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[Posted by: Steve]

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Lost Planet 2 was released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 a few months ago, while the PC version is yet to be released. Although initially released on console, Capcom has spent a little extra time working on the PC version, namely to include DirectX 11 effects. Being a DX11 title that makes good use of tessellation, Nvidia were very keen to get onboard and promote the game, and already there is a stand-alone benchmark available...

It is now blatantly obvious why Nvidia is working to promote Lost Planet 2, as their latest generation graphics cards enjoy a significant performance advantage over their competition when playing the game using DirectX 11. However before we jump to any real conclusions there are a few things to be aware of.

08/17/2010

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corky

Posted on: 08/18/2010 11:28 PM

Interesting looking game. Thanks for testing so many cards.

tiger

Posted on: 08/19/2010 03:04 PM

Thank for the great review. I'm somewhat shocked to see such a performance loss going from dx9 to dx11. Personally I'm still using an dx9 XP pro system and with this results I'm seriously disencouraged to change soon to win7 and dx11. Personally I don't see that much difference in the dx11 pics.

I feel somewhat like dx11 and win7 are still a big rip off to invest heavy in pricy hardware.

Robbo

Posted on: 08/19/2010 09:42 PM

I downloaded the benchmark from GamersHell and you are right DX11 does very little to the image quality in the first test. Which is strange because the performance hit on my GeForce GTX 470 is massive

Josh

Posted on: 08/21/2010 07:59 AM

I ran this same benchmark on my setup:
CPU Intel Core i7 930 @ Stock Speed
Motherboard: EVGA X58 SLI LE
RAM 6Gb Geil Black Dragon DDR3 1600MHz (@1600MHz)
Windows 7 64 Bit Ultimate
VideoCards: EVGA Geforce GTX 470 SC & Geforce GT240 SC (For CUDA & PhysX)

When I set the GT240 as the only card for CUDA Processing in the NVIDIA Control Panel I wound up with higher FPS in DirectX 11 then you did at 1920x1200 (Was getting 58.6)

It might be worth adding in a dedicated card for CUDA processing and testing. Since this title does use Direct Compute.

Initial D

Posted on: 08/24/2010 02:29 AM

The first version was a bit of fun so I might give this a try as well when it comes out in October. Thanks for the results.

Offordef

Posted on: 08/25/2010 11:22 AM

Hi Steve,

Wondering how this scales on Multi Cores.
The original Lost planet was one of the first games that scaled well with more cores.
Maybe you could check this?
And thanks for the test, always worth checking your results.

Steve

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Posted on: 08/25/2010 01:43 PM

Thanks for the feedback guys.

@ Offordef - This is something I do want to test but I will wait till the game is released before I do it. Since this benchmark is designed to just test the GPU we are not sure how well it will test the games multi-core performance.

stevephillips79

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Posted on: 08/27/2010 06:02 AM

hi,
it's interesting game i'm still using an XP pro system and with results and lost planet was one of the first games that scaled well with more cores.thanks for sharing.

Hellx

Posted on: 09/04/2010 02:46 PM

Btw the game dnot support SLI ring its like dnot have 2nd card

ProX

Posted on: 09/04/2010 11:14 PM

@ Hellx - yes the article said SLI is not working yet which is not at all surprising. I am sure next month when it is released SLI will be working then or soon after.

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