'Supreme Commander' Loses DirectX 10 Support

GPG Axes DX10 Capabilities From Future Patches, Expansions

http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=10802

May 21, 2007 9:19 PM from

Gas Powered Games has ceased all development of DirectX 10 features for their recently released RTS Supreme Commander according to a recent forum posting from 'SonofShagrat.' GPG cited bad timing as the main factor behind their inability to add DirectX 10 capabilities to the title before shipment. Shagrat stated that "the availability of DX10 hardware, final releases of Vista itself, and the solid drivers simply did not line up with the necessary time frames in our development cycle."

Although the capabilities were rumored to be in the upcoming patch the forum post plainly states that the game, including expansions, will NEVER see those features and that GPG has decided to use those resources on graphical updates that will reach a far wider audience. Gas Powered Games is still careful to note that they will still be supporting DirectX 10 saying that they will be "integrating this exciting technology into future projects."

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Reply #1 May 22, 2007 9:13 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

I'm not surprised by this too much. The install base of gamers with Vista (and hence DirectX 10) is pretty small. Tack onto that the number who have DirectX 10 video cards and it's really, really small. It just doesn't make economic sense to spend development resources on such a small group - especially when everyone already says they can't run what you're providing in the base install as it is.

Reply #2 May 22, 2007 9:28 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

Agreed, although the fact that there are DX10 related options in the settings that are greyed out is a bit of a tease. I think the blanket statement of never having it in the title was a little pre-mature. Maybe one of their devs down the road during an expansion could figure it out or something. 'No DX10 in the near future' would have been a little easier to hear (I am one of those few people you are talking about although Vista & DX10 aren't on my main gaming rig

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Reply #3 May 22, 2007 4:05 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

I would expect GPG to remove those grayed-out options in a future update.

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