Newell: Vista-Only DX10 "A Mistake" [Aug 28, 2007, 10:32 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Gabe Newell: DirectX
10 for Vista was a mistake quotes Valve's Gabe Newell decrying Microsoft's
decision to make DirectX 10 exclusive to Windows Vista as a mistake that's
harming the PC gaming industry (thanks
Slashdot):
In an interview with heise online, Gabe Newell, president of Valve Software, said that Microsoft made a terrible mistake releasing DirectX 10 for Vista only and excluding Windows XP. He said this decision affected the whole industry as so far only a very small percentage of players can use DirectX 10.
When developing cross-platform games which are also released fo Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, developers look for the smallest common denominator. And since neither Microsoft's nor Sony's new consoles support Shader Model 4.0 for DirectX 10, only few games use it, he said.
In addition, Newell bemoaned the increasing lack of input device diversity in PC gaming culture. He would like to see controllers like the Wiimote or the Guitar Hero guitar, but since DirectX support for devices like these had increasingly been reduced over the last few years, developers didn't dare implement these expensive innovations.
The thing that nobody points out in Bioshock (or so I've read) is not that there's no performance (or visual) difference in DX9 and DX10, but that there is a HUGE difference in XP DX9 vs Vista DX9. I've been going back and forth between the two and there's no contest- Bioshock runs some 20 FPS better in XP than Vista. No special smoke effects are worth 20 FPS. I'm sorry.
Gabe is 100% on the money with this one. Microsoft is choking PC gaming to death with this.
Gabe is 100% on the money with this one. Microsoft is choking PC gaming to death with this.
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