Could DirectX 10 work on the 360?
Its a pretty exciting time with all that is happening in Germany at the moment, but we think this rather subtle announcement could have rather large connotations for the whole Xbox 360 market.
As you may have gathered from the title, it seems the Xbox 360 may be able to handle DirectX 10, one of the most important components of the whole new Microsoft push for games on Vista and PC games in general. If it could be made to work on the 360, games such as the upcoming Crysis may be far much easier to port than previous imagined. This would give the 360 a huge advantage over other consoles (including the PS3) as it alone would have the capacity to handle proper PC ports. ATI seem to think DirectX 10 could be implemented via a simple update over Live, so this really could be the next step in Microsoft’s ever impressive stride towards the upcoming console war.
We will have to see where this leads, but this is definitely an exciting idea. Lets hope Microsoft implement it in the near future.
Thanks to Syphon for that tasty piece of news.
Thought that this was confirmed. “it seems”
CRYSIS :’)
You need to double check your sources.
http://www.joystiq.com/20...-directx-10-confirms-ati/
Sorry to disappoint, but this rumour has already been debunked by ATI - http://www.joystiq.com/20...-directx-10-confirms-ati/. Although the 360 does run an advanced version of DX9, which can enable some DX10-class functionality
http://digitalbattle.com/.../24/ati-denies-dx1…
ATI Denies DX10 For Xbox360
August 24th, 2006 by Darren Stevens in Hardware, Xbox360, Technology, PC, Rumor, Software
ati logoYesterday we reported on a rumor suggesting that ATI could make the Xbox360 Xenox graphics chip run DirectX 10. It was highly unlikely, and ATI han now cinfirmed that. A spokesperson from ATI says:
“Xbox360 cannot run DX10. The Xbox360 has unique features including memory export that can enable DX10-class functionality such as stream-out. From what we’re hearing, Crysis will support DX9 with some sort of use for DX10 features. It’s likely that those DX10 visuals can be replicated on the Xbox360, but it can’t be properly called DX10.â€
Games might end up looking close to their DX10 PC counterparts, at least that’s something.
Hmmmm.
The story seems at least part in true, but rest assured we will check it out. If it does prove false (and all your sources seem damn credible) we will sort it. Thanks guys!
Guys the Xbox 360 runs a modified form of Directx 10. DirectX 10 can not run on any machine besides a PC, therefore it was modified to run on Xbox 360. ATI simply says that you can not CALL it DirectX 10 when running on the Xbox 360 however all the features are the same as the PC version of Directx10.
Wow, the PC fanboys were straight into denying it all.
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