EVE General Discussion

Why does eve still not make use of direct x 11?

I know its the new expansion pack it broke everything...

Dunno everytime you complain about something ti seems to break further on you. .

DX11 puts more priority on performance optimizations than actual effects (WoW has no DX11 effects, but has DX11 capability). Several of these optimizations are not GPU based, and optimize memory and CPU resources - working as such even on a system that has only a DX10 capable GPU.

Because those with directx10 and 9 video cards i.e. most of eve players won't be able to run it? CCP could in theory make their engine have multiple rendering subsystems but that's more maintenance work later on for them to deal with.

Your space-barbie looks weird...

CPU savings and efficiency improvements in large fleets - could be quite significant. But how large and how much that would improve gameplay would be something only the EVE coders would be able to work out. I also suspect they'd be able to get further with other types of changes though (though perhaps more intensive).

DX11 and DX10 uses the same basic codepath - DX11 is opt-in by default. (So they'd "only" need a DX9 and DX10/DX11 path)

I like tessellation more than most , but what would tessellation buy in Eve? Better looking asteroids? Better looking ships when zoomed way the heck in? Granted, using it for character rendering has some merit, but it won't add all that much to the experience for FiS.

Multithreaded rendering is also interesting but think about multi-client use of Eve. My main PC may have 4 cores with hyperthreading, but that doesn't mean I want one Eve session using all of them. Eve is not Skyrim, or CoD.

Finally, while DirectCompute is also interesting for computation-intense work, the actual physics in Eve are rather simplistic (deliberately).

For each of these features, there's no truly compelling reason to use them when they're merely optional features that only add technology checkboxes without serving the Eve aesthetic. Further, if they were used to serve the Eve aesthetic, this would then make them a requirement, and DX11 is still new enough that most users won't have one of these cards. Three years from now will be an entirely different matter.

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Isn't eve still on DX9?

because it would require them to reimplement their entire rendering pipeline, and shut out anyone who hasn't upgraded from XP yet (hey, i'm fine with that. you're using a ******* 8 year old OS).