World of Warcraft now supports DirectX 12

[WYP]

Expect better performance... sometimes.



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[Dicehunter]

Blizzard need more than a DX12 patch, they need to renovate the whole engine, It's terrible at using available resources.

 

[WYP]

Blizzard need more than a DX12 patch, they need to renovate the whole engine, It's terrible at using available resources.

They need to start somewhere. Abandoning 32-bit and DX9 is was a good place to start TBH, as it allows them to take advantage of the newer APIs properly.

Hopefully things will get a lot better in time, but rewriting a game as old as Wow will no doubt take ages.

 

[jnemesh]

Not surprising. Nvidia's tech is optomized for DX11, and suffers horribly with DX12. They are going to have real problems going forward as more and more games are going to be optimized for DX12 (and for AMD in general, thanks to the consoles).