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Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Jan 04, 2011 5:00am PSTOh, hello there. I didn't hear you knock, Internet. Sit, sit. I've been on holiday since Crimble, getting high on life and a mysterious elixir I found in a bucket round the back of Tesco in Tooting. Tingly! Now, it's back down the video games mine to pry gleaming chunks of glee from the gameface for your delight, education and amusement.
Is geek culture mainstream and what does that mean for geeks? A chap by the name of Patton Oswalt has written for Wired that geek culture must be destroyed to save it. I might suggest that what he seeks still exists, unknown to him, and would argue that geek culture must be destroyed to save us all but I'm like that. Still, I found it an interesting read, especially as I had only known Oswalt for 'King of Queens.'
I'm home, you wonderful little darlings.
The new Frostbite 2.0 engine will be DirectX 10 and 11 exclusive, no DX9 path will be supported.
A DICE developer Johan Andersson has tweeted: 'Frostbite 2 is primarily developed for DX11. XP & DX9 is _not_ supported, 64-bit OS is recommended. Lots of time to upgrade if you havent!' Oh well. Windows XP is almost ten years old now, expect this more and more.
This is AWESOME news. I wish someone would take it further and wave a magic wand and say "for now on, all PC games have to use DX10 or DX11(or open GL =) and 64bit OS.
I feel like this is the year that we are gona see massive PC gaming progression, I hope I am right.
Do you guys think its time to dump DX9 and 32bit OS or is there tones of juice left in DX9 and really most engine devs are just lazy or constrained by consoles?
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