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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided won’t have DX12 at launch

We have been hearing a lot about the PC specific features of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided since its announcement last year. One of the big announcements for the game is that it would have DirectX 12 support, unfortunately, while we will be getting the DX11 version of the game next week, the DX12 version needs some more time and won't be available on the 23rd.

In an update on the game's Steam page, the Mankind Divided team explained that while DX12 was previously touted to be in the game at launch, this will no longer be the case: “Contrary to our previous announcement, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which is shipping on August 23rd, will unfortunately not support DirectX 12 at launch. We have some extra work and optimizations to do for DX12, and we need more time to ensure we deliver a compelling experience”.

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Fortunately, we won't have long to wait for DirectX 12 support to arrive, as it will be coming in a patch on the 5th of September: “Our teams are working hard to complete the final push required here though, and we expect to release DX12 support on the week of September 5th!” [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyyMhAOWvf8′]

Aside from that, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided also got a new trailer today, giving us one final look at the game prior to its launch next Tuesday.

KitGuru Says: For the most part, DX12 games like Rise of the Tomb Raider and Hitman haven't offered massive performance gains over their respective DX11 counterparts so far in my own experience. With that in mind, I'm not too disappointed by this slight delay, though I do wonder how many people were really looking forward to having DirectX 12 on day one. Do you guys tend to opt for DX12 nowadays whenever it's available? 

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8 comments

  1. How about vulkan? My 290x enjoys a 30’percent boost with it in doom. Dx12 sounds like Microsoft desperate to help nvidia stay alive for kickbacks. This is how the world works. Dx12 doesn’t offer the performance gains that vulkan does. Another suitcase of cash changes hands. Nvidia can afford to bribe and bribing is standard corporate practice. Aka corporate donations ect. AMD are destined to push profit hungry nvidia out of the picture eventually. No more gimping for serial execution nvidia to stay alive.

  2. DX12 offers more of a performance gain than Vulkan. Don’t let AMD’s awful OpenGL performance fool you into thinking Vulkan is better than it is. It’s embarrassing as a PC gamer to read people making this mistake over and over.

  3. Troll

  4. The truth doesn’t make me a troll. These are standard business practises. Small petty brained sheeple.

  5. No, sad AMD user always complain about Nvidia. Just play and STFU. Tired of “crying poor me” people !!! Do you do the same thing with your car !! My god !!!

  6. No you’re still a baby. Nvidia bought out 3dfx a decade a go and the price gouging and profit making business practises begun. They would buyout AMD but AMD know they will take over soon enough by not gimping their hardware and price gouging. Why my ancient 290x still is awesome when the equivalent nvidia 780 of the same era is so hopelessly out of date now with no async support but doesn’t stop nvidia releasing a stack of cards each year barely improving on the last showing little innovation. Without AMD you would be paying more today for a more gimping and retarded video card for profit. Say again that nvidia aren’t a greedy profit hungry business? Go back to Minecraft thx.

  7. Ya a baby!!! I hate minecraft kid!

    I see the beginning of 3D. From before CGA to now. Your ancient 290X is a good card yes. (run like a toaster for the reference cooler card, and have the worse reliability of the 200 series. 7 to 12 % hardware failure because of heat) My old SLI of GTX 480 too, is a good card, and run hot. (But run cool on a custom watercooling loop) Never had one problem ! Run everything at max (1080p), for a 2010 card is very good! (Your “gimping” no brain argument from a fanboy).

    My SLI of GTX 980 too, run everything without problem at all. GTX 980 is a very good card consider the price a paid for 2 ATI 5870 …. 5870 so expensive!!!

    I have a 5870 CF too, but in this time CF was so so, now it’s better. The support for the 5870 (2009-2010 card) is bad…worse than GTX 480. (your gimping theory….hoooo)

    (I have a CF 7970 GHz Édition too….same thing, bad support (2012) and one card was not stable at the factory clock, last AMD/ATI product) Kids are happy with my old stuff.

    Like many d ump people, you talk about Async, so funny. Average 5% more performance sometime. Stop being a sheep. Ho….my car can do 105 mph with a better spoiler! SOOOOOOO D u mp!! AMD and Nvidia use different architecture. AMD need Async / ACE because the have a “long pipeline” doing nothing. (analogy with Intel Hyper Threading.)

    Do you remember the AMD FX-57 ???? (2005)

    I have one, kick everything Intel made in this time. WITH NO HYPER THREADING!!!

    Ho my god, the FX-57 have no Hyper Treading……it’s BAD!!!
    (Like your argument, Nvidia have no ACE)

    And the FX-57 was a monster and was better than Intel CPU. Better architecture ! No need for Hyper Threading.

    Ho and you repeat everything than your “troupeau” of sheep AMD, tell each day. “Without AMD you would paying more today for your card.” And Same thing for you, if Nvidia and Intel was not present!

    Try to write something new.

    I have for CPU from Intel and AMD, both video card from AMD/ATI and Nvidia….Matrox too.

    Stop seeing a good company being bad, because is Number 1.
    There always #1 and 2, 3….

    You look like a guy/kid seeing conspiration everywhere!!

    Go back to your toys !

    FYI, i work in military aerospace, all our PC/Server/HPC run Intel CPU and Quadro Nvidia card, and Telsa for HPC. The failure rate have to be really low …so reliability sky high. It’s what Intel, Nvidia and other specialised provider give us.

    The support from Nvidia is #1.

    We have some system with Firepro, (test) but the support is not as good as Nvidia. AMD become better years to years, but the road is long to be as good as Nvidia.

    It’s what reality is right now.

  8. Poor you !!!