direct x 12 support

[Pc6777]

I know that direct x 12 is coming soon... I am a bit worried that my machine cant support it... im almost 100 percent shore that my gpu will support it(gtx 560 ti) because most websites say most Fermi and kelpler cards will get direct x 12 support... I also know that kelpler and Fermi cards wont get full support and Maxwell cards will get all the bells and whistles... So will I be able to play all the dx12 games just without the extra features of Maxwell cards??? I also have windows 8.1, will dx12 support that? all I am finding is people saying that windows 7 wont get it and windows 10 will but not much on windows 8... I have an fx 6300 cpu I am nearly positive my cpu will support it... so my gpu will support it if they say most kelpler and Fermi cards will get it??? will windows 8.1 support it??? will games not work on my pc that are made for dx12??? all answers appreciated!

 

[Pinhedd]

I know that direct x 12 is coming soon... I am a bit worried that my machine cant support it... im almost 100 percent shore that my gpu will support it(gtx 560 ti) because most websites say most Fermi and kelpler cards will get direct x 12 support... I also know that kelpler and Fermi cards wont get full support and Maxwell cards will get all the bells and whistles... So will I be able to play all the dx12 games just without the extra features of Maxwell cards??? I also have windows 8.1, will dx12 support that? all I am finding is people saying that windows 7 wont get it and windows 10 will but not much on windows 8... I have an fx 6300 cpu I am nearly positive my cpu will support it... so my gpu will support it if they say most kelpler and Fermi cards will get it??? will windows 8.1 support it??? will games not work on my pc that are made for dx12??? all answers appreciated!

Hi,

It is almost certain that DirectX 12 will require a device driver that is compliant with WDDM 2.0, which will ship with the Windows 10 kernel. In other words, the version of DirectX supported by the display driver is tightly coupled to the Windows kernel. Ergo, it is extremely unlikely that DirectX 12 will be made available to operating systems other than Windows 10. However, given that Microsoft plans on releasing Windows 10 as a free upgrade to all Windows 7 and 8 users this should not be a huge issue.

As for the hardware side, it's possible that modern architectures from Nvidia and AMD are sufficiently flexible to implement some if not most of the DirectX 12 features through a simple driver update. Newer architectures that natively support DirectX 12 may of course perform better.

EDIT: AMD's website has updated the R9 series GPUs to indicate DirectX 12 support. Although the HD 7000 series cards still list DirectX 11.2, the R9-280/R9-280X both list DirectX 12 despite being based on the same chip as the HD 7900 series.

 

[Pc6777]

thank you very much, I did hear about windows 10 being free for a year... I just don't want to have to buy a license after a year... also will some games not let you play unless you have dx12?

 

[Pc6777]

will I get windows 10 for free forever or only for a year?