Ubisoft says DirectX 10.1 as good as DirectX 10

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Ubisoft says DirectX 10.1 as good as DirectX 10
Written by Fuad Abazovic
Friday, 31 October 2008 10:31

Why bother?

Nvidia got Vincent Greco Worldwide Production Technical Coordinator at Ubisoft to say that the advanced API feature in DirectX 10.1 is actually not that necessary and advanced.

The chap released super funny statement that goes like this: "The Ubisoftteam wanted to enhance the Anti-Aliasing through the reading of the multisampled depth Z-buffers. This feature was enabled by either using DX10.1 or using a DX10.0 extension supported by NVIDIA DirectX 10 GPU’s. Since NVIDIA supports this in their hardware, we were pleased to be able to accelerate this feature. In the case of Far Cry 2, either option will work with similar performance.”

You cannot guess that we are talking about “The way it’s meant to be played” title and that Nvidia has a huge influence in development and marketing of the game and that this guy didn’t had much choice than to say what he just said.

We wonder why Ubisoft and its Montreal team bother to implement DirectX 10.1 features when it all works well and as fast in DirectX 10 and I guess that is the answer itself. DirectX 10.1 makes some small difference but Nvidia will fight this argument as it doesn’t have DirectX 10.1 support.

Unfortunately, when the hardware makers meddle in the affairs of game programming the consumers are the ones who pay the price.

 

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Unfortunately, when the hardware makers meddle in the affairs of game programming the consumers are the ones who pay the price.

Money talks . . . Ubisoft is partnered with "The way it's meant to be played"

We all know what happened with Assassin's Creed.

 

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Money talks . . . Ubisoft is partnered with "The way it's meant to be played"

We all know what happened with Assassin's Creed.

Oh, I expect them to do what they did but I love the observation made in the article. Why use any DirectX 10.1 at all if DirectX 10 is just as good. Why was DirectX 10.1 actually made official if it isn't better than DirectX 10?

NVIDIA doesn't have 10.1 support and won't add it until DirectX 11 because to do 11 they have to have 10.1, as well. Propaganda, arm-twisting, and flat out lies will ensue until DirectX 11 is released.

I would really like to see more DirectX 10.1 games released. I mean real DirectX 10.1 games and not quasi "I can't believe it's not DirectX 10.1" games.