worth a DX11 card?

[Flanker35M]

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I read all reviews with a grain of salt But interesting to see that the 2Gb ATI did get a boost. With the upcoming refresh with fixed tesselation performance I bet ATI will be at the same ballpark again. But I think that review really summed it up at the end: hard to choose between the 2, boils down to if you use PhysX/CUDA or not which one to get. Anyways, good to see we have options

[Flyby]

rgrt Flanker35M. a grain of salt goes a long way.
Flyby out

[JG27CaptStubing]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

I read all reviews with a grain of salt But interesting to see that the 2Gb ATI did get a boost. With the upcoming refresh with fixed tesselation performance I bet ATI will be at the same ballpark again. But I think that review really summed it up at the end: hard to choose between the 2, boils down to if you use PhysX/CUDA or not which one to get. Anyways, good to see we have options

There are folks out there that have PhysX running with ATI cards along with an Nvidia in the same machine.

PhysX isn't really that important until we start to see some titles beyond Batman that actually take use of it beyond flying paper and flags.

It might be great for a combat flight sim for explosions and modeling smaller portions of the sim. Right now it's a bit gimicy for me...

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by JG27CaptStubing

There are folks out there that have PhysX running with ATI cards along with an Nvidia in the same machine.

PhysX isn't really that important until we start to see some titles beyond Batman that actually take use of it beyond flying paper and flags.

It might be great for a combat flight sim for explosions and modeling smaller portions of the sim. Right now it's a bit gimicy for me...

Perhaps DX25 will incorporate some form of PhysX in the future.
Flyby out

[Flanker35M]

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PhysX is just a gimmick atm for me as well as I rarely play any first person shooters or role playing games etc. EVE Online might get some PhysX/CUDA in the future as walking in stations is implemented, but again those are just rumours as of yet.

Anyways interesting to see how this evolves as AMD also got their 6-core CPU's out and they seem to offer quite a bit of performance for the bucks invested Will upgrade from 790FX to 890FX shortly, when those new mobos land here

[JG27CaptStubing]

For those that think tessellation is a waste of time. Some have metioned what would we use it for in a combat flight sim. Well it might not be that obvious but take a look around in the current versions of IL2 cockpits. I bet the cockpit framing would look a hell of a lot better if some amount of Tessellation were used via the DX11 feature.

Just my 2 pennies.

[Flyby]

Hey Cap,
I'd want as many options turned on as my GPU could support, provided I didn't take a major hit (<25-30fps). It would be interesting to see how Oleg's sim will be presented, and whether or not any current (by the time of release) GPU could ever display it in all it's glory.
It's amazing at this stage of development that we still have no clue as to what GPU spec will be required. I wonder how people can wait until release to upgrade. But then again, if you're into flight sims, only Rise of Flight seems to be worthy to challenge an up-to-date system, and only in 32bit at that. Oleg's baby is long overdue, but how advanced can it be compared to current technology? The whole world wonders.
Flyby out

[Flanker35M]

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Will be interesting to see what features there will be in SoW Wishing they would be those that actually are of importance, not just gimmicks and FPS eaters. Funnily enough most of games, if not all I play are DirectX 9 or older atm. Oldest of them being Knights Of The Old Republic II: The Sith Lords..I think only DX 11 titles I have are AvP and Metro 2033..