I'm drunk but.....

This is one of the reasons why I loathe playing on PC...

"DirectX 9 because of the Windows XP users"

Thanks for making things worse slackers. Upgrade/downgrade your PCs. PLEASE. Gonna have to anyways cause DX12 is quite literally a game changer.

/drunkrantoff
According to steam, XP users are less than 3% of steam population. I'd be curious to see if this translates well to PoE.

Btw, upgrading from D3D9 to D3D11 was already a fair amount of work. Upgrading from 11 to 12 is even more. The paradigm change is sensibly more important.
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Last edited by Panini_aux_olives on Aug 28, 2015, 4:35:24 AM
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SL4Y3R wrote:
This is one of the reasons why I loathe playing on PC...

"DirectX 9 because of the Windows XP users"

Thanks for making things worse slackers. Upgrade/downgrade your PCs. PLEASE. Gonna have to anyways cause DX12 is quite literally a game changer.

/drunkrantoff


It's really a poor excuse from Chris and nothing more. Even Microsoft doesn't support XP anymore.

And PoE will never be dx12, dx11 maybe, but 12? Nope.
The smart thing to do is actually to code for OpenGL and you have covered all the platforms.

If OpenGL is good for ID Tech 4/5/6 (Doom 3 / Rage / Doom 4), Withcer 3..., it's good for Grinding Gear Games :)

Anyway, rather than porting to DX12 they should spend their time optimizing the current engine. The graphics looks good enough, they are just badly optimized.
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OpenGL is a developer hell, but you're right, it exists on all platforms.
Agree on last point.
Vulkan strong. I really hope it catches on. At least Source 2 is already compatible with it.
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Switching from any graphics subsystem to any other is almost always a fairly tough prospect. OpenGL is only development hell if you keep trying to use the bits they are refining. Regardless, graphics are far from a good reason to play a game.

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tramshed wrote:
Switching from any graphics subsystem to any other is almost always a fairly tough prospect. OpenGL is only development hell if you keep trying to use the bits they are refining. Regardless, graphics are far from a good reason to play a game.

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Totally agree, for me graphics are just there to tell me what is going on and often if they are too shiny they totally fail at doing this.

But then again a like playing good old doom (although with modern controls :P) because it had way better gameplay than a lot of the modern fps and didn't get sidetracked with stuff that did not involve killing something.

xp is life
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Last I heard this game was for hardcore players. Hardcore players don't play on 10 year old tech. Hipsters do.

Since dx9 is considered outdated does that mean PoE is considered a hipster game?
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