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DirectX 10 Games vs. Contemporary Graphics Accelerators (page 4)

Category: Video

by Anton Shilov , Alexey Stepin

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

Lost Planet

Lost Planet was released for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 half a year ago and did not use the DirectX 10 API. However, the developer of this game - Capcom - and its publisher – Microsoft - decided to create a PC version of the game using DirectX 10.

Judging by users’ reports, the DirectX 9 version of Lost Planet is exactly alike to the DirectX 10 version visually and does not really boast high-quality graphics. It is rather an ordinary sci-fi 3D shooter with third-person view, not a breakthrough of any kind.

You should be aware that this test application was created with Nvidia’s support and some ATI Catalyst drivers are not fully compatible with Lost Planet. AMD has issued a press release saying that they were not given the opportunity to optimize drivers for this game and blaming the developer for the benchmark that could not show the true worth of the Radeon HD 2000 series.

Note also that Lost Planet does not allow you to play if the frame rate is lower than 25fps. From the gamer’s point of view, there is no difference between 24fps and 14fps because the game will shut down in either case.