[Gragier_521]

DirectX 11, which will be based on DirectX 10, is the next generation of DirectX that is to be released with Windows 7, the same way version 10 was with Vista. Microsoft has not yet revealed whether or not version 11 will be exclusive to Windows 7, like version 10 is exclusive to Vista, but we do know that since version 11 is based on DirectX 10, Windows 7 will be backwards compatible with DirectX 10 graphics cards.

Very little is known about DirectX 11, but that should change soon as Microsoft will begin dishing the dirt in less than two weeks: the official announcement of the upcoming version of DirectX will take place at Gamefest 2008. (Registration for the July 22-23 Seattle conference is still open.)

It is not clear at what stage of development DirectX 11 is at right now, so there is no telling whether Microsoft will simply confirm the existence of the upcoming version, or whether the company will actually demonstrate something.

At Nvidia's NVISION 08 conference in late August, Kev Gee will be showing off DirectX 11. The session is described as follows:

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Kev will introduce the new DirectX 11 rendering pipeline currently under development at Microsoft. The technology builds on the existing DirectX 10 API set and adds new features including tessellation, multithreaded rendering, compute shaders, Shader Model 5, and more. Get up to speed fast with the next generation of rendering technology.

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[Syzygy]

Wow!

lets hope they don't make it exclusive to Windows se7en

[j4f]

Okay, we are announcing an annoucement

[RickSOLET]

How Microsoft will update the DirectX version of Xbox 360? It can't even run DirectX 10.

[ritesh]

wow... its really nice..

[pm_41]

Direct X 11? Sounds cool!

*thinks about fancier Google Earth graphics off the top of his head*

[Liskiller]

You won't see DirectX 11 games until 2011

[Razor VinT]

I hope they will demonstrate DX11 with an in-game footage or video.

[SharmanNet]

July 22nd is the day!

This post has been edited by SharmanNet: 12 July 2008 - 08:39 AM

[coldfire7]

chk this picture comparing DirectX 10 & DirectX 11...

[Villain]

is that John-Ryhs Davies there on the right?
Dwarf Throwing contest anyone? if you score a hit then you get a free advance copy of DX11!!!!!

[Merforga]

coldfire7, on Jul 15 2008, 05:58 PM, said:

chk this picture comparing DirectX 10 & DirectX 11...

The difference there is nowhere near the advancement that took place from DX 9 to DX 10. Honestly, if you showed me two faces and asked me to pick which is DX 10 and which is 11, I would have a tough time deciding.

[Jatin]

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The difference there is nowhere near the advancement that took place from DX 9 to DX 10.

Crysis and BioShock running on DirectX 9.0c would also look exactly like running on DirectX 10 expect for some minor visual effects. DX9 was much more advanced than DX8 if compared to DX9 to 10.

But we all know DX10 is in it's initial stage and it would become much advanced prior to the coming of DX11.