A bit easier:

ATi Radeon 5xxx series / Nvidia GeForce GTX 4xx (and up) supports it.

At this point, we can't say, though I don't expect Skyrim to use any Direct X 11 features, I wouldn't even count on Direct X 10, but I could be mistaken.

Looking at the screenshots, I'm definately not seeing it, though it could just be that the screenshots are taken on consoles, or meant to represent what players can expect from the game on consoles, so if there are any optional Dirext X 11 features, they've simply been disabled for the screenshots. But even if I had a computer that supported such technology at this time, I wouldn't get my hopes up about it.

In any case, it seems to me that this isn't really a technology that so many games have fully taken advantage of yet, and I could certainly see it not being in Skyrim, maybe we'll see it in Fallout 4 or the Elder Scrolls VI though.

The Radeon 2xxx-4xxx have hardware tesselation support as well, but that feature wasn't strictly standardized until DX11. In fact, the Radeon 2xxx-4xxx tesselation is incompatible with the DX11 specification.

I don't care the slightest about other hardware tessellation solutions. I'm talking (and we are talking here) about the DX11' one.

Sorry but you're a PC in what is now a console world

No. The game is dx9. They have already confirmed its dx9.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2010/04/19/hear-that-knocking-sound-its-pc-gaming/

The screens we have seen from all the mags are 360 screens, of course there is no tessellation on the 360. I think that the PC version will more than likely have tessellation.

Bah, Tessellation...what Skyrim really needs is http://developer.nvidia.com/object/optix-examples.html

Hey, I can even run some of those demos with a 9600GT even at 7 fps...that in the default (pretty small) windowed mode, of course

P.D: My favourite one is "Cook"...it looks simply amazing.

Yeah, if only it was possible at this time lol. I can't wait for the day when raytracing is as common as bump mapping *drifts off into a daydream*

Well, having in mind this:



...and doing some maths:

9xxx: 1-7 fps.
GT2xx: 1 or 7x3 or 4 : 3 fps (at worst), 28 fps (at best).
GTX 4xx: 3 or 28x2 or 4: 6 fps (at worst), 112 fps (at best).
GTX 5xx: Slightly better than the GTX 4xx. (7 fps at worst, 120 fps (or so) at best).

Well, that having in mind that the base is my old, crappy 9600GT, and that's in default windowed mode, but the progression seems promising, isn't it? I'd say that in abouuuut.......3 or 4 GPU generations it could be possible

EDIT: Fixed "worst" numbers, due to a error in the first one that mistook all upper proccess.

Don't forget Radeon HD 6xxx series supports dx11 too (That's what I have :wink_smile: )

Thinking about it, tessellation makes me think of displacement mapping.

height maps.



Yep and I'll be waiting for that day and when it arrives I'll stroke out from all the shiny goodness. It's just so far away though :sadvaultboy:

I hope so, because my computer can handle it.

To be honest, I have a ATI Radeon 5870 and can play Bad Company 2 on full settings and it's just as fun to play it on my PS3 version. I wouldn't mind it, but I'd rather them focus on getting the gameplay right. Which is what it sounds like they're doing.

Well its not like the guy working on graphics is also the guy in charge of game play, so having him (continue) working on graphics isn't taking away precious time to work on game play.

I agree. We'll just have too wait and see.

Well, having in mind that a game engine that uses Real-time Raytracing has to calculate not only each ray of light per pixel, but also it's effects in the environment (reflections, refractions...), plus all the other common 3D stuff (everything relating models, textures, landscape, etc)...I'd say 3-4 GPU generations is even too soon

What it'd be even cooler is a 3D engine that would use raytracing in a completely procedural environment (models/textures). Amazing graphics in less than 10 mbs of disk space! All done with algorithms and hardcoe GPU power!

I want some tron crap going on in my lifetime, I want to be in the game :celebration:

Well, I'd say we'll definitively see it done for sure in....20 or 30 years aprox. At least if a WW doesn't break up in the meantime