WYP
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The Division 2 will not DirectX 11 support?
Read more about The Division 2 being a DirectX 12 only game on PC.
Read more about The Division 2 being a DirectX 12 only game on PC.
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 listed as a DirectX 12 Only Game on Steam
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The_Governour
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Did not like the look of the first so I think this might be another pass for me.
Dicehunter
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Going by Massives past track record with DX12 on TD1 this could be good or could be bad.
When Massive introduced DX12 to TD1 roughly a year after release, Pascal based cards saw quite a performance increase, When running my 1080 Ti I consistently saw a 20FPS increase when switching from DX11 to DX12 with the inbuilt benchmark which also lowered frame times, Had less texture popping etc...
Although in later updates Massive broke DX12 and that performance gain disappeared so I hope they don't mess it up again.
When Massive introduced DX12 to TD1 roughly a year after release, Pascal based cards saw quite a performance increase, When running my 1080 Ti I consistently saw a 20FPS increase when switching from DX11 to DX12 with the inbuilt benchmark which also lowered frame times, Had less texture popping etc...
Although in later updates Massive broke DX12 and that performance gain disappeared so I hope they don't mess it up again.
Never saw any gain. Only negative effect. But I agree. Hope they learn from their mistake. Really excited for this one.
WYP
News Guru
Let's be honest, when there are two options one is always going to get more work than the other.
If Massive wants to only support DX12 with The Division 2 they will be able to maintain it well, as they don't have the option to ignore it.
I really hope that The Division 2 can run well at launch, though the original never posed PC gamers that many issues performance wise.
If Massive wants to only support DX12 with The Division 2 they will be able to maintain it well, as they don't have the option to ignore it.
I really hope that The Division 2 can run well at launch, though the original never posed PC gamers that many issues performance wise.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Going to really hurt there Total Addressable Market however so that would mean less money for them. Bold move
TheF34RChannel
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They're partnering with AMD on this one ugh! Little to no interesting library features then as compared to GameWorks, really miffed about this news.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Not that gameworks is great.. only great thing is Ansel and even then I've never even taking a photo using it. Outside of that all you get is worse performance
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
I actually really like Gameworks, Yes it's a performance hog but then again what it's doing is pretty compute intense, I love Physx smoke in the Arkham games especially in AK, Looked amazing and really added to the atmosphere IMO, Same goes with the Nvidia Turf in Wildlands, Really nice feature, Shadow features like PCSS give shadows a really nice natural look in Assassins Creed Unity/Syndicate and then Nvidia's TXAA, Makes the image look so clean.
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TheF34RChannel
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Precisely, and then we have AMDs offerings which pretty lackluster in comparison IMHO
I always felt that Nvidia as good as gameworks is, intentionally cranked the grunt required to 11 to experience it properly. Or in other words, an incentive to buy a second card from them and go SLI.
when I had the 980Ti in SLI gameworks wasn't a problem and beautiful to have enabled. Especially hairworks.
TheF34RChannel
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Yeah hairworks was murder! AMDs solution was better for it. It does seem you need a top end card to enable all the goodies, about SLI I'm unsure.
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