Comments on: The Witcher 3 Resolution Change on Xbox One “Requires Bigger Change” Than DX12

By: GHz

GHz — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:56:00 +0000

Uh Uh. Damien Monnier did a poor job @ explaining this for the sake of the web. Bigger change as in rewriting their game engine code to get better performance. That’s what he meant. They discussed this @ GDC. If your game started on older API(s) just porting to DX12 might NOT do anything. In fact you can even get slower performance because with each new SDK, new concepts are introduced. Its very hard to keep up with that stuff time wise. For example new resource binding concepts etc. To take advantage of that, you literally will have to rewrite your code. So Yes! The Witcher 3 Resolution Change on Xbox One “Requires Bigger Change” Than DX12! He is NOT saying that DX12 is Not beneficial to XB1 overall. He is talking about the specific situation with their game, The Witcher 3, and the way its coded. Remember that game started out way before the specs for both consoles were set. These guys were flying blind in regards to the consoles. Especially with XB1 and its changing API. So yeah its true. He cant promise improvements if they decide to support DX12, and that’s because of the nature of code involved when they were building The Witcher 3. Not all games are built the same, and we certainly cannot expect developers to have the same goals when it comes to their games. Lets not take what he said out of contexts.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:20:00 +0000

In reply to ak33715. It would see some, albeit marginal, benefit if they ever port it over to dx12, but yea....he's just pissing on MS to piss on them.

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By: ak33715

ak33715 — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:09:00 +0000

In reply to red2k. Yeah I don't get that myself, either. Of course a game not built with DX12 isn't going to see any of the benefits. Not sure they this guy's tweet is getting so much traction when we know The Witcher 3 on Xbox wasn't built with DX12, but DX11.

By: Designer Dragon

Designer Dragon — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:08:00 +0000

Definitely getting this on PC, wow the Xbone version sounds terrible.

By: red2k

red2k — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:54:00 +0000

If you game isn’t designed to run propeproperly with DX12 the improvments will be limited I don’t know why this guys don’t say “hey the game is on DX11 and we are limited”.