Why doesn't MS get enough credit for DirectX?Every GPU innovation ever only exist because Microsoft kickstarted it through DirectX. Remember when GPU went from the separated Vertex and Pixel shaders paradigm to the unified shaders paradigm around 2006 ? That was because Microsoft rewrote their graphical API stack for WIndows Vista and the Xbox 360. NVidia and ATI only created GPUs that would work with the new API.DX12 on Windows PCs and Xbox is pretty kino.
>>107627457they don't get credit for a lot of things they did in windows
>>107627457when shit just works nobody notices
They got credit for it in the form of people using their platform for so long. The current team does not deserve credit for this, but people still give the old teams credit by saying windows used to be good. There's not much point praising the current product for something made by people who are no longer there.
>>107627457directx was never that great, it was just the lesser of 2 evils, after voodoo died and glide3d with it, you had to choose between opengl or directx, opengl stagnated, thus directX was the obvious choice, but they too dragged their feet on many things , for instance ati cards have had a tessellator unit since the radeon 8500 (2001), but we didn't see proper tesselation support until dx 11, if you wanted to use it you had to use a custom vendor extension, same was true for nvidia, many features were not added to the directX spec , only available through custom vendor extensions , Of course if micosoft wasn't bad enough, they actually do offer access to these features on their console versions of directX(on the xbox and xbox360 ), but decided not to push them to PC for market segmentation reason, same reason we didn't get halo 3 on pc at launch despite them having a pc build of it ready.so Generally microcunt , is fake and gay and they deserve all the hate they get.
>>107627820at the time, competitor to glide was direct3ddirectx is wrapper for all things including direct3d, sound cards, input etc
>>107627457Sorry we use vulkan
>>107627457DirectX is cheap knockoff OpenGL.
They're worth a trillion dollars, they got all the credit.
>>107627457because it's a bad proprietary api. simple as that
>>107627847novody cares for your pedantry
