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Dirt 2 - DX11
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Dirt 2 was released in September 2009 and provides a sequel to the original Colin McRae: Dirt racing game. Codemasters delayed the PC version of Dirt 2 so that they could enhance their Ego engine with DirectX 11 effects. The engine displays certain bleeding-edge rendering technologies like hardware-driven tessellation, which is used for a more detailed audience, tessellated clot as well as a more realistic water that has lifelike ripples, waves and splash effects. DX11 also affords the game more impressive post-rendering motion blur, filtered soft shadows and lighting effects. Dirt 2 is also a solid benchmark for multi-core processors since DX11 is designed to take advantage of multi-threaded system architectures. |
Dirt 2 testing confirmed the results from our Bad Company 2 scores. The overclocked GTX 480 is slightly faster than the stock 480 and HD 5870, but falls behind the HD 5970 by a wide margin. In this case, it was 18% slower than the top card.
