worth a DX11 card?

[Flyby]

Oh, DX11 it is. I'm prepared to wait at least until Nvidia springs it's new GTX-470 equivalent on the GF104 architecture (like on the GTX 460). That should not be too long a wait. SoW should be out before July. We'll see. But there are other sims I expect to be flying before SoW hit's the shelves, so I guess I'll have to pay my money and take my chances.
Flyby out

[MikkOwl]

Been thinking of this also. My computer was very high end when forged at mount Doom in late 2006. Later upgraded with a medium range graphics card made of cryptonite in 2008. It will not be able to deal with the demands SoW will put on it.

It is possible that DX11 cards will be outright faster due to various optimizations. Also possible that tesselation might make a big difference in visual quality inside the cockpit (I doubt that though). More likely there will be only small differences between DX10 and 11. In this respect, the best card should be that which runs it the fastest yet costs the least.

To figure out what card it should be I will probably wait until some months after release of SoW to collect more information about how things perform (and letting prices drop further).

[Flanker35M]

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I am currently using the 480GTX. Tessellation in AvP is on the creature and surfaces, but frankly I do not have time to watch at them when the hordes of aliens and predators are engaging In Metro it has some effect, but again noticing tessellation is IMO just a gimmick. Has too much impact to FPS. In SoW tessellation..up to Oleg, but could live without it.

I thought...

Tesselation was not to make better graphic quality but to improve performance and fps?

When getting away of an object the details decrease.

Or am I wrong?


Hecke

[KaHzModAn]

Originally Posted by Hecke

I thought...

Tesselation was not to make better graphic quality but to improve performance and fps?

When getting away of an object the details decrease.

Or am I wrong?


Hecke

you are right but still it has an impact when used on a lot of objects, try it out by yoursef with Unigine Heaven ! (if you have a Dx11 card)

this is what it looks like in Unigine, here im using max tesselation settings, i loose about 15fps ! (but "only" 5 using moderate settings) with a single 5770
WITHOUT tesselation :

and WITH it :

[Flyby]

Good to know, Flanker. I seem to recall something (somewhere) about the FPS hit, and about how effect is barely noticed in a busy game.
KaHzModAn, looking at the images it appears that the dragon is enhanced, which is reflected in the showdow, and the smoke from the chimneys is a bit different, but the stones the dragon is perched on do not change at all.
Also, MikkOwl, DX11 does not mean a card will be faster. There are quite a few low-budget cards out there that support DX11, that will have trouble with some DX11 titles unless certain features are turned down or have trouble with higher resolutions. But there's a DX11 card out there for almost every budget these days. So it's a good time (think Crossfire or SLi)
Flyby out

[KaHzModAn]

yeah, those stone are the only thing not enhanced,
for the smoke i think its just due to the fact i took the screen a few seconds later...

but just look at the roofs, the stairs, the stones on the ground, the windows, angles from the houses... for having tried it in "real" on my PC I can tell you the difference is huge !

But anyway I don't think its gonna be used in BOB so...