The DirectX 11-Powered Tech of DiRT 2 PC

I learned a new verb. Tessellate. I suppose it directly translates into "very pretty things".

Direct X 11 is looking pretty good.

hmm, too bad PC gaming is a pain

Some nice looking stuff there. By the way, any PC gamers waiting for this game, GET IT. Best off-road racing game I have ever played.

Looks really good.

Cloth Tessellation, NIOCE. Back on topic those are some pretty looking graphics.

That's a lot of tessellation.

Better hope next generation consoles comes with DX11 or 12 then, and better resolution rendering.

"Tessellated" The new buzzword in computer graphics.

Doesn't look that amazing.

All this tessellation is giving me a hard-on..

" hmm, too bad PC gaming is a pain "

holy crap, awesome.

When your driving fast in Dirt 2 you wont even notice the differences with Direct X9 vs Direct X11

Now I just need a dx11 compatible gpu...great. 
 
I don't think an ATI 4870 is dx11 compatible...

Am I missing something?  It looks just as good as the console versions.

" Better hope next generation consoles comes with DX11 or 12 then, and better resolution rendering. "

Some of those gfx looks great, but they still haven't figured out water. Watching the car drive through it, nothing about it looked natural, nothing like how real water would react.
 
The main problems are a lack of any splash, there is very little displacment, it settles far too quickly. It looks more like a heavy gloopy goo, not water.

"Doesn't look that amazing. "

" Some of those gfx looks great, but they still haven't figured out water. Watching the car drive through it, nothing about it looked natural, nothing like how real water would react. "

I saw this on some other sites, and I can't say I'm impressed.  The new effects seem focused on things you'd hardly notice, and I know I've seen water splash and make waves better than that in games before.
 
If they want to make it rival games such as Forza 3 or GT5P/GT5, they're going to have to up car detail greatly, more polygons, better shaders.
 
Basically it's a port of an OK looking console game with some insignificant upgrades, which I wouldn't even be able to take advantage of with my high end DX10 card!

" Now I just need a dx11 compatible gpu...great.   I don't think an ATI 4870 is dx11 compatible... "

" hmm, too bad PC gaming is a pain "

" It looks just as good as the console versions. "

"hmm, too bad PC gaming is a pain "

Awesome.

" @kevlar907 said:

" hmm, too bad PC gaming is a pain "

For the uneducated typical console gamers "

"I saw this on some other sites, and I can't say I'm impressed.  The new effects seem focused on things you'd hardly notice, and I know I've seen water splash and make waves better than that in games before.  If they want to make it rival games such as Forza 3 or GT5P/GT5, they're going to have to up car detail greatly, more polygons, better shaders.  Basically it's a port of an OK looking console game with some insignificant upgrades, which I wouldn't even be able to take advantage of with my high end DX10 card! "

PC gaming is a pain, because of headaches one will get from frustration. PC gaming is fine if you can afford it, but constantly trying to upgrade, just to keep up, really sucks. I know because I tried it, not being able to play a game because something isn't compatible, then trying to find a solution, only find out that you need to buy more shit gave me aspirin ulcers.
 
Either way, anyone notice how realistic Dirt 2 looks at night, without the shit-beige, sepia tint? I don't understand why Codemasters applied that subtle-sepia tone to their games. There are no whites, just beige; it's a shame for such a realistic looking game to look like it was rendered by some invalid, pre-teen photoshoper.

Why would they want to rival games like Forza and GT in the first place? They probably would have done it on consoles already, not wait two months for the PC version to be greatly detailed.  Also,I don't think DiRT 2 cares about the extreme details in cars as in GT or Forza, the models look great for an off road based driving game.

Great, more stuff that will be impressive for half a second in the first game that uses it before everyone uses it and the public adjusts.

" @ZeroCast said:

Why would they want to rival games like Forza and GT in the first place? They probably would have done it on consoles already, not wait two months for the PC version to be greatly detailed.  Also,I don't think DiRT 2 cares about the extreme details in cars as in GT or Forza, the models look great for an off road based driving game.

Well, as a DX11 game featuring the latest graphics techniques I would hope they wished to attain 'good graphics'.  If they wanted to they could create better quality models and environments, better than would be possible on the consoles, yet these car models aren't even equal to the better console racing game models.   Why push graphics in such insignificant ways? "

Just bought a Radeon 5870 about a week ago, all of the new ATI flagship 5XXX cards come with a Dirt 2 code. Loved the game on 360, looking forward to playing it at 60 FPS with DX11!

Why are people gettiing weirded out by the word "tesselation"? It's not even specific to CG, it just means tiling, essentially. They dynamically generate geometry and break it up into polys for smoothness. That shit is awesome.

Dude, what!? I'm pretty sure just about every professional game critic has applauded Codemaster's engine. If it wasn't for that sepia tint, that game would look scary-real; even with the tint, the game is beautiful. Not just that, but there isn't a single game on the market that can match Codemaster's car deformation. The lighting is pretty superb too, like I said I find the way that the reflections are handled to be really convincing.

One doesn't need some new advanced hardware to excel in competitive multiplayer on PC; most tone the graphics settings down to really pare down the variables just to the player's skills, just as you are wont to prefer. One does not need to upgrade every time a new title comes out, unless that person is beholden to the latest and greatest graphics or some kind of obsessive tech junkie. I think this game will look just as fine on many dx10.1 cards as it does on dx11, for which it functions as some sort of banner title showcasing what it can do without vast performance hits associated with alternate physics rendering engines.

Not the hugest step forward in tech, but like the description says, there are some damn nice effects in that trailer.
 
It's such a shame that these features are in a PC racing game though. NOTHING against DIRT2, it's just that last time I checked, the PC racing game market was one of the least marketable types of games out there.

Whats the song shazam can't seem to figure it out.

This look beauutiful!  
 
But isn't the water supposed to splash sideways? 
 
Right now it looked as if someone passed a finger through a puddle... beautiful, but... accurate?

" "Tessellated" The new buzzword in computer graphics. "

Microsoft again at the forefront of gaming software. 
 
PC dead? No way buddy!

" @eroticfishcake said:

" "Tessellated" The new buzzword in computer graphics. "

Heh, tessellation isn't new by any means. "

" This look beauutiful!   But isn't the water supposed to splash sideways?  Right now it looked as if someone passed a finger through a puddle... beautiful, but... accurate? "