Can you explain why you remove direct x 11 support ?
Hi,
So months ago you removed linux support, I played on linux. I accepted the reason, even if I did not agree. No, linux players are not all cheater but well, so be it. I understand why you did that. I bought a hard drive, installed a Windows to play the game. I have an old pc with a small configuration with an old graphic card and if you remove direct x 11 support I can't play the game anymore. Am I alone in this situation ?
You seem to ban player who want to play your game, legitimate players. Is it that difficult to keep direct x 11 and 12 ?
kaoimin and dhstyle2104
Read the patch notes. EA did explain this in them already.
BLUF, Bottom line up front DX11 was released in 2009 that makes it about 16 years old, technology moves on and so should the users of tech.
Link to the patch notes: https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/apex-legends/news/beast-mode-event
And a short excerpt/explanation:
This patch removes the option for DirectX 11. We discussed this decision and compared performance between DX11 and DX12 across the entire playerbase in this Dev Update. For additional clarity, DX11 was released in 2009 and as a result it does not have many of the capabilities shared by DX12 and consoles, including previous-gen consoles. Keeping DX11 increasingly requires maintaining two versions of the rendering engine: one only for DX11 and a second shared by every other platform. While continuing to support DX11 allows older GPUs to continue to play the game, it also slows down the development of our rendering engine considerably leading to fewer performance and graphical improvements over time.
DirectX 12 is supported by GPUs starting with the AMD Radeon HD 7790 and the Nvidia GTX 960. In Seasons 23 and 24, approximately 1 out of 1000 Apex players were playing on GPUs older than that at any given time. Rather than split our efforts, we decided to focus on improving the engine for the 99.9% of players who can make use of it.
