DX11 after beta ends?

[tory.1364]

Will the option for DX11 remain after the beta ends this Saturday?

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

Is the beta ending?  I only see where it begins:  https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/directx11-support-is-coming-to-guild-wars-2/

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-live-fall-and-winter-2021/

[Jukhy.2431]

There is no end date yet for the dx11 beta. Saturday is the elite spec beta end date. From espec beta news post: "Please note that the beta characters will disappear on September 25 at 10:00 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-8) at the end of the event.."

[Danikat.8537]

I don't think the DX11 beta is ending yet.

 

I assume they called it a beta because they knew it wasn't completely stable and ready for release (there's been a lot of bugs as a result) but didn't have any way to find and fix those bugs without opening it up to more people than the studio and their QA testers. On that basis I suspect the beta will go on as long as they need it to. If it caused a lot of crashes and other serious problems they might disable it again until they can fix them, then run another beta. If they can fix the problems as it's going along they might keep it going and then at some point say it's stable enough for an official release.

 

Or it might be like something else (possibly the Mac client?) where they released it as a beta, got it working and seemingly forgot about removing the mentions of it being in beta.

[Strider Pj.2193]

I think the term ‘Beta’ in this case is so if and when it borks up they can say ‘it’s just a beta’ and continue that in finitum.  

Kind of like the WvW links beta…

[Maikimaik.1974]

I don't think they're planning on disabling dx11 ever again, they'll most likely continue updating it until they feel comfortable enough with not calling it "beta" anymore.

[Marikus.1875]

Yeah, disabling DX11 would be a mistake.

It's significantly improved my gameplay and FPS.

If they take this away, I will send it back.

[eyelogix.1654]

I've had some issues but nothing major compared to what others have experienced. It's a part of the beta test some tweaks here and there, fixes etc.

[medivh.4725]

8 crushes in first 2 days. They are a long way from ending beta

[mikansei.5742]

I don't think the elite spec beta event and new DX11 option that is in a beta state are connected to each other aside from having been released at the same time. Has Anet said anywhere that they're planning on removing the DX11 checkbox at some point?

[Tic Tac Toe.1482]

I don't think DX11 is going away.  They'll continue to refine and fix the bugs.  Like the 64-bit client, it never went away, it replaced the 32-bit client.

I've had a few crashes in the last few days but it's definitely smoother gameplay with DX11.

[Kalocin.5982]

I'm guessing the beta will stick around until it becomes a main release. It's probably closer to early access. Considering how well the game runs under it for a good portion of folks, they'd be nuts to remove it

 

[fatihso.7258]

DX11 is permanent, eventually DX9 will deprecate and removed so DX11 isn't going away.