Solved DX10 to DX11?

[winnseven7]

Hello

I am running XFX 285 in sli (GF GTX285, 648M ,1GB DDR3,DUAL DVI, TV PCI-E).
With DX10 support.

Is there any way to "upgrade" with a driver etc. so they are DX11+ compatible?
thanks!

 

[pbcopter]

As far as I know, it will not run DX11 since it is a DX10 card/

 

[winnseven7]

As far as I know, it will not run DX11 since it is a DX10 card/

Hi
That is correct, these DX10 cards won't run a DX11 game.

I was looking for a work around or a way to "upgrade" with a driver etc. so they will run DX11

 

[townsbg]

I don't know how to explain it, mostly because I don't know all of the details, but dx compatibility is hardware based and built into the card instead of something that is controlled by drivers. Try this thread and see post #8. GTX 285 - Can't enable DX11? - Deus Ex: Human Revolution Message Board for PC - GameFAQs

The short of it is that the card would have to be engineered to use dx11. Now the card would be able to play a dx11 game if it has dx10 backwards compatibility but you will have to get a dx11 card to get dx11.

 

[winnseven7]

I don't know how to explain it, mostly because I don't know all of the details, but dx compatibility is hardware based and built into the card.

I followed your link and got the answer, Thank you townsbg !

A good way for manufacturers to get you to buy newest card so you can play latest games , marketing strategy.

 

[RoasterMen]

Nope. That's just the way it is. Some cards were made support latest APIs because the APIs have features the GPU can handle. That GTX 285 could handle DX11 but I bet it wouldn't make sense because it'll be beaten by an HD 5970 already

 

[townsbg]

At the time that card was designed dx10 was probably the newest out and later on M$ released dx11 as technology evolved. The cards also evolved. That's the nature of technology. What you buy today will eventually become outdated.

 

[AddRAM]

The 285 is bordering on ancient and gets quite hot, time for some new cards. Don`t know what gear you own but the 1070`s will be very affordable, and a 970 will serve you just as well.

 

[winnseven7]

The gear bought around 2009 or 2010 is ASUS Gene MB, with i7 920 D0 step on air OC'd with CPU vcore , DRAM timing etc all manually set in BIOS. Basically nothing on auto

The cards never overheat or crash, plays Crysis high settings , and any other games aren't near as demanding as Crysis , even to this day I don't think any are.

I would like one of the newer 1070 cards but I'm happy for now, just wish DX11+ was on these 285's

 

[Indianatone]

I'm happy for now, just wish DX11+ was on these 285's

And that my friends is how the upgrade bug bites you. Honestly you are probably not missing out on much on Direct X 11/ 12 and I think much more will depend on the new cross platform API Vulkan.