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Don't laugh too hard as Nvidia announces the end of mainstream driver support for DX10 GPU's. While our 8800's seem like such a long time ago the GTX 285 on the other hand can still manage Battlefield 4 on console like settings just fine. Minimum spec's are usually good for 2 frames per second so the GTX 285 in BF5 might just fit in by then!
Quoting AnandTech:
If for some reason Battlefield 5 or a similar game did include support for DX10 (which it probably won't) they would either have to code the lower graphics settings to work within the confines of current drivers or suffer. Games like battlefield tend to take creative liberties with visual effects code requiring driver updates to work. Most of these effects are only running on the higher range of settings anyways. But given the best examples of DX10 hardware in existence, it seems time to let it go and save some development time. Lets not forget that also puts Vista behind us and most people won't cry too much
Quoting AnandTech:
If for some reason Battlefield 5 or a similar game did include support for DX10 (which it probably won't) they would either have to code the lower graphics settings to work within the confines of current drivers or suffer. Games like battlefield tend to take creative liberties with visual effects code requiring driver updates to work. Most of these effects are only running on the higher range of settings anyways. But given the best examples of DX10 hardware in existence, it seems time to let it go and save some development time. Lets not forget that also puts Vista behind us and most people won't cry too much
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