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Microsoft: DirectX 11.1 with Native Stereo-3D Output Is Exclusive for Windows 8.

Started by: TA152H | Date 11/14/12 10:29:39 PM
Comments: 7 | Last Comment:  11/15/12 11:37:31 AM

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The reason Microsoft ported DX 11 to Vista was because everyone had plenty of reasons to get off that OS, and hated Microsoft for making it. With XP and Windows 7, people are generally not unhappy with it, so little stuff like this is Microsoft's way of trying to push people to use something they otherwise wouldn't be interested in.

1 0 [Posted by: TA152H  | Date: 11/14/12 10:29:39 PM]
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That makes no since at all. If they wanted people to get off Windows Vista, then they wouldn't have given it the update.

What is wrong with you?
0 0 [Posted by: Maza  | Date: 11/14/12 11:11:41 PM]
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Think before you post, if you can.

They would always prefer to move people to the next OS, it makes them money. With me so far?

Windows XP was an OS they liked. They had to stop upgrading it, so more people would go with Vista. Got it?

Vista, like you, wasn't very well liked. People moved off it anyway, and Microsoft looked like a good guy moving other technologies to it. Also, they were more interested in getting people off XP, which was still the dominant OS. Getting people off Vista was easy, it sucked.

Windows 7 is well liked, so Microsoft better stop upgrading it, so people will get Windows 8.

Got it? If the OS sucks, people leave it behind anyway, if it's good, they don't offer upgrades to create reasons to move off of it.

You really can't understand that?
0 0 [Posted by: TA152H  | Date: 11/15/12 12:12:30 AM]
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whats wrong with him ? apparently nothing.

its your comprehension of what he typed thats apparently lacking Maza,but no matter, he said MS ported DX 11 to Vista TO try and make xp user's move to Vista/or STOP USERS dumping that Vista version of their OS and returning to XP depending on how you read it OC.

it didn't work OC as Vista was and is crap, but it does have DX 11, unlike XP that could also use DX11 if they actually back ported it there too, but they wont.

not that any of this "Native_Stereo_3D_Output_Is_Exclusive_for_Windows_8." really matters anyway as the OSS Encode/Decode apps devs x264/ffmpeg/avconv already wrote and so all their 3rd party downstream apps can also use the best visual quality generic Stereo 3D (8bit/9bit/10bit) encode/decode patches from the official specs long before MS even sold windows 8, and its cross platform too.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=158457
15th December 2010, 22:02
Dark Shikari,x264 developer

"Quote:Originally Posted by Dark Shikari
Close enough?"

"Quote:Originally Posted by shon3i
What is potential usage of this?"

"Encoding 3D video. What else?"
0 1 [Posted by: sanity  | Date: 11/15/12 05:08:43 AM]
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“With DirectX 11.1, WARP was enhanced with (among other things) support for DirectCompute and hence it is one of the accelerators for C++ AMP. DirectX 11.1 is part of Windows 8, just like DirectX 11 was part of Windows 7. DirectX 11 was made available for Vista (bing it), but at this point there is no plan for DirectX 11.1 to be made available on Windows 7,”

emphasis mine.

I wonder if Windows 8 will get the same treatment from Microsoft when it fails?
0 0 [Posted by: Maza  | Date: 11/14/12 11:12:27 PM]
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probably ,but then Direct Compute and OPENCL on x86 is a real mess non of them cut it for real HQ video encode for instance in their present forms as the right integer SIMD,SAD microcode etc is not in the gfx cores today to run the best algorithm's and the slow PCi-E bus just slows everything down to much passing the decoded data back to the CPU side for processing too.

so its probably up to the masses of ARM commercial vendors to now make it usable for something Compute generic on their mali T6xx kit etc so DirectX 11.1 is pointless on x86 Linux and probably ARM linux too right now unless its good for fractal based algorithmic super HD video frame de-noising etc perhaps.
0 0 [Posted by: sanity  | Date: 11/15/12 06:34:51 AM]
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Micro-suck for zombies, the masses are fleece sheeple dumb-down idiots.
0 0 [Posted by: Urhu  | Date: 11/15/12 11:37:31 AM]
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