Playing DirectX 11 games on a DirectX 10.1 video cards.

[WolfsDogs]

Is there a way to make a DirectX 10.1 video card run games that use DirectX 11? I seen videos on YouTube done it but does it really work? Like how do I make the game run so it thinks I have DirectX 11 card? I can lower the settings the lowest to make it not use DirectX 11 I think but I seen videos on YouTube run DirextX 11 games like BF4 or Crysis 3.

 

[Eximo]

To run a DX game that requires a set level you need that level. Many game engines will support lesser versions of DX but some features will be unavailable.

Basically you can run what you can run and you can't what you can't. No real other way to deal with it.

Here is a handy chart that shows supported graphics cards by DX revision:

http://solidlystated.com/hardware/list-of-directx-12-and-directx-11-compatible-video-cards/

 

[cdrkf]

Is there a way to make a DirectX 10.1 video card run games that use DirectX 11? I seen videos on YouTube done it but does it really work? Like how do I make the game run so it thinks I have DirectX 11 card? I can lower the settings the lowest to make it not use DirectX 11 I think but I seen videos on YouTube run DirextX 11 games like BF4 or Crysis 3.

There can't be that many DX 10.1 cards left can there? Surely you could upgrade to something a bit better? There are plenty of second hand DX11 and DX12 capable cards around that wouldn't cost much...

 

[WolfsDogs]

Well I was wondering that if a game needs a feature for DirectX 11 can it just ignore that feature and just use whatever that DirectX 10.1 has? Is there a way to just launch the game even I don't have DirextX 11?

 

[rgd1101]

Thing about youtube is don't believe everything you see on youtube.

 

[WolfsDogs]

Well as I said on my last post is there a way to launch the game like BF4 or Crysis 3 on a DirectX 10.1 video card? Looks like you guys posted right when I posted.

 

[Eximo]

Some game engines can, but not all. Some parts of DX are used for the basic foundation of a game engine and thus are the minimum requirement.

When DX9 was still the most common denominator, lots of companies were shipping PC games with two executables, one compiled for DX9.0c and one for DX10/10.1. Really that was the difference between x86 and x64 games though.

 

[WolfsDogs]

How about Crysis 3 or BF4? Can they run on DirectX 10.1 somehow?

 

[rgd1101]

How about Crysis 3 or BF4? Can they run on DirectX 10.1 somehow?

not unless they released a patch for it. No.

 

[WolfsDogs]

Just wondering but was the video for playing BF4 using a low end GeForce 210 on lowest settings on YouTube fake? I saw it lagging and stuff but was running. That card has DirectX 10.1. Here's a video of BF4 playing on GeForce 210. There are others too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irMpCfN0_Z8

 

[Eximo]

From what I am seeing BF4 does have a DX10 mode, but you MUST have a DX10 card to even launch the game.

The slightly older Bad Company 2 offered support for 9.0c, 10, and 11, so it looks like they dropped support on the next revision up on the Frostbite engine.

Only supports DirectX 11 and 11.1;[18] backward compatibility for DirectX 10 and 10.1 GPUs is provided by DirectX 11.[19][20]

 

[rgd1101]

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=3060&game=Battlefield%204
bf4 yes.

 

[WolfsDogs]

Well then why when I tried to run BF4 using Origin it won't launch since it says I don't have DirectX 11 video card? How do I make it run on DirectX 10 mode? I have the full game and the CD with case and I put it on my Origin account but it won't run. Does Origin try to open the DirectX 11 mode in default?