Path of Exile 3.6.0 will not support Windows XP or Vista
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"From what we can see, most of the players choosing to use the DirectX 9 version of Path of Exile were not doing so because their operating system didn't support DirectX 11, but because the old renderer allowed you to disable shadows."
That's me when playing from my laptop. I used to be able to play it in window mode with chrome on the side... on the same laptop... now i can barely play it fullscreen with everything closed. :( |
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" it's the opposite, you don't attract new players with graphics from the last millenium. you're forced developing forward and keeping backwards compatibility inherits a high cost in dev time (especially when it comes to testing your code) you can't pay for. but, imho, the real reason they drop support is the additional load they brought upon themselves with supporting 2 consoles, something has to go as a compensation. " so far nobody knows if they invested or expect a certain return of investment/year. they bought shares off some poe members but that's private money and has nothing to do with ggg's finances. sorry if my short post came over insulting, haven't had much time ;) offline
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Finally!
________________________ Immo_scion - Lv 100 solo - Playing in partys is too easy - solo for life :) | |
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My game is Constantly Crashing on DX11
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Well .. it's a start. However, everyone knows the right thing to do would be to drop all the *doze support in favor of a /proper/ OS.
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What a bad decision, instead of giving DX11-users the choice to disable a feature that so many players despise so much that they rather play with an "antique" grafics engine than to endure the shadows, you take away the only way to get rid of them.
The game looks so much better without them, but unforunately with the DX9-engine the games crashes every few minutes on my PC |
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" I'm on windows 10 with an i3 and a 970 and I never drop frames. Just tell your windows what you want it to do and not do. It's the most annoying windows version but it also has the most customization. |
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" Nothing on earth looks better without shadows. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/04/lahaina-noon-when-shadows-disappear.html Nothing. Literally looks like a shit render of a bad video game. Last edited by ClickerPro on Jan 29, 2019, 5:05:46 PM
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" POE looks WAAAY better without the shadows. The game already has too much eye candy. We don't need any more. The shadows are very hard on the eyes, they are distracting, and they make it harder to see things. If I'm forced to have the shadows on, it may well be enough to make me quit playing the game. DX11 is also buggy. GGG needs to fix the bugs and allow us to turn off the shadows, along with turning off a lot of other things. It's a never ending cycle. Software devs force people to buy new hardware, and hardware companies force people to buy new software. Neither of which is needed. Modern computers are blazing fast. There is no good reason why modern computers and software shouldn't last 20 years or more....except a few spoiled whiny brats want more eye candy. Well fuck them! |
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" because windows 10 is horsecrap ? Windows 8 had absolutely atrocious design decisions to begin with, and they upgraded it to 10, they didn't rework it from scratch. Microsoft fucked up big time with windows 8, they tried to somewhat fix it with 8.1 and 10, but you don't 'fix' a shit base designed for tablet like this, if you wanta new system you make one from a clean base. Which they didn't. I guess if I ever buy a new computer, that will be purism, many are already running PoE on Linux after all. Anyway, good thing to drop xp and DX9 support imo, I hope that we will see performance improvement from that :) SSF is not and will never be a standard for balance, it is not for people entitled to getting more without trading.
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