The game starts in DX9. How to run DX11?

[ST_RydeR]

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[MeGa]

I dont know, but happening the same! Nobody else has the problem? Did you fix it? What a joke, dx 9 with dx12 card!!

[MeGa]

Bump, can others confirm me if their game is running in DX9? Maybe is a bug? In the taskbar it shows as dx9, amazing, reasearched on google, nothing

[IamLegend]

there is no DX11. Game runs in DX9

[PhamTrinli]

dat 15 y-o tech..

[MeGa]

Thanks for reply! I own the game on uplay (thats why no mouse icon here) but I have it open right now and I was going mad. It's not that the graphics are utlra bad, but they really feel like dx9. Thanks for your confirmation, im still lil bit surprised the game runs only dx9 but well...

[Xtenzor]

yep the graphics are a bit outdated. same as the engine

[MeGa]

So, seriously, everybody is running the directx9 version? I mean....in the videos or screenshots everything looks better, and I have it all set to ultra etc. I can play ARK at almost max settings with very decent framerate, and it also doesn't look like the trailer....and people complained about it etc. But this case is much worse!
Sure game will be great (have bought all games on release including heroes 1 xD) but....doesn't it look even worse than 6? In the screenshots or videos not but ingame....

[PhamTrinli]

I think it basically comes down to just being a different aesthetic than heroes 6 - and one that many are not personally as fond of.

As to why it was only done with dx9 support - I have no idea.

[MeGa]

Great, the graphics aren't horrible, just they look much worse than the screenshots and videos here in the store (just checked them again) and ingame there's no way, even with a dozen of titan X and using all the tools from nhancer / nvidia experience etc you could get those graphics. Not even 4k. Are the screenshots from heroes 8 and not 7?
hope im just missing an option, or they need to update it, fix a bug, or whatever, the lightning etc looks from 1980.

[PhamTrinli]

1980 rofl

[Geeves]

It is common practice to "doctor" screenshots with post effects. What you are seeing is not "real" in-game footage.

[MeGa]

As I stated before, I got even heroes of might and magic 1 retail, back in the middle age. And got every new entry of the franchise, plus a shtload of other games. YEAH, all do that ("doctor" screenshots with post effects) but also the video, and other footages, are like a couple generations far from what I see.
Im convinced the game will be great etc, didn't expect huge visuals but an improvement from 6, and textures look great, polygons also, but shader / lightning / effects etc, look much worse than expected. Realy thought game was not launching in dx11 for a bug, and looks like its not anything like that, but normal 2015 game with dx9. Wasnt heroes 6 dx11 already? anyway...amazing.
Not unrecommending this game or bashing it, but my jaw dropped over my balls when I started mission. "just" that. xD

[Rei dos Vermes]

DX9 is old tech, but at least you can achieve perfect IQ by forcing 4xSGSSAA with it.