GEARS pc performance article

balls said:
Yay finally. The vista performance for the gtx looks terrible in vista;s Also am I the only one not able to see a image quality difference between dx 9 /10 in that?
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Seems to be a recurring theme with dx9 and 10 looking identical, now to wait on someone coming into the thread to spout the "omg dx10 is for better performance not more eye candy" rhetoric. :D
 
HangTime said:
Guys, remember this is an article from [H].
As such they are doing their usual dumbass oranges-to-apples comparisons.

The reason the GTX performance looks terrible in Vista, is because that benchmark was run with 4xAA, whereas all the others had no AA. Likewise the 2900XT numbers may look OK in DX10, until you remember that they've decided to run it at lower resolution than all the other cards.

I stopped reading HardOCP around 4 years ago or so when they introduced this crazy benchmarking philosophy, not to mention rejecting standardised timedemos in favour of random FRAPS recordings.
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Standardised timedemos can have optomisations put in place in the drivers by nvidia and ati. Remember nvidia got caught cheating at 3d mark a while back? Thats one of the reasons they stick to actual gameplay.
 
PinkFloyd said:
Its Unreal Engine 3. It was designed originally on pc and as we saw in Bioshock and in UT3 it runs damn well :)

I never worried for a second that it would run anything other than brilliantly.
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Considering rainbow six vegas ran like a crippled tortoise i doubt it. :)
 
Raikiri said:
While this may well be true, if I still get the performance hit of running 16xAA then it is quite possible to play UT3 on an 8800GT with 16xAA as I have done so (even if it hasn't made a visible difference).

All at the same scene -

No AA, solid 62fps (Vsync)
4xAA, 54fps
16xAA, 43fps

So ner :p



Did you actually read the reviews? It beats the 640mb in everything as far as I can see (apart from Ep 2 at low res, beats it at higher resolutions), with or without AA at high and low resolutions.

So, you own a GTS 640 or the GTX?
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What res, 640x480? :eek:
 
You sure its even working properly? last i read in the ut3 demo with aa on somethings were getting aa and some weren't. Ive not tried it myself. :confused:
 
KNiVES said:
When Gears of War was seen on OCuK members' 360s before its EU release, posters had to explain where they got it from, or face suspension.
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That kind of thing happens all the time in the consoles forum yet nothing ever seems to be done about it, you see people playing whatever new game that came out in america one day beforehand with no questions asked. They may not be posting pics of it but if their little xbox sig with games theyre playing shows theyre playing halo 3 6 hours after its US release date its obvious where it came from.

Also amazes me how many people just happen to have access to preview copies or review copies, seems when a new games about to hit practically everyone turns into a game reviewer and just happen to have access to all this.
 
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