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AMD Complains about DirectX

By james_fudge

If you have ever wondered why graphics on consoles look better than most PC graphics, AMD has an answer for you: DirectX. AMD worldwide developer relations manager Richard Huddy blames Microsoft's SDK for not being able to utilize the horsepower of today's graphics processors.

"It's funny," says Huddy. "We often have at least ten times as much horsepower as an Xbox 360 or a PS3 in a high-end graphics card, yet it's very clear that the games don't look ten times as good. To a significant extent, that's because, one way or another, for good reasons and bad - mostly good, DirectX is getting in the way."

Huddy adds that developers often ask him to make that API just go away. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 18, 2011 (boomark / email).