First DirectX 11 Benchmark Released

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• yes but you don't see the DX11 specific features : Shadowdane
• Thanks for the info, I want to see this on my DX9 card. : inchwide

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  PC gaming is far from dead : Jockiboy
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    And it'll never die either. : Mooedf
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      Depends how you define dead, In my book it is dead when there is no AAA primary development on the PC. We... : koder
      • At least we've got Blizzard and Stardock for now. : unacomn
• who is this "iD" : boobie
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  You... Dont.. Like. Valve's games? : TheDaFox
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    Makes pretty clear how far removed this guy is from reality. PC gaming isn't dying, he just hasn't been p... : CasbahBoy
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      This is a bit low, don't you think? Much of a Valve fan? Feeling insulted? : madspacemarinemustdie
      • NUKE PLZ. This is a bit too much in the wrong direction. : madspacemarinemustdie
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  How does Epic and id not make PC games anymore? That makes zero sense. : Wisp!
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    They make console games, then port them to the PC. : koder
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      When has id ever done that : rubicant
      • Rage primary development is on the 360. : koder
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      In the end, UT3 for pc got a lot of love, with the Titian pack and UI upgrades, Unfortunately it wasn't e... : GGAnate
      • Who would pay for upgrading a failed game? Making it free was the only way it would actually be used at a... : Tchest

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• That seems to be a form of draw distance, It's probably made to be taxing on the GPU for the benchmark. : TheDaFox
• It's overly exaggerated in this demo. I agree it looks horrible in this case. If it were more subtle, it ... : Goblin au

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  Dwarf Fortress FTW! : Feisty Cadaver
  • lol exactly : Frush81
  • Hell yes DF! I still fire up a rougelike every now and then too. One of these days I'll beat Angband wi... : Topsiderover
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  certain ATI cards have filters built into the drivers that allow you to play games in various weird color... : Finchypoo
  • wow show me a ss : Frush81
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    I'll also played games with weird color modes. I liked inverted colors so everything would be spectral b... : destinyofdeath
    • **I've NOT I'll, need an edit button. : destinyofdeath
• That's so true. I was watching this and all I could think was "I just don't care". The game I play mo... : Mr Milquetoast
• You used the flux capacitor. : Endymion_
• ADOM (www.adom.de) is one of the greatest RPGs I have ever played and it uses ascii characters. It has... : Pandilex

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• Don't forget about the bridges. The things sway about 10 feet in each direction and don't even have anyth... : Prinny God
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  It's heaven! You're supposed to have wings and shit and never touch the ground. : pillzer
  • LIKE AION SHOULD HAVE BEEN! / loves aion : supercromp
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  About those roads? Are those polygonal boulders? I mean did some dude have to model all of those, or wh... : hawke
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    Looked like actual geometry to me, but I'm sure they are procedurally generated rather than each rock bei... : rick
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      This is already posted in here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkKtY2G3FbU&hd=1 but it shows how the road... : rick
      • Yep, and with that this is a benchmark, the purpose of it is to be demanding, sure they could have made a... : TheDaFox
  • Highly doubtful, these days a lot of stuff is done with texture/light mapping. There may be some sort of ... : unholydonuts
• Hahaha, that's all I got from this video. : zombie man
• WHERE WE'RE GOING WE WON'T NEED ROADS! Boooooom! :) : pleasedpig
• ...and ingame the characters feet will sink into it. This just looks good for videos without characters w... : madspacemarinemustdie

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• I think most of the complaints are about devs that place graphics above gameplay. : Fred Garvin
• As a graphics programmer, I kinda know where they're coming from, and your analogy doesn't quite capture ... : mattleexbox
• I'm in agreement with Jobos. Obviously resources are better spent focusing on gameplay, but the big devel... : SnakeIRye
• For me it's not a question of the hardware requirements, but of the graphics being generated by all of th... : FreonTrip

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkKtY2G3FbU : VisitorQ
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  the big 3 things are hardware tessellation (instead of a bump map it can add real 3d detail to things wit... : thebigbeefsandwich
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    Didn't ATI cards do hardware tesselation several generations ago? : treefingers1
    • Yes, but it wasn't all that fully featured (the GPU in the Xbox 360 has a primitive form of tessellation)... : TheIneffableBob
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      yep, it was called Truform. it was Ati-only though which pretty much guaranteed it would fail at that tim... : thebigbeefsandwich
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        Truform was so cool to turn on in Serious Sam back in the day : melkore
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          really? i remember it sucking. ah and heres an example of it sucking http://www.lauppert.ws/images2/seri... : Turd Ferguson
          • I seriously remember this. Makes me feel old. I remember turning it on and being totally hyped for some r... : SnakeIRye
• Hello x1800xt buddy! : OmegaRed59

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  RAGE, ID game? RAGE will not be DX at all, it will be using OpenGL just like all the other games based... : skitzo_zac
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    well no carmac went dx with this one from what I remember : Frush81
    • Nope: http://www.dvhardware.net/article20966.html Here's the Cliff's notes: It's OpenGL on every platf... : crazypsycho
    • Hmmmm, It mentions that the engine (Id tech 4) was shown running under Open GL on a Mac on the wikipedia ... : skitzo_zac
    • No, DX is only being used for the xbox. : Mystery0000
    • glad im wrong then : Frush81
• guys before me are right it's OpenGL itÄ…s because Carmac is a genius and he can handle proper progra... : salceson

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• If you download the demo and run it yourself - like I did, using my DX10 card - you can see the differenc... : sinisterDei
• tessellation. : Unkei
• Ahhh okay interesting. : bolneze

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• that's so 2000. : Unkei
• Yea they overdid it a bit. : Snipergen

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• new hardware. 8800 is DX10. Nvidia's DX11 cards are not out yet, but ATI has some (the 5xxx series, if my... : Schnapple
• DirectX 11 comes with Windows 7 and, if it isn't already made available, will be coming to Windows Vista.... : TheIneffableBob

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• It is a quadruple API engine(DX9/DX10/DX11/OpenGL). Although the DX11 part is a recent addition. : Kristian Joensen