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Articles: Video

DirectX 10 Games vs. Contemporary Graphics Accelerators (page 3)

Category: Video

by Anton Shilov , Alexey Stepin

[ 08/23/2007 | 11:03 AM ]

Company of Heroes

Released a year ago, Company of Heroes is popular among real-time strategists and is a heavy load even for most advanced graphics cards. The developer has made the graphics card’s job even harder by adding a few DirectX 10 effects, particularly:

Improved lighting and shadowing model
Soft shadows
More realistic vegetation
Other improvements

Alas, this is rather a formal implementation of DirectX 10 based innovations. There is almost no visual difference between the DirectX 9 and 10 versions of the game, as you can see on the screenshots: