[Topgun]

Im a pc gamer that likes wii.

[MR_T3D]

some good points there. sometimes its easier to just talk to the registers instead of having a middleware api do it for you. on a console that works, but on a pc, it doesn't because your hardware wont be consistent. different instruction set extensions in your cpu and different gpu architectures pretty much make it very difficult to code direct to hardware. that is unless gpu manufacturers could all agree on a standard instruction set in their gpus. then theres the issue with future proofing. its not very often a pc game will run on a pc built several years after the game came out, even with an api (unless its opengl ). but if a standard instruction set was used on all gpus (possibly with manufacturer specific instruction extensions to cover proprietary features), then it would greately reduce the differences between nvidia, ati/amd, intel, etc, gpus, and greately reduce the dependency on an api and would allow direct to assembly code for gpu functions, which would be very fast. of course thats not likely to happen, gpu manufacturers just have to meet compatibility with specific apis, and so long as that is met they can design their chip however they want.

Funny I should read this right after reading a neat article on pretty much the same thing.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/03/16/farewell-to-directx/1

[Nuke]

thats the same article i just read, why the hell did you think i said good points there, pay attention!

that post was my response mostly to the article in question.

Im a pc gamer that likes wii.

i like wii too.

[Dark Hunter]

Im a pc gamer that likes wii.

I own systems from all three major companies as well as a healthy PC game collection... and an arcade cabinet.

I do not identify as a fan of any particular platform. I'm simply a gamer.