Vista Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 They expect it to be released together with SP2 for Vista in late 2008. DirectX 11 has a new feature called "Ray tracing" to render more realistic 3D graphics. Three spheres that reflect off the floor and each other. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSmiggins Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Wait, Ray Tracing's new? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted March 31, 2008 MVC Share Posted March 31, 2008 Where did this come from lol :s Ray Tracing isn't new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CY:G Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 What day is it tomorrow.... oh yeah.... I might be real but there is no way that it is "almost done"... Hell i can count with one hand the number of games that support DX 10. And the number of games made exclusively for DX10 = 0 (nil) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guruparan Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 hmm..cool...but not sure whether any game will utilise those effects at its max...because dx 9 is still rocking ..and only very few dx10 games have been released as of now...(i think its been more than 1 yr that vista has been released!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vista Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 Development is expected to be very short as much of the work had already been done by Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Charming Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Fail. April 1st is tomorrow, and Windows 7 is using DX10.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted March 31, 2008 Global Moderator Share Posted March 31, 2008 sounds shady. by late 2008? probably not. last i read, ray tracing is extremely computationally intensive... makes you wonder how performance will suffer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoko Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Well to be fair it says it's a "new feature", which for DirectX it is. Yeah, it's been around since the 60's though at least. Now if they are smart they'll release DirectX 11 for XP and Vista, but they probably won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted March 31, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 31, 2008 While I'd love to see ray tracing in normal PC's, It's still too slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S. Veteran Posted March 31, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 31, 2008 Hahaha! DirectX 11 switching to ray tracing! That doesn<t even make any sense, remotely! Obviously an early April's Fool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krome Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 This is a bad April Fools joke... Really bad one. I don't buy this crap one bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGS4-SS Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 OMG Micro$oft outdoing themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phalesafe Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 If Intel did most of the work its only because of Larrabee's insanely multiple x86 core design being used for stuff like this. Perhaps they are extremely serious entering the Discreet GPU market once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowRanger13 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Pretty sure Direct X 10.1 came out less then 2 months ago and we have very few Direct X 10.1 devices. Direct X 11 is probably a while off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoDEAN Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Vista SP2, eh? Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danrarbc Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 April Fools joke obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundayx Veteran Posted March 31, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 31, 2008 This is a weak start for April fools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dotdot Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Does it support Sloof Lirpa, the new technology developed in Intels Swedish offices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qdave Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 dx10 was just released and you are talking about dx11 :D it will take years for that :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napalm Frog Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 I don't know its relation to DX11, but I do know one company (Intel?) was investing in ray technologies. It was interesting, because nVidia thought it was stupid, and that the current methods were fine. I think the interview on this came out like 2-3 weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unto Darkness Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 I smell BS! Gee, I didn't know I smelt that bad... :spam: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo003 Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Yeah and I just won a f**king 10 million dollar lotterey. :spam: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 April's I think Vista SP2 the end of 2008?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANova Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Good luck finding hardware that will run ray tracing faster than a slideshow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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