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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dasun Liyanage" data-source="post: 17778773" data-attributes="member: 176408"><a href="http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/operating-systems/brendan-morgan/directx-12-and-what-it-will-mean-for-us-gamers/" target="_blank">DirectX 12 and what it will mean for us gamers</a>At the Windows 10 event today there was some talk of the next version  of DirectX 12 and what it will bring to the PC for gamers like us.  While DirectX 12 will only be coming to Windows 10 (and by extension  Xbox One as well) that probably isn’t such a bad thing for several  reasons, but mainly as the upgrade from Windows 7 and 8 will be free for  everyone within the first year. As Matt mentioned in his <a href="http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/operating-systems/matthew-wilson/windows-10-event-cortana-xbox-and-free-upgrades/" target="_blank">overview</a>  of the event a few hours ago, the next version of DirectX will bring  performance gains of up to 50%, even on DirectX 11 hardware. While this  isn’t a promise that all games running on Windows 10 will get a 50%  performance boost, even a small boost in a few popular titles could make  this worthwhile. The main titles to benefit from this will be those  that are CPU restricted today such as MMO’s like World of Warcraft.<img src="http://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DirectX-12.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />When you are running Windows 10 on DX12 capable graphics hardware (which apparently >50% of gamers <a href="https://twitter.com/DirectX12/status/558001496852148226" target="_blank">already have</a>),  there are going to be some substantial gains in performance as far as  games developers are concerned, with DX12 providing “closer to the  metal” access to both CPU and GPU, probably much the same way as AMD’s <a href="http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/development/jon-martindale/microsoft-responds-to-mantle-with-dx-upgrade-plans/" target="_blank">Mantle</a>  does now. As well as this they will be making performance improvements  by reducing the load on your CPU from API overhead and Intel showed off  exactly how well this <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/08/11/siggraph-2014-directx-12-on-intel" target="_blank">works</a> in August last year. Futuremark, creators of 3DMark explain, “Games make thousands of draw  calls per frame, but each one creates performance-limiting overhead for  the CPU. APIs with less overhead can handle more draw calls and produce  richer visuals. The 3DMark API Overhead feature test is the world’s  first independent test for comparing the performance of DirectX 12,  Mantle, and DirectX 11. See how many draw calls your PC can handle with  each API before the frame rate drops below 30 fps.” Futuremark have announced that they will soon be releasing a version  of their 3DMark benchmarking software that will include tests for “API  Overhead” and this will test both DX11, DX12 as well as Mantle to see  how they stack up on your hardware. The demo used in todays Microsoft  briefing to show off the power of DX12 on Windows 10, was in fact  this 3DMark benchmark. Some development studios have also announced that they are  already adapting their engines to use DX 12 features, including Unity  with the Unity engine and Epic Games with their Unreal Engine 4. These  two engines cover a large portion of the games being released for the  Windows platform today and this should mean that next-gen titles  released over the next few years using these engines on Windows 10 will  look all the more detailed while running smoothly.තව කොහොමත් මාස 6 ක් විතර යනකොට Windows 10 එලියට එයි. DirectX 12 එක්ක VGA cards නුත් එයි මාස 8 කින් විතර.අපරාදේ GTX 970 ගත්ත උන් 70ක් දීලා <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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