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Given our ability to fit out PCs with vastly superior hardware, it pays off when playing Dragon Age II. Right off the bat BioWare released a free high-resolution texture pack download designed exclusively for the PC version. Just as important, the game exclusively supports DirectX 11 on the PC providing cutting edge rendering features such as tessellation, additional dynamic lighting, depth of field and ambient occlusion (SSAO). When compared to DX9 we can confirm that Dragon Age II looks considerably better using the more advanced renderer.
With this in mind, we'll solely focus on DirectX 11 performance using over a dozen graphics cards capable of rendering Dragon Age II on all its visual glory. As usual we'll also be looking at CPU performance to see what kind of processor gamers are going to require to take full advantage of Dragon Age II.
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Why are the games coming out feel the need to skip dx10 and 10.1 even though the majority of cards out there support these technologies? These dx11 cards aren't even that great at dx11 anyway. You either get the old dx9 or the new dx11, so they basically skip 5 years of directx tech. Last time I checked my HD4870 runs anything I can throw at it and stomps the 5770 so why should I upgrade again?
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For all those Ati users experince fps problem in DA2!!!!
i was messing around with my in game settings, as well as ati ccc settings!!!
and i managed to play the game flawlessly at very high settings 8xaa + dx11+ blur+ssao!!!!
download the latest ati 11.4 preview drivers...simply make sure you dont have the f#$%$% morphological filtering ticked!!! i listened to ati's lies about no performance hit when enabling morphological AA....and i got for it!!!! i have everythng in ati ccc maxed out 32xaa+64xtesselation
+vsync+ anisotropic 16x!!! i never fell under 60 fps in game!!!
and imagine i dont even i have hd 6xxxx i use 2x 5870 1gddr5 in crossfirex mode!!!!
enjoy!!!!
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Please refresh the test with new drivers forceware 270.51
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StaffSteve said:
Please refresh the test with new drivers forceware 270.51As far as I can tell those drivers had no impact on performance. I have re-tested all cards using this driver as we will be adding DA2 to our graphics card testing lineup soon.
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I would like this guide to be updated with Nvidia's latest GPU GTX 590.
I don't know which should I choose, Nvidia's or AMD's latest Processor.
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StaffSteve said:I would like this guide to be updated with Nvidia's latest GPU GTX 590.
I don't know which should I choose, Nvidia's or AMD's latest Processor.
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