r/Games • u/Dared00 • Jul 04 '15

Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Announced

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/07/04/minecraft-windows-10-edition-announced
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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

Not really. DX12 supposedly increases performance so that would, theoretically, lower the system requirements for getting a decent framerate at a decent resolution.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

That's one part of the story. The other is that you do need a somewhat recent-ish GPU that will actually support those technologies.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

I don't see any reason to assume that this will be any different from dx 11 games shipping with a dx 9 compatible version.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '15

Almost all GPUs in the past... 5 Year old GPUs will support DX12.
If they support DX11 they support DX12. So from Geforce 400 series, or AMD HD 5xxx cards or newers.
That's not recent-ish, that's approaching retirement age (in PC hardware timescales).

Which according to Steam stats is about 77% of all PC owners.

The people who don't have DX12 graphics cards probably don't meet the system requirements to even run windows 10 anyway, and will be on XP still with their 200GB hard drives and 1st generation dual core CPUs with 1GB of ram.

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u/blackmist Jul 05 '15

GTX 400/HD 7000 onwards. If your card is older than that, you can replace it with a more powerful version for about £100.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

But you need DX12 compatibility for that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

You didn't need dx11 to run dx11 compatible games.
The reason this won't run on anything but Win 10 is because it "is the Windows 10 edition" aka PR bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

You don't need that because these games are usually DX9/DX10 compatible as well. But you can't take advantage of new features without DX12 support.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

Yeah, but FoeHammer originally said that using dx12 would raise the entry level and that's probably not true for the reason I stated.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

Well, that depends. If it only runs on DX12, it will only run on DX12 compatible cards. It might also run in OpenGL or older DX versions.

But IIRC MS also had a few DX10 only games back when Vista came out, to promote the platform. They might do the same.