FrictionalGames OpenGL Hero

[Argoon]

Tommas nice to know that you guys will maintain the OpenGL render with the new D3D one.

I personally have a Dx11 card and OGL 4.1 AMD HD 5770 and they are more inexpensive everyday, so when your new game arrives i bet DX11 cards will be the norm.

About the guy that said Id uses OpenGL on the X360, that is not true even tough the new idtech5 engine is still OpenGL that is only on the PC and on the PS3, the engine on the X360 uses a similar render to D3D9 (dx9), why? Because the Microsoft console only supports directX.

To the ones that have doubts about the new DirectX 11 version here is a explanation.

Dx11 is a evolution of dx10 that was a rewrite of the dx9 API.

Dx11 supports dx9, dx10/.1 and obviously dx11 cards, this is to say that if you make a dx11 ONLY render for your engine, dx9 and dx10/.1 users will still be able to play your game, a dx11 OS like W7 or Vista is required though. Why is this possible? May you ask, is possible because dx11 was made in a way that is able to disable features to adapt to the users hardware, for example if a user has a dx9 GPU, them dx11 will disable all features minus the ones supported by the old GPU, the same for a dx10 card.