DirectX 12 Feature Level requirement?

[Sniperfox47]

I know Ark will be supporting DirectX 12 sometimes later tthis summer, but does anybody know what feature level(s) it will target?

I'm currently running on an old i7-2630QM and fermi GPU (Geforce 460m) laptop and am very interested in the performance benefits of DirectX 12, both on the GPU and CPU side. The issue is Fermi will only support the 11_0 feature level (Low-level DirectX 11.0 feature support), and not the new DX12 features.

Will the 11_0 and 11_1 feature levels be supported for older cards, or is DX12 only being looked at in terms of supporting the latest DirectX12 cards?

P.S. On a similar topic, it's mentioned in the patch notes that there's an optimization in the works for nvidia cards for a huge performance jump, does anybody know if that's targeted towards certain card series, or universal across nvidia?

[Domenco]

you know only 1 card will be dx12 ready and its the upcoming top end gpu from nvidea, all the other variations from both amd and nvidea will not support dx12. This is inline with when dx11 came out and when dx10 was released.

[Chocoyote]

Originally posted by Domenco:

you know only 1 card will be dx12 ready and its the upcoming top end gpu from nvidea, all the other variations from both amd and nvidea will not support dx12. This is inline with when dx11 came out and when dx10 was released.

no thats completly wrong.. they support dx12 but not fully only the future cards will have full dx12 support. the ones now support some features of it.

[X]

Originally posted by Domenco:

you know only 1 card will be dx12 ready and its the upcoming top end gpu from nvidea, all the other variations from both amd and nvidea will not support dx12. This is inline with when dx11 came out and when dx10 was released.

My GTX 970 supports DX12 and DX12.1 feature levels. So does 980, 980Ti and Titan X

[Sniperfox47]

Domenco:
DirectX 12 is nothing like DirectX 11, or any previous DirectX version. It is simply a low level API for accessing the graphics card, with a few new features added in.

Any DirectX 11 or higher card with software support (drivers + kernel/OS) can support DirectX 12 with the same features it had in DirectX 11.

In fact all Nvidia Maxwell (800 series up + later 700 series) cards that are already out support feature level 12_0 or 12_1 and all AMD Graphics Core Next 1.1 and 1.2 cards support feature level 12_0

[Sniperfox47]

Sorry for the bump, but does nobody know?

[Wardiaper]

This is probably a more appropriate question for the Nvidia and/or AMD forums or even the Microsoft forums.

[bobbybell36]

My AMD r9 295x2 supports full DX12

[Sniperfox47]

I'm not asking which cards support DirectX 12 >.> I know that much. I'm asking which feature level the game developers will be targeting/requiring.

If they add support for DirectX 12 but require the 12_0 feature level, the vast majority of DirectX 12 compatible cards will not run the game in DX12 mode. I don't imagine they'd require that, but I wanted to clarify.

It's my undersanding that like OpenGL handles feature levels, they can support a range of DX12 feature levels, and gracefully fall back on cards that don't support the higher feature sets, but the question remains what the bottom feature level they'll support is.

[The Omnidon]

i want to know too... its supposed to be out by the end of the month

[Desertworld]

Originally posted by Da Trollsta:

i want to know too... its supposed to be out by the end of the month

yeah better reply to that 4 month old thread and see if someone replies to a topic no one except the devs have an idea about. good idea