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ESO Drops support for DX10 - players now frozen out of the game.
JudgeUK
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That's what's happened.
The Thieves Guild patch also ended the ability to play if you had a pre-DX10 set up.
Now it doesn't affect me (and I'm successfully running the newer 64bit option), but there's a growing list of people who have been playing this game for years and now find themselves suddenly frozen out.
Needless to say there is a mounting level of dissatisfaction, (that's the calmer description), as people find out this is the cause of their game instantly crashing when trying to play after yesterday's Thieves patch.
Now not everyone has money available to suddenly upgrade their pc, so it appears Zenimax have successfully dropped a portion of their player-base overnight.
Irrespective of personal opinions on whether everyone should or should not have a DX10 capable rig, to alienate some long standing players, literally overnight, is an extremely poor decision making process.
The Thieves Guild patch also ended the ability to play if you had a pre-DX10 set up.
Now it doesn't affect me (and I'm successfully running the newer 64bit option), but there's a growing list of people who have been playing this game for years and now find themselves suddenly frozen out.
Needless to say there is a mounting level of dissatisfaction, (that's the calmer description), as people find out this is the cause of their game instantly crashing when trying to play after yesterday's Thieves patch.
Now not everyone has money available to suddenly upgrade their pc, so it appears Zenimax have successfully dropped a portion of their player-base overnight.
Irrespective of personal opinions on whether everyone should or should not have a DX10 capable rig, to alienate some long standing players, literally overnight, is an extremely poor decision making process.
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People need to keep their PC's updated... DX9 was the XP verision of Direct X...
It is not an opinion that support for DX9 stopped years ago...
Given how few actually use those OS's i would be very surprised if anyone even noticed that Dx10 wasn't supported anymore tbh.
Still no biggie, as Zenimax stated for over a year that you should have a DX11 capable PC to run the game. If people didn't upgrade in the last year... that is their own fault.
What hasn't helped some players is the Thieves patch on the pts was playable with DX10, but this was changed when it went live.
One of the greatest disservices WOW did to the genre was to establish the precedence for MMORPGs to run on PCs with low performance graphic cards so the "masses" could play.
Prior to that you generally had to buy one of the higher end cards every time a new one came out, just how things were done in the early days.
I remember how this market trend change caught Brad McQuaid by surprise before Vanguards launch.
He said in an interview they coded for the next gen of video hardware, only to be surprised when they launched the playerbase no longer had nor were willing to upgrade to play his game.
The mass market had spoken, and while catering to them proved to make more money, it did not make for better MMORPGs, quite the contrary, its been holding them back ever since.
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So taking away support for what is now an extremely old platform, is unsurprising, if anything i would expect more and more games to phase out support for Dx9/10 assuming they haven't already, and here i am including games like WoW.
I fully expect to see more games in the future supporting Dx11 and/or Vulkan as a minimum standard, probably Vulkan as its the only real multi platform option.
In terms of OS you can still get cheap Win 7 of ebay/amazon.
Especially as MS soon will cut all ties with pre Win10 tech as they move on to their WinHive model. =P
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even though my System *Win10pro 64bit* says it's running DX11 apparently that is a software DX11 and not a 'hardware' DX11 ....
There is a 'feature' tab on DXDIAG that reads 10,9.1.. yadad yada ...
So now I and many others are locked out from the game.....
and no.... I do not have cash to run out and buy a card or a PS to run the card.
Bye ESO.... I'll miss ya...
Also they specified that they need a video card, after that I'd point a finger at whatever OS/driver/video card manufacturer made you think that you have a DX11 compliant video card.
and since modders can't save ESO ass for being stupid I so want to see how much time it will take till they resume the support again lol
my gamming pc I still run a win 7, not willing to use a win 10 too much garbage on that "free" system,and will only change if I want really hard to play a new game then won't support win 7(with I can change mod and the hell with it).
but still the problem here is a old game who was running ok with dx10 can't do it anymore for lazyness of the company, but hey if you think eso is so sucessfull they can bleed even more players, go ahead be a prick and defend a company who are just being lazy and kicking they own player base out
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I know they made PCI DX11 cards, but, can you still buy them, not sure.
Besides don't you think they already examined the data as to what PCs their playerbase is using? I mean if 50% of their playerbase was still on DX9 do you think they'd drop it? Hell I don't think they would drop it even if only 10% were still using it. Sorry but if anyone is still on DX9 in 2016 they shouldn't be gaming anymore. Graphics cards with DX11 are below 100$ already.
Also ZOS seems to care only about quality, they are focused on improving ESO all the time. Most MMOs are simplified and made very accessible, ESO is not one of them. This is another proof that ZOS is taking ESO forward, rather than playing it safe and slow. Dropping DX9 will open up a lot of new opportunities that weren't possible before. Next is coming support for DX12, probably next DLC.
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Either way, you're saying it's not very popular on Steam. Compared to what MMO? Right now ESO has 2.4k average players per month, while FFXIV 5.2k. So that probably means that FFXIV has more steam players than ESO right? Wrong.
Check the Steam Spy stats. ESO sold ~500k copies on Steam with 52k players in the last 2 weeks, while FFXIV ~400k with 41k players in the last 2 weeks. Numbers can be very misleading, especially in the case of ESO when there are so many casual players. ZOS has the perfect customers, they will play for years spending only a few hours per week.
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not sure I follow...7 days to die which is an indie early access titles has more than that many players pretty much all the time.
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