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by Alice O'Connor, Oct 22, 2009 7:55am PDTA pair of new DiRT 2 trailers demonstrate the fancy DirectX 11 graphical wizadry which reportedly caused the PC version of Codemasters' racer to be delayed several months.
First up is a tech-focused look at the DirectX 11-enabled features which include "Cloth Tessellation, Hardware Instanced Tessellated Crowd, Tessellated Water with Dynamic Displacement Mapping, Enhanced Lighting and Post Processing."
DirectX 11 arrives today with the release of Windows 7, also due to hit Windows Vista in an update later this month. AMD/ATI has already released the first DirectX 11-capable video cards while Nvidia's offerings are expected to arrive in December.
DiRT 2's North American release date has now been confirmed to be December 1.
Next we have a general-purpose PC trailer, still glistening with all the technological Direct X 11 bells and whistles but more focused on showing gameplay.
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does PS3 run on DX9, 10, 11? or is it different API altogether? and if PS3 does handle DX in GPU, will it be upgradeable?
all these questions, I am lost, and wondering if I should splurge on the ATI5870, since I do love the odd great PC game, or should I remain casual on PC, and just enjoy my PS3 for what it can already do?
decisions decisions, wife and decisions.
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I believe the Xbox 360 GPU is about as powerful as a radeon 2900 on PC (can't even remember what nvidia gizmo playstation has), but the 2900 has DX10 where xbox and playstation only have DX9. So yeah, consoles are less advanced than a 3 generations old pc.
All this stuff is still useless if you're not going to use it though. And I for one am not going to buy a new gpu just to play a game I already have on a different platform.
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