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Performance Conclusion

There are many things we can deduce from this evaluation, but the most obvious which we can just simply come out and say is that DX10 is faster in FarCry 2 than DX9. There is absolutely no denying that fact. Windows Vista’s DX10 and gaming have finally shown what NVIDIA and AMD have been touting for all these years.

The most benefit to this performance improvement came when antialiasing was enabled, especially on the GTX 280. We experienced a very large 20% performance improvement in DX10 with AA compared to DX9 with AA. There was less of a performance improvement with the AMD Radeon HD 4870 1GB, even though it supports DX 10.1 natively. For whatever reason, it appears the specific coding to NVAPI is slightly faster on NVIDIA’s GPUs for this antialiasing performance improvement. Still, there was a real performance improvement with AMD GPUs, so definitely enable DX10.

This is the first time that we can heartily say, “Enable DX10 for the best gameplay experience!” It actually helps for a change instead of degrading performance. The next question to answer is, “Is there any real-world image quality difference while enabling DX10?” We will answer that in our next article.

ezeht wrote:daaaa who did not know that already. its common sense stuff.. oh thats right.. its not necessarily true for all games.. but. if you can afford vista tolerate it and have a killer cpu vid card and 6 to 8 gigs of memory well dx10 is supposed to be better..

now you have a competing thread to your already fc2 thread.. this could be added to the other thread..makes me no difference.. hmm.. you dx10 guys can post in this thread i and dx9 folks will post in the other thread.. ha ha

hmm with some luck maybe we will have 6 more fc2 threads to try and read and keep up with.. ha ha blue should start a fc2 thread. id guess it will get more traffic than either of these 2.. ha ha

oh wait im sorry.. maybe the point to this thread is to start up the arguments or fan boy wars about why fc2 was not coded for dx10.1 did we not read all about that before the game even came out?? ha ha nv the great big boogie man

hmm now that i think on it..maybe it would be best to have 3 sub forums with all of the same general topics.. 1 for dx9- 1 for dx10- and 1 for dx10.1- ha ha i think the dx10.1 will have less response for some reason..im not sure why.ha ha

come on blue.. start a fc2 thread.. i do not want to post in these other 2 fc2 threads any more. ha ha ha ha

ooppss im sorry i forgot we need 4 sud forums.. soon we will have dx11.. and is why nv had the good sense to skip dx10.1 all together. they did not invest time and money in dx10.1 because they could see down the road and dx11 is coming.. its sad ati folks lack in such common sense i guess??

have fun see ya

ezeht wrote:you are posting competing threads to your own threads not me..do as you feel best..its no big whip for me. im only going to post in the threads i care too as with every1 else

and ha ha its even more comical in your own words and all the extra money spent etc..that of all the games on earth. you vista dx10 guys have only 1 game that all your hardware makes any differences in is farcry2. ha ha im laughing so hard im about to piss my self.. gees i feel extra smart i did not waste my time and money on vista and new hardware