Xbox 360 will run DX10 with merely an update
Evil Avatar reported that ATI is claiming that the Xbox 360 will be able to run DirectX 10 games with a simple update. This is great and all, but will the hardware be capable of the same performance as a graphics card designed for DirectX 10, like the next generation of PC GPU’s will be able to do? I don’t know, but what a lot of people are seeming to miss is that any PC will be able to install DirectX 10, as well. That doesn’t mean that the PC’s graphics card will be able to run all of the DirectX 10 instructions.
The real question for me, is whether the 360 will be able to run all of the same instructions that dedicated DirectX 10 hardware will be capable of. I wouldn’t put it past Microsoft and ATI to build that kind of future functionality into the hardware, but since DirectX 10 is not yet finished, I would be very surprised if that were the case.
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The 360 GPU has a built in upgrade ability that will support the full functionality of the DX10 instruction set. This was planned 1 year before the hardware finalization, and do not worry the 360 is more then capable of using DX10!
That is awesome news! Maybe we’ll see Crysis on the 360?