“We have 10 times as much horsepower as an Xbox 360 or PS3…yet games don’t look ten times as good.”
Hardware firm AMD has said that cumbersome APIs like Direct X are holding back PC games from their true potential.
The manufacturer’s GPU worldwide developer relations manager Richard Huddy believes that Microsoft’s DirectX, introduced to help ensure games run on a wide variety of hardware, is hindering developers as much as it helps them.