[Maelthras]

The game is undergoing a patch very soon, and I just read the fine print at the bottom of the patch notes, and it appears warcraft is doing a very major visual update as well, including support for DX11. The info is at the very bottom of the patch notes.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/pat...tr-patch-notes

•Support for DirectX 11 can now be found in the Advanced tab of the Options screen.

 

[[nK]Sharp]

So...this will have dx11 before crysis 2.

 

[fazio93]

WoW gets DX11 before Crysis 2...

 

[Heret|c]

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Originally Posted by fazio93 WoW gets DX11 before Crysis 2...

Not to mention graphic settings.
Actually WoW had DX11 for 6 months already and used it for Water.

 

[Norlig]

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Originally Posted by Heret|c Not to mention graphic settings. Actually WoW had DX11 for 6 months already and used it for Water.

this

 

[noshibby]

so when does this patch officially release?

 

[Kand]

For a game without SLI/CF support...

 

[xBlitzerx]

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Originally Posted by [nK]Sharp So...this will have dx11 before crysis 2.

Crytek = owned

 

[Liamo Luo]

I think people often forget that DX11 is used to just optimise performance and not instantly provide amazing graphics over DX9.

 

[Heret|c]

Wow is not terribly optimized. It's simply not optimized at all. It doesn't care about your GPU, it get's bottlenecked by HDD, fsb and CPU. I highly doubt that DX11 will carry all those calculations over to your GPU.

 

[EfemaN]

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Originally Posted by noshibby;13075859
so when does this patch officially release?

The PTR just came up, so it'll be a few weeks yet. Some random Tuesday in the next month or two.
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Originally Posted by Kand;13075888
For a game without SLI/CF support...

It's not the game that supports it, it's Nvidia/AMD with SLI/CF profiles. AFAIK, they have had their profiles out for a long time. I just fired up the game and saw equal (albeit low) usage on both of my cards, without any tweaking to NVCP or the like.
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Originally Posted by Liamo Luo;13076208
I think people often forget that DX11 is used to just optimise performance and not instantly provide amazing graphics over DX9.

True; from what I've seen, people have blindly shouted DX11 as if it's a game-changer. However, if they can put more weight on the GPU, it'll be worth it; the game could use any optimization it'll get.
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Originally Posted by Heret|c;13076635
Wow is not terribly optimized. It's simply not optimized at all. It doesn't care about your GPU, it get's bottlenecked by HDD, fsb and CPU. I highly doubt that DX11 will carry all those calculations over to your GPU.

For all your nay-saying, I actually agree with this one. The game needs a new engine... though obviously that won't happen for WoW; they're putting work into Titan...

 

[Ksireaper]

WoW has had DX11 Support since the release of the expansion.

So that is going on 5 months now.

They beat crysis 2 before crysis 2 was even out.

It helps to read patch\\expansion notes.

 

[Chairless]

Yep experimental DX11 support was in the cata patch, there were reports of 20-30% increase in fps from some people and i noticed an improvment when i played.

The DX11 update had nothing to do with graphic quality or new effects.

 

[linkin93]

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Originally Posted by Heret|c Wow is not terribly optimized. It's simply not optimized at all. It doesn't care about your GPU, it get's bottlenecked by HDD, fsb and CPU. I highly doubt that DX11 will carry all those calculations over to your GPU.

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Originally Posted by Ksireaper WoW has had DX11 Support since the release of the expansion. So that is going on 5 months now. They beat crysis 2 before crysis 2 was even out. It helps to read patch\\expansion notes.

DX11 helps fix this because it offloads CPU workloads to the GPU. Increasing performance, because anything CPU's can do, a GPU can do it 10x faster. Why do you think people crack passwords using GPU power?

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Originally Posted by Chairless Yep experimental DX11 support was in the cata patch, there were reports of 20-30% increase in fps from some people and i noticed an improvment when i played. The DX11 update had nothing to do with graphic quality or new effects.

 

[Zackcy]

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Originally Posted by Heret|c Wow is not terribly optimized. It's simply not optimized at all. It doesn't care about your GPU, it get's bottlenecked by HDD, fsb and CPU. I highly doubt that DX11 will carry all those calculations over to your GPU.

MMOs get bottlenecked by internets too ya know?

 

[Chairless]

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Originally Posted by linkin93

It broke some water effects and added the odd reflection.

The move to DX11 is about huge increases in performance, not tesselation or new kinds of lens flare in the disneyland that is wow.

Whats funny?

 

[linkin93]

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Originally Posted by Chairless It broke some water effects and added the odd reflection. The move to DX11 is about huge increases in performance, not tesselation or new kinds of lens flare in the disneyland that is wow. Whats funny?

The fact that you said a new API with more features and better performance had nothing to do with graphics quality or new effects. It has everything to do with it!!

 

[Chairless]

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Originally Posted by linkin93 The fact that you said a new API with more features and better performance had nothing to do with graphics quality or new effects. It has everything to do with it!!

My point, you missed it.

Twice.

 

[Goaky]

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Originally Posted by Heret|c Wow is not terribly optimized. It's simply not optimized at all. It doesn't care about your GPU, it get's bottlenecked by HDD, fsb and CPU.

I agree to an extent, but at times there are hundreds of players visible in WoW, which makes it a very CPU intensive game, no matter how much you optimize it. My Q6600 is struggling @ max settings. Bottlenecked by HDD? I haven't encountered such problems, please elaborate.

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Originally Posted by Zackcy MMOs get bottlenecked by internets too ya know?

 

[Birdy1337]

Its pretty sad how WoW gets DX11 before Crysis 2..