EVE General Discussion

For, but I haven't seen any videos yet

Simply saying HELL YES YES YES YES YES.

And Make it so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxHAZChcYU

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Here are some facts about DX11:

a) DX11 has "feature levels ", which means you can have engine written using DX11, but it can run on DX10 and DX9 hardware, you just have to switch off certain features not supported by the hardware

b) DX11 has some very nice multi-threading features, which allows for multi-threaded submission of commands to the gpu as well as free threaded resource creation. These features are instrumental in achieving higher frame rates on multi core machines as well as loading assets like textures in without frame rate stuttering

c)It allows for some really awesome graphics :)


Most of what you saw in the demo can run on ATI as well, except for the PhysX stuff, that is Nvidia tech.

DX 11 is the next step for Eve engine, whether we like it or not.


Now for some of my observations:

The tessellation in the demo is not very optimal, there is no LOD technique (aka distance) implemented and some surfaces are tessellated even though they wouldn't have to be. Obviously this would be fixed when it makes it to Eve.

Unfortunately all that added geometry detail doesn't shine as much if you do not increase the texture resolution.

I'm quite sure that's been intended. Imagine they'd show the model with LOD enabled, e.g. the front showing all those tiny quads/triangles and the distant parts showing the big mash. Tech savy people (probably the minority; no offense!) will know what's happening, however the rest of the audience (or at least a significant part) will just shout "booh, they're cheating!". And doing it the less performant way in a demonstration just to show it can be done, is probably the pretty much best solution they could have come up with.

Overall, really looking forward to it and nothing to fear for people on older systems (directed to everyone here):
- It's already been mentioned, the DirectX 9 client will continue to exist (this one will be important as it will be the only one still running on Windows XP).
- The updated client with DirectX 11 will run on Windows Vista/7/8 and provide the maximum hardware acceleration/quality supported by the card while still providing some additional performance gain from DirectX 11's software implementation part (e.g. multithreading support).

+1 hell +200!!

tbh the game right now, at almost 10 years old, looks better then any other MMO out there. I dont think it needs it

but i like shiny things so go for it!

will it melt my pc?

If not - then yes: make it so number one.

C.

wheres is the dev blog about thios?