{"id":10923,"date":"2011-03-28T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"amd-denies-slagging-off-directx-clarifies-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/10923-amd-denies-slagging-off-directx-clarifies-comments","title":{"rendered":"AMD denies slagging off DirectX, clarifies comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

After last week reportedly blaming DirectX for the shabby state of PC gaming<\/a>, AMD’s Richard Huddy has claimed that the comments – originally spoken in an interview with bit-tech.net – were taken out of context.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with CRN<\/a>, Huddy now says that only a small number of “very high end developers” (including DICE and Crytek) want to circumvent the DirectX API, and that “It’s not something most developers want. If you held a vote among developers, they would go for Direct X or Open GL, because it’s a great platform.”<\/p>\n

He also clarified that when he said devs want to “make the AP go away”, he actually really meant that API would “take a different form”. Which isn’t really the same thing at all, is it?<\/p>\n

Huddy doesn’t miss another opportunity to slap console gaming, though. “If you take the Xbox 360, it’s absolutely dwarfed by modern hardware – a game on a PC will always have a relatively thick software layer, a console does not.” he said. “We’re putting a lot more horse power at the high-end. But the software layer that lies between the PC running DirectX and the game itself needs to get involved in a lot of transformation.”<\/p>\n

“We’re simply letting Microsoft know the feedback we get from game developers. We’ve heard from the high-end and the low-end. The very high-end want something more in terms of performance. That’s information we give to Microsoft. They’ve done a tremendous job continuing to innovate with DirectX. Game developers, AMD and Nvidia offer constructive feedback because we want to see them continue to innovate.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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