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DX11 Tested Against DX9 With Dirt 2 Demo 201

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:20AM from the shadows-with-shadows dept.

MojoKid writes "The PC demo for Codemasters' upcoming DirectX 11 racing title, Dirt 2, has just hit the web and is available for download. Dirt 2 is a highly-anticipated racing sim that also happens to feature leading-edge graphic effects. In addition to a DirectX 9 code path, Dirt 2 also utilizes a number of DirectX 11 features, like hardware-tessellated dynamic water, an animated crowd and dynamic cloth effects, in addition to DirectCompute 11-accelerated high-definition ambient occlusion (HADO), full floating-point high dynamic range (HDR) lighting, and full-screen resolution post processing. Performance-wise, DX11 didn't take its toll as much as you'd expect this early on in its adoption cycle." Bit-tech also took a look at the graphical differences, arriving at this conclusion: "You'd need a seriously keen eye and brown paper envelope full of cash from one of the creators of Dirt 2 to notice any real difference between textures in the two versions of DirectX."

Comment Re:"Raises security issues"? (Score 1) 311

by j-b0y on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @10:50AM (#30283114) Attached to: US Congressman Announces Plans To Probe Wikileaks

What? Pagers were around long long before SMS even existed. They just were never in the mass-market communication space that SMSs dominate now since they were not 'peer to peer', at least not in the most common form

Comment Re:Why is it always draconian? (Score 1) 168

by j-b0y on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @04:13AM (#28687729) Attached to: EU Publishers Want a Law To Control Online News

Thank Weis and Hickman for that.

Comment Re:So? 2nd hand is normal (Score 1) 446

by j-b0y on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @06:57AM (#25718289) Attached to: Vital Parts of Games As DLC?

Because a 2nd hand game is indistinguishable from a 1st hand game? When you buy a 2nd hand car, you except that it's suffered wear and tear and therefore worth less; except in the unusual cases where is end up being worth more as a vintage car.

I think the biggest gripe from the devs is that, between piracy and the second hand market, they see lots of people playing their games, but not seeing a corresponding amount of money in revenue. That's very much their problem which we're not obligated to solve, but we might not like the solutions.

Digital distribution of games will be the way forward for them; Capps says impulse purchasing is still alive, but in these days of over-saturated media coverage of upcoming games, with 'Previews' and 'Hands-ons' and forums and user-reviews -- who is really surprised anymore?? It's surely much more convenient to click 'buy now'.

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