greenmedic88 said:
I found out it's the DX10 flame effects that killed the frame rate on Ati cards in section 3 of the benchmark, particularly with AA enabled. DX10, 1920x1080, high = 83.7 fps (64.9-103.8) DX9, 1920x1080, high = 81 fps (74.1 - 88.3) DX10, 1920x1080, high, 2xAA = 61.7 fps (35.1-95.7) DX9, 1920x1080, high, 2xAA = 81.3 fps (75.3 - 88.4) There was no significant frame rate drop on the Nvidia card in DX10 mode. The lame thing about DX10 is that I wasn't even able to tell the difference/improvement. Unless I saw them side by side or knew specifically what to look for, I wouldn't have a clue which version I was running. If I wanted to run the game as smoothly as possible, DX10 would probably be the first thing I'd drop on a lower end system. |
Are you saying that DX9 runs more smoothly? If that's the case, then my slightly older alienware laptop could probably run this game, even though it's single core.
