14 DAY TRIAL // The past year has practically been packed full of talk regarding the DirectX 11 graphics technology and what it let game developers do, but it is now said that most makers of such entertainment venues would like DirectX as a whole to go away.
Even without an actual CEO, AMD has been saying a lot of things lately, some of them more surprising than others.
For example, the Sunnyvale, California-based outfit said that its Fusion APUs would cause quite a few problems for regular CPUs, especially on the low-end market.
Now, Bit-tech reports that the company is of the opinion that, while popular, the DirectX standard could actually be said to limit what game developers can do.
In fact, AMD developer relations team leader Richard Huddy even went as far as to say that some game makers would like DirectX to go away altogether.
Granted, the technology has been used in quite a few of the newest game, but id Software, to name one company, has been sticking to OpenGL instead, although Direct3D was recognized to have evolved enough to warrant a switch.
Either way, it is the opinion of Advanced Micro Devices that game makers would much better be able to push things ahead if they had direct access to the hardware instead of this standard which, admittedly, is widely compatible and familiar.
One of the things Huddy pointed out was that, although far superior to game consoles in terms of performance, modern graphics don't really show off their superiority in actual games.
All in all, though DirectX has been a prime element of mainsteram PC gaming ever since titles started coming out in serous numbers, it might not be all that desirable because it limits, to some extent, what game makers can accomplish.
Regardless, time will tell what happens next, although the disappearance of the standard is quite unlikely.