Crysis: DX9 vs. DX10 ; Did DX10 deliver on its promises?

Matthew from Enthusiast writes:

"Crysis, 5 months later. No excuses about immature drivers or API issues. We look at how Crysis DX9 compares to Crysis DX10 and what GPU is best for it. We analyze real gameplay and IQ. Did DX10 deliver on its promises? Should we stick with it?"

[decapitator]

Vista has not a complete success so far so....

[marinelife9]

Microsoft always seems to have these grand ideas on doing new things that they get lazy about and poorly implement.

[TriggerHappy]

Short answer: No

Long answer: Hell nah.

[Fishy Fingers]

Crysis, no, but dx10 as a whole, yes. DirectX 10 is still in its infancy and will take time to become fully utilized, like dx9 did. Anyone who knows the inner works of a GPU or DirectX knows that "technically" dx10 offers a lot more promises and should come good over time.

Dx10 is not the problem. The problem is the OS needed to run it which cripples your PC's gaming performance by around 20%. Yes, I know someone managed to get "some" Dx10 features to work on XP but this will not be the case as the software progress'
Even if complete Dx10 compatibility was possible on XP, MS will not allow it, they need at least one thing that XP cant just to encourage people to "upgrade"

[decapitator]

You nailed it man. OS is the course of all of this and until Microsoft ports DX10 to vista or just make sure that DX10 is well integrated into Windows 7, things might be good.

[potenquatro]

yep.

[Varsarus]

No, OpenGL kicks the crap out of it. hahahahahahaha.

[RiseOfMonster]

API fanboys--really?

[jkhan]

When was the last time Microsoft delivered on its promises?

[Daz]

You could say taht about alot of companys not just 1 :0

[Silellak]

Ah, but see, this is N4G, where apparently the only evil corporation is Microsoft and the rest of them are looking out for our best interests.

[potenquatro]

good question.i say in my expirience,they always deliver on their promises.but they deliver them in a sinister monopolistic way.not always the way we want lol.

[Varsarus]

hmm, if you think of the Khronos Group, they are supporting OpenGL and there are many companies that are part of it, now looking at that just seems that Microsoft are in a bit of a mess in their DirectX division and not looking too good for their xbox division either.

http://www.khronos.org/memb...

[LiquifiedArt]

I refuse to buy there products. I'm just not ok with there "control" mentality. Digital Distrubution etc.. (aka big brother)

[potenquatro]

i hear you.and ms hears you....they can hear all of us.

[Charlie2688]

In my experience with Crysis in both DX9 and DX10:

DX10 in Crysis is probably one of the few games were the extra DX10 effects can be easily noticed apart from the DX9 version from the extra layer of sharpnes in certain textures to the super realistic blur effects that are ultra predominant when you run super fast or there is a explosion but in my experience sometimes it makes the character look as he was drunk or tripping on acid XD the only con of DX10 is the performance hit while both patches and driver update have helped reach playable frame rates switching from DX10 to DX9 give me in my case around 7 extra frames per second

DX9 this one lacks a good amount of the subtle and not so subtle effects and sharpnes the DX10 version had but if you have never played the DX10 version you wont notice anything so its not like the game is missing effects from the DX10 version to the DX9 version, in my particular case switching from DX10 to DX9 apart from giving me the extra 7fps it almost completely eliminated any hiccups the game game in the most demanding areas and made the game in the normals areas go smooth as butter

conclusion: DX10 will give you some subtle and not so subtle effect that enrich the experience and make it more realistic but in exchange it will take a performance hit that depending on you rig it might be small or bigger (patches are helping this so dont worry) but if you are still DX9 only you shouldn't worry since the game is still espectacular with out those extra DX10 effects (you can have some of those effect at a somewhat similar presentation with some heavy tweaking on the DX9 version but dont expect the exact same effects and results as the DX10 version) and depending in your rig you are most luckily to have a smoother frame rate

[Tyrael]

forget Direct X, gimme a video card that can handle AA and very high settings