» Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:11 am Why again, you Crytek trying to force us DX10 and DX10.1 cards owners to buy DX11 card if our top DX10 can handle everything you offered in this upgrade, except hw tessellation?
Why you forcing this artificial limitation to DX10 user, while we can use 90% out of box?
Why you forcing DX10 user to use DX9 without all that features that out card could actually handle with no problem???
I have even funnier facts to share:
DX11 rendering module CryRenderD3D11.dll have 2 funny DLL imports
of d3d10.dll and d3dx11_42.dll - so in fact DX11 rendered uses both DX10 and DX11.
But wait, its not even important, because
"Direct3D 11 runtime can run on Direct3D 10.0-10.1 hardware using a concept of "feature levels", but new features will be supported exclusively by new hardware."
If you still didnt get the idea, maybe this would explain you better:
"At Microsoft’s Gamefest show, the CTO of Microsoft's Entertainment Business Division, Chris Satchell, revealed that ‘DX11 is totally compatible with DX10. There's not that 9/10 discontinuity we created before.’ This doesn’t mean that DirectX 10 hardware will only be running DirectX 10 features under DirectX 11, either. According to Shacknews, ‘Microsoft also disclosed that DirectX 11 will add features to existing DirectX 10-compatible hardware.’ After all, once you have a unified shader architecture, your GPU’s processors are no longer locked into the architecture of a specific API."
So the point is - Crytek already created working DX10 rendered though DX11 but artificially locked DX10 backward compatibility, disabled everything of DX11 render, that DX10 card could handle, and forced DX9 rendered instead without all that goodies that DX10-10.1 cards can do.
Question is - WHY CRYTEK? Why you did this? Why you left DX10 with DX9 only? If that just stupidity of incompetence of your coders (which i cant believe myself) who can use properly DX10 though DX11 at DX10 card, or the reason is the same that ruined Crysis 2 from begining? Greediness?
Why greediness? We are all heard, that Nvidia paid few millions for release of this damn "GIFT" with DX11, that was promised to be part of game since 1st days of announce.
But what could Nvidia take back? Boost of new Nvidia videcard sales of course!
And how could they get this boost? Easy!
They just pay Crytek extra million of $$$ and ask to lock already existing by default DX11 >> DX10 compatibility, so every owner of yet pretty good DX10 card would be limited to DX9 features only, and will have no other choice but to go and buy new DX11 card, just to see all that locked things, that his year old DX10 card could render without problems. Perhaps AMD could be in deal too, since both Nvidia and AMD wins if everyone will be pushed to replace DX10 card with brain new DX11.
So Crytek, 1st you sold out youself to console market, now you cant even release a patch without selling it to videochip venders and without some commercial artificial limitation ?
=>>> And so I Ask again : Why are you so obsession about DX 11 ?
And , i already work on the downgrade DX 11 to DX 10 , it's will be done in no time , and my brother can play the game , with key ... of course and won't waste a $ in upgrade a new VGA =]]
i would also know whats the true, i just read this more weeks ago...
