The DirectX 11-Powered Tech of DiRT 2 PC

Fancy crowds and water effects don't mean shit if the cars don't drive well.

What band is playing in that trailer?

Maybe one day I will finally get a new computer and with one of these cutting edge graphics cards.

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

" Ummm...why does the water not splash as all...it's too perfect. "

" Ummm...why does the water not splash as all...it's too perfect. "

Ummm...why does the water not splash as all...it's too perfect.

Impressive. But what about framerates? Looking good but not getting a stable framerate is really shit.

" @klownboots said:

" @Hamst3r said:

" @kevlar907 said:

" hmm, too bad PC gaming is a pain "

To each their own. I find PC gaming incredibly simple and enjoyable. If you do it right there's no muss and no fuss. :) "

Right, but the fact that you have to "do it right" is a pain in itself :P "

That's the thing though, it's so easy to do it right. It actually takes way more effort to do it wrong. If you just be a little attentive with what you're doing, make sure you buy good stuff and get the updates, the payoff I find is very rewarding. You really get to appreciate your games at their absolute best. That's all. Again, to each their own. :) "

it does look amazing
thx pc

" @Hamst3r said:

" @kevlar907 said:

" hmm, too bad PC gaming is a pain "

To each their own. I find PC gaming incredibly simple and enjoyable. If you do it right there's no muss and no fuss. :) "

Right, but the fact that you have to "do it right" is a pain in itself :P "

" @kevlar907 said:

" hmm, too bad PC gaming is a pain "

To each their own. I find PC gaming incredibly simple and enjoyable. If you do it right there's no muss and no fuss. :) "

" 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.   "

• Hardware Tessellation is something you have since the first AGP-graphics cards. Messiah was to my knowledge the first game that shipped offering this feature to gamers. (I could be wrong).
  

Very impressive, but didn't DX10 just come out?

That flag simply does not look real to me. It's just too bumpy - like the excessive normal mapping on Unreal Engine Faces, there's something about its faux-random surface that is all too predictable and man-made.

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Tesselated = Higher Polygon count.  Thats all I see.
 
Thats nothing groundbreaking, its just denser game geometry with the "cloth" or "water" modifiers...the denser the geometry the more fluid it becomes (flag shows you that perfectly, low poly then a high poly model.)

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I can't beleive all the fanboys with negative comments. If a video of this sort with any other kind of system was posted nobody would be this defensive/negative towards it.

the water effect was AWESOME. This is actually one or maybe even two steps closer to the promised land of hyperrealism in video games. :)

" And what is with the water not splashing... "

DirectX11 is not a major leap forward like DirectX 10 (or previously 6, 7 and 9) have been, as all of you in this thread already know. 11 is a nice upgrade for 10 on the rendering side. Sound, etc ... no major changes as far as I see.
 
And here a summary of questions people might have, who are not familiar with DirectX (old Dudes, look away;)

• You need a DirectX 11 videocard for your PC to run DirectX 11 effects on the hardware. DirectX 10 or 10.1 chips won't do the trick.
  
• DirectX 11 is not supported by your XBOX360 - neither by a PS3 or Wii or your TV (seriously, don't laugh. I get those questions)
• You need Windows Vista or Windows 7 (not backwards compatible with XP or older OS versions!)
  
• You don't really need it. There are some nice cinematic effects as you see, but everybody can live without them and many new games will in fact be without them. The multi-threading features are supported already - yet not that many games are really using multi-threading to it's full advantage (because it's 1. hard as hell to programm and 2. limited by videogame design issues in general).
  
• Hardware Tessellation is something you have since the first AGP-graphics cards. Messiah was to my knowledge the first game that shipped offering this feature to gamers. (I could be wrong).
  

Tesselated = Higher Polygon count.  Thats all I see.
 
Thats nothing groundbreaking, its just denser game geometry with the "cloth" or "water" modifiers...the denser the geometry the more fluid it becomes (flag shows you that perfectly, low poly then a high poly model.)

Im still trying to work out if this is a game made to look real, or if they just took real footage to entice us....looks bloody brilliant

" @Bjorn said:

"Personally I just want those kinds of things in the next TES game! "

I was jus thinking the exact same thing haha! "

I hear it's got tessellation

"Personally I just want those kinds of things in the next TES game! "

Not enough changes to make me buy it again on a PC...got like half way on 360

Lookin' great!

Oh it really does have Hardware Instanced Tessellated Crowd! Well then shit, sold!

MAN_FLANNEL: I don't know what hes talking about, but current consoles are piss poor when it comes to pixelation. Jagged edges all over the place, looks really unattractive.
 
This is clearly a early dx11 irritation. Most of it is just wasted on flags and water effects that can be done just as nice on dx10. All I can say is that driving games aren't really where you get the most out of these effects. Just imagine those cloth effects in a adventure games ore shooters. Personally I just want those kinds of things in the next TES game!

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

" @dezvous said:

" @eroticfishcake said:

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

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

Is that so? Huh. Guess I'm too old to be "hip" anymore. "

hopefully when the (nex) nex gen consoles come out they have dx 11 or later in them.

Apparently in DirectX 11 tech, water = jello.

" 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? "

" @eroticfishcake said:

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

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

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

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