TheRealMafoo said:
The Lost Planet lost a lot of FPS in DX10 on Vista. I would rather turn up other parts of the game (like resolution or AA), with DX9, and get a better overall look. The difference in Crysis is High vs Very High. There is a hack to get Crysis to run in Very High mode on DX9, and it looks the same as DX10. it makes you wonder how much MS paid them to turn it off in the first place. |
Its probably a limitation in the cards, the Geforce 8800gtx/Radeon 3870 etc are more extended direct x 9 cards. They don't run shader model 4/4.1 as efficiently as they do shader model 3.0. I think the differences with modern cards between direct x 10/9 are a lot smaller from something I read a bit ago.
Also the Direct X 10 codepath less optimised because fewer people use it and they save it for the really HEAVY effects as well.
Tease.