Directx12 Forceful Change Will Be Bad
Recently we have been informed of directx11 support being dropped. This will be very bad for the player base. You need to massively increase the the GPU requirements further than it currently is. Cards with in the 1080 range will be hit quite hard by this. While their gpus have direct x 12 support I don't think staff actually sat back and thought about what all those support.
Below is a list of features that comes with basic directx12 supported gpus. These features are missing completely from 1080 models or lower. Possibly even some models above the 1080 line also may fall in this category.
Do no drop directx11 support. You will hit the game in a very massive way removing 10's of thousands of players who can no longer play due to compatibility issues and the game not running properly. Please before pushing this change highly consider the restrains old cards are going to be hit with the list below is all features missing from directx12 support.
(List of features a 1080 does not support with directx12) While it does support directx12 it also doesn't support a lot of the features it should.
- No hardware support for parscal architecture rt cores
- Newer cards allow turing, ampere, Ada lovelace
- variable rate shading
- mesh shaders
- sampler feedback
- hardware acceloration
- advanced compute and encoding
- direct storage
- avi encoding/decoding
- performance and efficiency enhancements
- practical impact
- Ray Tracing (DXR - DirectX Raytracing)
- DirectX 12 Ultimate Features
