It finally happens. This was providence.
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devblogs.microsoft.comPosted Aug 26, 2019, 4:07 PM UTC
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devblogs.microsoft.comdevblogs.microsoft.comdevblogs.microsoft.comPosted Aug 26, 2019, 4:07 PM UTC
y tho? Windows 7 support ends january 14th 2020.
that doesn't seem to matter for one third of windows desktop users.... who probably opted against being rolling release beta guinea pigs.
I promise that that one third is for business purposes, not enthusiast gamers.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
so we still got a decent fifth according to steam survey.
dx12 is certainly catered to non-enthusiast gamers as well since it makes otherwise CPU heavy games very playable on slower machines. the CPU overhead reduction is actually the main point of the low-level APIs to begin with... so that's the other side of it.