DX10 review - Lost Planet

[MrE]

[H]Enthusiast has done a Lost planet reviews which casts some more light on DX9 vs. DX10, ..interesting read!..

excerpts:

"The fact that DirectX 10 is causing all the video cards in this evaluation to lose performance, when no major image quality enhancements are being made, is quite disappointing. DirectX 10, along with the ability to allow better shader effects, is supposed to be more efficient than DirectX 9. You would think DX10 performance would be slightly faster, but all the video cards tested here were slower in DX10 mode at the exact same settings, some more than others."

"There isn’t a major image quality difference between DX9 and DX10 modes. There are some contrast differences, and some texture differences outdoors, but otherwise everything is the same. The one major advantage this game does have is the “High” shadow option in DX10, but no video card currently is able to render it fast enough unless you sacrifice other image quality options."

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTM3MSw2LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

 

[WiseCrack]

I have played Lost Planet in DX9 and DX10 modes. If you were to ask me what the difference in visuals are between the two I wont be able to tell you.

What I have done after reading the article is play Lost Planet in DX10 mode with both shadow option in options set to high and it nearly kills my 8800GTX. I still cannot see the difference in visuals though. My framerate dropped playing 1680x1050 with the two shadow options set to high from 60FPS to 20FPS.

I'll wait until Crysis is released to see if DX10 really makes such a huge difference like M$ is trying to make us believe.

IMO DX10 is for the moment over rated ,but maybe that will change in the future.

 

[antowan]

Could be that LP doesn't make use of the capabilities properly. Many games get ported and then they don't spend time on enabling the better graphics options available. Blame the games before blaming the tech IMO. At least for now.

 

[WiseCrack]

I agree. Rather wait and see what the future holds for games that was specificaly designed for DX10 ie Crysis and Alan Wake.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Yep, doing a review on a ported XBOX game that got some form of DX10 thrown in is just trying to fuel people's anti-MS addiction.

We'll have to wait for some true DX10 games and better drivers to see what DX10 is really capabale of.

 

[Perdition]

Adding to the above we're also only on the first generation of DX10 capable cards. The DX10 landscape will probably be significantly different this time next year once the next generation of cards are released (time to sell that kidney!)

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Yeah ports are a waste of time as a review they never run as well as a non ported game, plus i seriously don't think that the DX10 features used in lost planet for PC are any good in terms of performance, efficiency, or visual goodness