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10/22/09
says the stupid console gamer and/or idiot.
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It's not like 8 bit era and here comes suddenly crysis making us go from 8 bit to semi realistic graphics.
I like the effects especially the water one looks really nice. And usually i'm not that impressed by small graphical changes. #dirt2
10/22/09
All huge leaps. #dirt2
10/22/09
Lets face it. Its Direct X. Direct X is all about the graphics and nothing more.
And its a PC version. I mean the whole reason people get the PC version of games is to get the better graphics, higher resolutions, effects, etc, that the underpowered consoles cant compete with. (and sometimes because people like to play with keyboard/mouse and dedicated servers) #dirt2
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10/23/09
Like i said: The visual quality usually doesn't increase by huge leaps anymore. At least not in todays age and not 5 years ago not even really 10 years ago.
20 years ago is another story..
But today it's more about the small changes, it's next to impossible to throw out a complete new engine that "WOW"'s everybody. #dirt2
10/22/09
It's times like these that make me happy to be a PC Gamer along with being a Console Gamer, Pinball Gamer and Arcade Gamer.
I can't wait to test this on my ASUS ROG and SAGER systems. #dirt2
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its not a proper WRC rally game like the old ones were, i dont know if he'd be rolling in his grave over this game or not, but personally i think they should have just kept it DiRT 2 and not included his name #dirt2
10/22/09
RIP #dirt2
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@Kakkoii:
Hmm, tone really is that hard to detect on the interwebs.
I was totally kidding. I know there is no such thing as a tessellation chip, but the word was used like 50 times in the video, and my guess is less than 5% of its viewing audience even knows what tessellations are. I thought the overuse of the word was humorous, that's all. On top of that, I just posted a comment about Windows 7 in todays TAY so I felt like that statement at the end was fitting.
Sorry for any confusion. #dirt2
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You'd already have one customer :) #dirt2
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Dirt 2 uses DirectCompute with the GPU to animate the large crowd. And uses Tessellation to makes them more detailed without a big performance hit. And multi-threading used on the side to make the whole game run better on multi-core CPU's.
Same stuff goes for the water and rest of the game. Along with better and more efficient lighting effects in Shader Model 5.0 #dirt2
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ting their games at the console market, older/cheaper video cards like the 8800GT run pretty much any PC game maxed or nearly maxed. I think the new DX version is a way to make hardware manufacturers some money. #dirt2
10/22/09
DX versions are starting to just not matter. #dirt2
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DX11 is more about the coding under the hood, so GPGPU, PhysX, Cuda, Stream(if that was the name) etc.
So DX11 should be able to do everything that DX10 does, a bit more and with less of a performance hit.
And with the expected Win7 uptake compared to the 30% uptake of Vista then developers should have more incentive to use DX11 and just bypass DX10 altogether.
DX10 basically never got a chance to spread its wings as it was part of Vista. #dirt2
10/22/09
The addition of compute shaders means physics and other general compute tasks can be offloaded onto any capable hardware instead of just nVidia cards via proprietary APIs.
And general efficiency of the API's also been improved. Some things that took multiple passes can be done in one pass, and there are generic performance improvements that actually work not just on DX11 level hardware, but also Dx10 level hardware. Stuff that's very easy to implement too. #dirt2
10/22/09
From 7 to 9, there were huge leaps made that changed the way games looked completely and could be played.
From 9 to 11, the only difference is you need a 295 to make a flag go fwoosh better compared to a 9800GTX that looks arguably the same, with less fwoosh. #dirt2
10/22/09
Also, there's very little reason to make software that fully embraces DirectX 10 or 11, considering the GPU in the PS3 is basically a GeForce 7900GT and the 360's GPU is a chimera of the Radeon X800, X1800, and tech that really isn't in any consumer GPU today (like the embedded DRAM). Hence why, as Koztah said, an 8800GT will still run most any PC game just fine at present... #dirt2
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It basically means you can do Crysis at a solid 70fps on ultra high instead of barely 30.
And you can do something that would run at 5fps currently, at playable rates.
So you won't necessarily get obvious and amazing new visual techniques, but you do get playable rates for using them, especially all at once.
Eventually you do hit a wall, but not until you get full photorealism with a huge number of items on screen at 60+fps consistent. We're not there yet.
And I will grant that it'll be less of a WOW! effect going forward, because it's going to be more about making sure the user gets an experience where they go "This isn't a slideshow!".
(Also, that 9800GTX is a dx10 part, so that's not a good comparison. Compare say, the Radeon 9700, which is a first generation DX9 part, to an HD5870, which is a first generation DX11 part, and you get the difference between not being able to run Crysis at all, and having 30fps) #dirt2
10/22/09
Whether or not I take advantage of the DX11 capabilities, I should have good fun. #dirt2
10/22/09
At first i was thinking " this is too much like need for speed, i don't care about a story or making friends, silly pop music, silly remarks from your in-game friends" and stuff like that...
The i got motivated to finish off the achievements of the first one, since in my mind it was much better, but the moment i played Dirt again i realized how great was Dirt 2.
I still don't care for this juvenile vibe they put into it, but the racing, the landscapes, the details.... this is a triple A game all right, even without directx 11. Unnecessary as Fahey pointed. #dirt2
10/22/09
But as for the game itself, looks fucking amazing, kinda makes me wanna get a HD 5870 lol.
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Sorry if I sound like a dick there.
10/22/09
damn Sonata 3...quiet, beautiful...and fucking small LOL #dirt2
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What will she do if you use a damn PC anyway, dump you? #dirt2
10/22/09
DX11 works on Vista too. You can download it already (official version from MS) #dirt2
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I wrote about this in that thread about gaming addiction,so she kinda made it her job not to let me into that again.Unlike what the others are saying I do have a dick!.It's called a compromise,and shes just looking out for me.Which I don't mind. #dirt2
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the lower, 5700 series as well as the 5850...but i *WANT* the 5870 :)
i've been meaning to get a new, bigger case anyway...i've been looking at the Antec P183, but i wish it had a side window :( #dirt2
10/01/09
Sorry, I'm sure there will be some games to really take advantage of it in a while.
10/01/09
Having just one guy cover PC games by himself results in errors like the 20 people below me have already pointed out.
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2 DX 11 cards that are out on the market.
09/30/09
I love it and I think that it is a great game- especially considering that you can play through the entire game, new and old content included, for free.
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I'm probably wrong, I've been out of the game for a while now, haven't followed DX11 or DX11 cards whatsoever, but Windows 7 RC lists DX11 on my PC with my GTX 285.
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*Edit* edited to appear less douche'y
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DX11 follows the 'strict superset' approach, just like DX10.1 did with DX10: in theory, any DX11 game would run in DX10 hardware, but with some effects disabled.
One of the new features, compute shaders, actually was planned to work with older hardware, and is divided in multiple levels of features, for all hardware versions since DX9. Not sure how the devs. will handle it tough.
Last but not least, there were software-only changes too, improvements on multi-threading support, that don't deppend on what hardware you're using: as long as the game is programmed with the DX11 API, and you're running DX11 in Vista/Win7, you'll see the benefits.
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