Final Fantasy XIII where are the direct X 11 settings?

[bakudan]

I can't seem to find any settings for direct x 11 even though the store page mentions direct x under recommended requirements, maybe it isn't finished yet?

it says on the store page
System Requirements

RECOMMENDED:
OS: Windows® Vista/ 7/ 8
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Quad (2.66 GHz)/ AMD Phenom™ II X4 (2.8 GHz) processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® Geforce® GTX™ 460/ ATI Radeon™ HD 5870
DirectX: Version 11
Hard Drive: 60 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 11 compatible sound card
Additional Notes:
*Maximum supported frame rate: 60fps
*A game controller using Xinput is recomended for this game. (If using a DirectInput based controller, please use the driver side key configuration to adjust settings as required )

graphics side note - I have a gtx 770 2gb but yet the fps drops all over the place.

[talgaby]

That is just usual marketing bullshit. The game uses a 2007 engine that started out in 2005, finished before DX11 even existed as a working prototype.

[Hatman]

Originally posted by talgaby:

That is just usual marketing bullshit. The game uses a 2007 engine that started out in 2005, finished before DX11 even existed as a working prototype.

It doesn't matter wich DirectX was standard at the time because DirectX is a windows exclusive. The game was made for playstation, wich uses different API's (OpenGL derivates mostly i think).

The important timeframe here is when they started working on the port. That's when they had to adjust their engine to use DirectX commands.

[talgaby]

The engine was developed as a multi-platform thing since they knew they will use it in an MMORPG: the first version of FFXIV, released on Windows, used the same engine's slightly updated version. To my knowledge and by looking at the state of the initial port's release I'd say they changed nearly nothing in it. Maybe it needs something that can only be found in DX11, but it does not have any specific DX11 feature. Or at least graphical feature.

[JoJo]

It needs dx11 to run on windows, that's it.

It's the way they managed to port it.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Hatman:

Originally posted by talgaby:

That is just usual marketing bullshit. The game uses a 2007 engine that started out in 2005, finished before DX11 even existed as a working prototype.

It doesn't matter wich DirectX was standard at the time because DirectX is a windows exclusive. The game was made for playstation, wich uses different API's (OpenGL derivates mostly i think).

The important timeframe here is when they started working on the port. That's when they had to adjust their engine to use DirectX commands.

Originally posted by Hatman:

Originally posted by talgaby:

That is just usual marketing bullshit. The game uses a 2007 engine that started out in 2005, finished before DX11 even existed as a working prototype.

It doesn't matter wich DirectX was standard at the time because DirectX is a windows exclusive. The game was made for playstation, wich uses different API's (OpenGL derivates mostly i think).

The important timeframe here is when they started working on the port. That's when they had to adjust their engine to use DirectX commands.

The game came out on the Xbox 360 too which uses D3D 9.0c as it's graphics API. There is no way they would go to the trouble of making a DX11 version if they already had one made with DX9, And even if they did woudn't it run better that this?

[talgaby]

Not better, it was a question I think about additional shaders and graphical enhancements. Or just an overall "Toggle DirectX 11 features" button that was present in some games around 2010.