Company of Heroes Dx10 patch today!!

[fivefeet8]

I'll try to post some screens later. Now since Fraps doesn't seem to work with screen capture in Vista64, what other free screenshot capture software works. Aldos screen capture doesn't work in Vista64 either.


NVIDIA Developer Blog

Great news! The long awaited and much anticipated DX10 patch comes out this afternoon 1PM Californian time for Company of Heroes. Developed by Relic and published by THQ this award winning game was extremely popular both with gamers and industry pundits alike. It stole a lot of work time here and was the 'most-borrowed-from-the-sample-cupboard' game of the last year. :-)

PLEASE NOTE: The DX10 patch will be available via the in-game download/update feature.

Our dev tech team led by Peter Young and Ignaciao Llamas worked hard with Shane Neville and the team at Relic to add the following DX10 effects to the game.

- Per-pixel lighting for all objects
- Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF) shadows: Multi-tap PCF shadows utilize Shader Model 4.0 sample comparison functions for softer, more realistic shadows
- Shadows for omnidirectional point lights: supports up to 4 simultaneous point lights with shadows using DX10's render-to-cubemap and Geometry Shader functionality.
- Soft particles. Particle effects smoothly blend on contact with terrain and other objects improving visual quality.
- CSAA support (Coverage Sampling Antialiasing): CSAA produces antialiased images that rival the quality of 8x or 16x MSAA, while introducing only a minimal performance hit over standard (typically 4x) MSAA.
- Short volumetric grass using DX10-instanced terrain shells
- DX10-instanced foliage and ambient objects
- DX10 alpha to coverage (transparency antialiasing)

[ShadowDancer]

Here's a DX9/DX10 comparision at gametrailers.

GameTrailers.com - Company of Heroes (PC) - Media, News, Reviews, Previews

[3x3cUt0r]

The performance hit is too high, look at Here, using the last beta drivers (158.45) helps but still unplayable on my rig, my fps went from 90 avg to 27 avg, and the min was 37 fps now is 8 fps, the refresh rate seems to be locked at 60hz if i use the DX10 path, everything works great in the good old DX9 path (high), i hope they fix at least the refresh rate issues (whoever is the responsable nvidia or relic).

[doggieiscool]

all this does is make me not want to upgrade to Vista :\

[SisterCheeba]

I don't see what all the fuss is about. A massive performance hit for a slightly better looking game? Those comparison shots didn't seem terribly inspiring really.

[3x3cUt0r]

i found a command line to fix the refresh rate problem on DX10, use -refresh XX, and the performance problem isn't the only one, there is people (including me), reporting crashes and BSOD while using the DX10 path.

[Samor]

nvidia'd better focus on compatibility in their vista's 8000whatever drivers in general, not just one game.

[firyace]

Haven't played this game yet, but the differences between dx9 and dx10 are not that exciting. Especially the ones that are on birds eye view, i see no difference whatsoever.

[Nucking Futs]

Originally Posted by firyace

Haven't played this game yet, but the differences between dx9 and dx10 are not that exciting. Especially the ones that are on birds eye view, i see no difference whatsoever.

Same here, though i'd like to see some better shots, as these look kinda crappy imo.

[3x3cUt0r]

the game looks better (not much) but the performance hit is too big, is not worth it.