb1, as the coding is already pretty low level (hopefully). If it's like mantle and redistributes job to make CPU more efficient it would be great if it would be available for current gen specs.
But what I am actually hoping for together with this is some kind of new XNA studio experience for indies to easily make Xbox games again. That would be godsend.
Get back to the person and ask.
Terbinator
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Secret Sauce:
Every XB1 has MXM's DNA flowing through it powering it into DX12 when called upon.
That doesn't necessarily mean anything. It could just be DX12 apis based on work done for xbox one.
No stream wont help also...so did it start...?
Well, Qualcomm and Intel are showing up to this, so I imagine it's a rather scalable API.
Turn10 is also there and I imagine they're not making PC games now.
3 hours
Ahhh thought it was 10 EST...my bad.
timezones.
fatgamecat
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You guys make fun of misterx, but his minions trolling other video game forums and blogs is a real problem. Thankfully they seem to be kept out of GAF.
I agree with most people here that DirectX 12 will try to counter mantle on PC and add Windows phone/tablet support, not activate secret stacked hardware or whatever silliness.
I agree with most people here that DirectX 12 will try to counter mantle on PC and add Windows phone/tablet support, not activate secret stacked hardware or whatever silliness.
Frayne Daddy
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For some reason I love the way that tweet is worded.
Very interested to see what they can do
PNGs not working in your browser? There's a countdown timer in the OP that's a PNG image.
digoutyoursoul
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Sometimes it's best to say nothing
justsomeguy
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Good find! Keep digging...
Stuff like this is getting me inappropriately excited for this. Bracing for disappointment.
justsomeguy
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xna appears to be dead a long time ago. However you can write c++ and .net apps today that target DirectX on windows 8, I'd put any money you like on that being unveiled as the xbox home developer model at the //build conference in April: xbox retail console plus free edition of visual studio plus presumably an xbox sdk to expose kinect etc. = home dev nirvana
note this is all speculation based on public information, I don't have an inside line on it.
I figured as much now...
Broken Hope
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Why would it be? Sony will have their own low level API for coding to the metal, they don't need Mantle.
Nostremitus
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It is because it's AMD and GCN. There's a difference between being capable of using and actually using the API. Technically, the PS4 could be DX11.1/12 compliant, but that doesn't mean it'll ever run Microsoft's API.
My response was a rip at DX12 being Mantle integration.
rokkerkory
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an additional 53mhz?
EternalTruth
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Hopefully this new API will help improve some of the memory constraints the X1 faces in order to run games in native 1080p.
Angelus Errare
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Dan isn't the speaker from Turn 10, it's Chris Tector.
justsomeguy
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refresh the OP and have your mind blown (yes)
EternalTruth
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1pm EST, 1 hour and ten to go.
Atomicfireman
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So rumor has it that Microsoft is skipping the competing standards war and just going to use Mantle itself in DirectX 12.
But they will phrase that as "we are bringing Xbone API to the PC!"
Gamesadict
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Can't wait! I really want to see what they are bringing.
I wouldn't hold my breath for that last one. MS has been seriously pushing Unity for game dev on all of their platforms. I attended a seminar by them and it was all about Unity. I got invited to an other one that's going on in a few days and it's Unity again.