Are Dx9 options going to be removed in 3.0?

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Bristoling wrote:

Shadows on drastically reduce my performance, and you cannot turn them off in Dx11. It will be a shame if I have to give up on this great game because devs don't want to leave more options to players...

Highly unlikely. If GGG removed the DX9 clients at this point, they'd effectively prevent anyone using Linux or Mac from playing. Also, anyone using a version of Windows older than 8.1 would be limited by the DX11.1 features missing in those clients.

The only comment I could find was in 2.4.2 Patch Notes where it's stated:

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There are now two Path of Exile game clients. The original DirectX 9 version has been substantially improved. We have also introduced an experimental 64-bit DirectX 11 version which you can now use. This version will become the default for systems that support it at 2.5.0's release.

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Kellog wrote:

Highly unlikely. If GGG removed the DX9 clients at this point, they'd effectively prevent anyone using Linux or Mac from playing. Also, anyone using a version of Windows older than 8.1 would be limited by the DX11.1 features missing in those clients.

Indeed. It's also worth noting that Chris mentioned he'd be interested in releasing to Linux, but hasn't bothered doing so yet (mostly because people running Linux install and tweak their own Windows-based games, so there's little need to create an installer for Linux). So I doubt he wants to dump that unofficial support of Linux.

I'm glad to hear that General consensus is that dx9 stays,still would love some more official info.
So far I've only heard rumours in other threads on the forum but to me it's still scary. I won't be able to afford an upgrade of my laptop till next year.

At no point has GGG ever mentioned or hinted at removing dx9 support, and i'm pretty sure Chris has said that they won't remove it because they can tell that there are plenty of people playing who are unable to run the dx11 version or the 64 bit client (some people still play with xp and hardware from that time period)

I don't know where people got the idea that they would.

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lagwin1980 wrote:

At no point has GGG ever mentioned or hinted at removing dx9 support, and i'm pretty sure Chris has said that they won't remove it because they can tell that there are plenty of people playing who are unable to run the dx11 version or the 64 bit client (some people still play with xp and hardware from that time period)

I don't know where people got the idea that they would.

The DX11 client is 64bit bit. The DX9 clients are 32bit.