Just because a game has all the DX 11 bells and whistles doesn't mean that a DX 9 game can look just as good. Look at Witcher 2, that game looks just as good as most DX 11 games.
It's actually funny.
No tessellation and looks as good or better than Crysis 2, the tessellated to all hell turd.
Just because a game has all the DX 11 bells and whistles doesn't mean that a DX 9 game can look just as good. Look at Witcher 2, that game looks just as good as most DX 11 games.
It's actually funny.
No tessellation and looks as good or better than Crysis 2, the tessellated to all hell turd.
I agree DX9 can look good. But I want tessellation. This is why I buy DX11 hardware and this over-hyped built exclusively for DX11 (no DX9) title.
Some say yes, some say little or no, some say no. Dice confirms it. But testing reveals no performance drop on a Cypress GPU which is highly unlikely if its doing anything at all. Who is right? How can something as obvious and beneficial as tessellation be so elusive?
Since you took those screenshots, go and retake them again at terrain medium (max for dx10 hardware) and high/ultra (only enabled on dx11).
I honestly have never bothered to look for it (differences) since the terrain looks great to me, even at the distance.
Tssellation is for distance shots, when you're in a plane, yes, tesselation is used extensively for mountains/hills. It's a very simple feature though, and was only made a big deal when nVidia had the lead on 5870s. Once the 6xxx series came about nobody cared.
I don't have the skills to hover perfectly still and take comparison shots. So just took these and see of you guys can spot the marvelous terrain tessellation.
All shots CCC Tessellation set at AMD optimized
Terrain Medium
Terrain Ultra
Terrain Medium
Terrain Ultra
That is false...Tssellation is for distance shots, when you're in a plane, yes, tesselation is used extensively for mountains/hills. It's a very simple feature though, and was only made a big deal when nVidia had the lead on 5870s. Once the 6xxx series came about nobody cared.
I don't have the skills to hover perfectly still and take comparison shots. So just took these and see of you guys can spot the marvelous terrain tessellation.
All shots CCC Tessellation set at AMD optimized
Terrain Medium
Terrain Ultra
Terrain Medium
Terrain Ultra
I have to lol now.
You lock the tesselation at what..8x?
And think that if you lock tesselation (AMD "optimized") that altering I.Q. setting will override the driver lock?
I already stated/asked this once in this here thread, but apparently I got ignored...
Can ATI driver edits force any difference to the visuals? This is a Deferred Render game, which means everything is already packaged together before the driver interfaces with the cards and push the code to them.
I know you cannot set AA in drivers and see any visual difference in the game.. can you force other things through though? I'm having a hard time believing you can turn Tessellation on and off or control it at all through the driver, and actually see a difference in this particular game (or any game using Frostbite 2).
I already stated/asked this once in this here thread, but apparently I got ignored...
Can ATI driver edits force any difference to the visuals? This is a Deferred Render game, which means everything is already packaged together before the driver interfaces with the cards and push the code to them.
I know you cannot set AA in drivers and see any visual difference in the game.. can you force other things through though? I'm having a hard time believing you can turn Tessellation on and off or control it at all through the driver, and actually see a difference in this particular game (or any game using Frostbite 2).
I have to lol now.
You lock the tesselation at what..8x?
And think that if you lock tesselation (AMD "optimized") that altering I.Q. setting will override the driver lock?
Where does it say that tessellation was locked at 8X? And show me a source that says AMD optimized means overriding the tessellation in this AMD Evolved game. Then even if AMD optimized is forcing a certain tessellation factor, you know what? My fps didn't budge a bit. The lowest 2X factor dropped my fps like a stone in Heaven 2.5, Crysis 2 and 3Dmark11. Even with Fermi you are not getting away with any appreciable amount of tessellation without a slight performance drop and not to mention Cypress which is far worse in tessellation performance.
Ok, you tell me what that setting does then?
Feel free to use google.
I stand corrected. Thank you, I figured someone knew the truth if I was off.