Windows 10: Microsoft: DirectX 12 will increase your graphics performance by...

Microsoft: DirectX 12 will increase your graphics performance by an additional 20 percent

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Great news !

*Smile

:)

 

Windows 10 DirectX 12

Ehm... no. The DirectX features you're probably missing have nothing to do with your Windows version. The main DirectX 12 advances are bound to hardware requirements (your CPU and GPU must cooperate well to increase performance - low end systems can't
do this, etc.).

 

Directx 12 install

your gpu supports directx 12 but intel hd graphics 4000 does not.

so intel hd graphics 4000 is running directx 11.2 but check nvidia control panel, your gpu is running directx 12.

In mine it was like this.

 

Just have to wait until MS finalizes it, HW gets updated as well as drivers and games get developed to use it. Game makers will have to drop their "Mantle"s and the likes of it, My guess is that in couple of years will see some results. Another BIG question is how compatible it will be with earlier versions, Dx11 is not really a good example of compatibility with earlier versions of it. For Dx12 to be all it's supposed to be, main HW manufacturers will have to come to unprecedented coordination.

 

Mantle did it's job. It got others to look at using APIs that were closer to the hardware.

I really wish more games had implemented Mantle support. My framerates in Thief jumped massively with it enabled. Glad to see that DX12 is following the same lines.