Gamespot heeft een emmer info verzameld over DirectX7. Als we onze vriendin in Redmond mogen geloven dan zal de nieuwe versie weer een paar performance verhogende features met zich mee brengen:
Two of the biggest features to come out in DirectX 7.0 will be hardware acceleration of lighting and acceleration of transforms and extensions.Right now, DirectX immediate mode passes rendering chores to the graphics accelerator. But geometric lighting and transforms are still done by the host CPU. Bachus suggested that most of the benefit would come from accelerating transforms. The hardware lighting implementations that Bachus has seen seem limited to a handful of hardware lights - eight or less.
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