nvidia : the way it's meant to be p(l)ayed

[carmicael]

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Ubisoft says DirectX 10.1 as good as DirectX 10
Written by Fuad Abazovic
Friday, 31 October 2008 10:31



Why bother?

Nvidia got Vincent Greco Worldwide Production Technical Coordinator at Ubisoft to say that the advanced API feature in DirectX 10.1 is actually not that necessary and advanced.

The chap released super funny statement that goes like this: "The Ubisoftteam wanted to enhance the Anti-Aliasing through the reading of the multisampled depth Z-buffers. This feature was enabled by either using DX10.1 or using a DX10.0 extension supported by NVIDIA DirectX 10 GPU’s. Since NVIDIA supports this in their hardware, we were pleased to be able to accelerate this feature. In the case of Far Cry 2, either option will work with similar performance.”

You cannot guess that we are talking about “The way it’s meant to be played” title and that Nvidia has a huge influence in development and marketing of the game and that this guy didn’t had much choice than to say what he just said.

We wonder why Ubisoft and its Montreal team bother to implement DirectX 10.1 features when it all works well and as fast in DirectX 10 and I guess that is the answer itself. DirectX 10.1 makes some small difference but Nvidia will fight this argument as it doesn’t have DirectX 10.1 support.

[reishoto]

marketing, sir...

[Kenshiro]

The dx10.1 in assassins creed really boost the game's performance. Based on my own test 75fps for dx10.1 and 50fps for dx10(patched to v1.02). A Huge difference. Also textures and graphics are smoother. I'm using hd3870 on crossfire latest drivers and turned on vsync.

Unfortunately dx10.1 in Assassins creed is not stable. and would crash in the Jerusalem part. but they never bothered to fix the dx10.1 issue but Ubisoft rather downgrade it to dx10. Because of NVidia's threats and aggressive business marketing.

[reishoto]

i heard it doesnt really boost up fps, but rather sa light rendering. much like difference w/ dx9 n 10.

[Kenshiro]

i heard it doesnt really boost up fps, but rather sa light rendering. much like difference w/ dx9 n 10.

For ati cards dx10.1 is used to improve a lot of performance including fps and graphics quality. Smoother curve edges. That is only for Assassins creed on ATI cards.
Rage3D.com : Assassin's Creed - First DX10.1 Title? [ A blast from the past ]

This is not in general terms but only for a specific game like AC.

[carmicael]

well, in any case, klaro kaayo asa ang power sa kwara. nyahaha. the way it's meant to be payed este played diay. XD