Official comment on DX11/10.1/10 and AA

[Jack Lusted]

Hi everyone, we thought some things should be cleared up and decided to post a new thread to keep all comments in one place.

Firstly, the reason the announcement of DX11 coming in a patch was a few weeks before release is because it was when the decision was made. We wanted to release Shogun 2 as stable as possible for everyone so pushed DX11 back to make it as good as we can. The patch for DX11 will be out within 4 weeks.

There is no AA in DX9 because of changes to the lighting system in Shogun 2. We now use deferred shading, the wiki article actually mentions some of the problems relating to it and AA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading

We are committed to making Shogun 2 the very best game it can be, and we believed it is an excellent game. We understand your frustration with recent news, but we want your game experience to be the best it can be for everyone.

DX10.1 will also have AA, DX10 will not. Both will also be enabled with the DX11 patch.

The graphics hotfix that is coming out will fix an issue where on some powerful macines the settngs were being limited to fairly low, the hotfix will allow them to select the settings their computer can actually handle.

Hope this has cleared some things up.

[Shabby_Ronin]

What about dx10.0, the thing that's not commented on?

[Spartan262]

Prepare to be flamed Jack. People will Flame this thread faster than a fat guy after an Ice Cream Truck.
Anyway. I never minded this stuff Cause my Graphics Card was never good enough to run Ultra.

[Jasheon]

The game probably doesn't have dx10

[Shabby_Ronin]

The game probably doesn't have dx10

shader 4 is greyed out, so obviously not.

[Spaxspore]

hell at lest they are making an effort.. I guess i am an optimist.

[longboat]

Yeah why will no one from CA comment on the directx 10 thing? Everyone in the forums is spewing around ideas but no one has facts. Comon CA spill the beans. Is there DX10 and does it have AA or not?

[bangell99]

zomg u lyed 2 us now were gonna cum and get u

u can run but ucant hid

nub

[Spaxspore]

Craig already posted saying

No DX 10 since its the same API as DX 11, and no AA

[Shabby_Ronin]

He said DX10.1, not 10.0.

[Googoo24]

hell at lest they are making an effort.. I guess i am an optimist.

Or a delusional customer who goes along with anything CA does.......That's what others say at least.

[Spaxspore]

I dont have the game yet so i cant go on the flame band wagon ethically.

Also yea i c that Ronin, he only talked about 10.1 not 10

[Jack Lusted]

Above post edited to clarify DX10/10.1 situation.

[agent 47]

Hope this has cleared some things up.

Nope, theres still alot of confusion on the forums over the game having dx10.1/aa in dx10

EDIT- Nevermind

[Spaxspore]

Its going to have it, just wait 2-4 wks guys, breathe

[random_samurai]

Why not tell us this when everyone started asking last week?

[Spaxspore]

cause then they would have lost ALOT of preorders. Thats money baby money. Its all about the bling.


PS.

For the love of God CA hire a PR person. This is going to catch up with you when you have devs/ programmers trying to play PR directors.

[longboat]

Above post edited to clarify DX10/10.1 situation.

Thanks, now it's official. Shame it had to come out after we all bought the game though

[Ham the Pharoah]

So, there's our definitive answer.

No AA except for DX10.1 and DX11.

No DX10, DX10.1 or DX11 until the patch comes out around mid-April. No AA till then.

[Shabby_Ronin]

But Lusted, we who have dx10 cards are not able to use the features, shader 4 is grayed out, so one assumes it is not working with dx10.0.

Why are you guys avoiding any talk of the dx10.0 problems, are you saying there will be no dx10.0 till a patch, why did it take so long to get this out of someone?

Nothing personal.