Metro 2033's DX11 Glory

[Vulcan21]

Dynamic tessellation on DX11 games does look very nice, especially when it's in relation to anything cloth based like flags, clothes etc and it's nice to see water behave more lifelike when it ripples properly as you enter it.
I run duel ATI HD5850 cards in my rig and sadly the only game I have at the moment the uses DX11 is Colin McCrae's Dirt 2 game. Battlefield Bad Company 2 out very soon will support DX11, so it'll be interesting to see how that pans out against the current DX10 beta.

Vulcan you mention the game DiRT2. I must admit as far as DX11 games go, DiRT2 has definitely set a benchmark in high end gaming. The likes of BC2 and other DX11 I am yet to see come anywhere close in comparing in quality and all round fantastic performance. I only have the 1 ATI HD5870 and getting 80fps with everything maxed on DiRt2.

Where video cards are concerned, I won't be purchasing another Nvidia again as ATI has just blown any of my previous experiences I may of had with Nvidida. The future may tell another story, but for the time being I'm one happy bloke.

Originally Posted by Father

I agree with this sentiment:

Nvidia Announces That It Is Announcing GF100 Details At PAX East - Voodoo Extreme

They did promise us news and the news turns out to be that news is coming.

Father an interesting Trailer here if you didn't get a chance to view it.

Nvidia GF100 Rocket Sled Trailer - Voodoo Extreme

[Drac]

Originally Posted by Leevers

Vulcan you mention the game DiRT2. I must admit as far as DX11 games go, DiRT2 has definitely set a benchmark in high end gaming.

As far as Dirt 2 goes, the game looks pretty much exactly the same in Direct X 9:

YouTube - Dirt 2 - DirectX 9 vs DirectX 11 Split Screen Benchmark

Like I said, developers are not likely to spend that much time developing for DX11 specific features when the two biggest platforms, the 360 and PS3, don't support the added features it provides. Up until about 6 months before the release of the 360 a lot of games were still built to DirectX 8 standards with a few DX9 bits tacked on for almost the same reason (like Half Life 2, NFS:MW ect) the only game that really pushed DX9 in 2005 was FEAR.

[Reoh]

Originally Posted by Father

I agree with this sentiment:

Nvidia Announces That It Is Announcing GF100 Details At PAX East - Voodoo Extreme

They did promise us news and the news turns out to be that news is coming.

Hahaha, that reminds me when sony made an announcement that they were going to make an announcement in a few weeks.

Originally Posted by Drac

As far as Dirt 2 goes, the game looks pretty much exactly the same in Direct X 9:

YouTube - Dirt 2 - DirectX 9 vs DirectX 11 Split Screen Benchmark

Like I said, developers are not likely to spend that much time developing for DX11 specific features when the two biggest platforms, the 360 and PS3, don't support the added features it provides. Up until about 6 months before the release of the 360 a lot of games were still built to DirectX 8 standards with a few DX9 bits tacked on for almost the same reason (like Half Life 2, NFS:MW ect) the only game that really pushed DX9 in 2005 was FEAR.

I wouldn't even take into account consoles in my posts as I don't use them, but I have seen DiRT2 on console, and as I have it on PC it does look a lot better than console. I read somewhere that when comparing console to PC, you'd be looking at console gfx settings set to medium as opposed to PC's high.
Regardless of DX support on consoles, as for graphics and gameplay.... this is the most detailed and realistic game I've played to date, and I still think it's a benchmark.
The likes of BC2, and other DX11 games currently out, I'm yet to see anything that can blow me away as much as this game does, and I look forward to future releases where focus and time is spent on the finer details of a game.

Forcing DiRT2 in DX9, and then playing it in DX11, noticeable difference on PC.