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Deus Ex 3 Will Support 3D, DX11, Acronyms

PC Gamer have the latest on all the different technical set-ups that Deus Ex: Human Revolution will support. First up, it'll support DirectX 11, which is great! It'll also support 3D, which is great if you don't have astigmatism and don't mind playing your video games looking like a D-list celebrity with a hangover. Finally, it'll support AMD Eyefinity, which you can see above, but don't be fooled! AMD Eyefinity doesn't just stop at three monitors- it actually supports up to six monitors, which is perfect for me, as I was wondering what to do with my five spare monitors and my five-foot long desk.

Click on through the jump to read what Jurjen Katsman, founder and president of Nixxes (the Dutch studio doing the PC version of DX:HR) told PC Gamer about DirectX 11 support. It will amaze you!

Alright, so it probably won't amaze you.

“We do use tessellation; this was one of the first features we started making use of with DX11. We mainly used it to improve character silhouettes, but also used it for some other objects in the world.

“In Deus Ex: Human Revolution you see characters up close a lot as you interact with them, like in dialogues. Using tessellation to improve their look really helps make the world and the characters more believable, which is important in a story-heavy game like Deus Ex: Human Revolution.”

That wasn't really worth it, was it? I'm sorry. What a shame.

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Quintin Smith: Quinns was one of the first writers to join Rock Paper Shotgun after its founding in 2007, and he stayed with the site until 2011 (though he carried on writing freelance articles well beyond that). These days, you can find him talking about tabletop board games over on Shut Up And Sit Down, or doing proper grown-up journalism with the folks at People Make Games.
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