Hi all I was just wondering as the approach of dirt 2 is here will my 5850 be any good at running it or will it struggle with the new dx11. i suppose it will probably go well, just wanted to know if those at bittech had already got their hands on it and so on.
5850? If that's not a typo, it's the new range of DX11 cards - Dirt 2 is supposed to be optimised for it so nothing to worry about If you mean 4850, that's an entirely different Q which I will leave to people who know better to answer.
no its a HD5850. i built my system back in october and it consists of core i5 750 OCd @3.6GHz MSI P55 GD65 4GB G skill ripjaw CAS9 (RED) XFX HD5850 Corsair HX750 WD caviar green 500GB 32mb cache windows 7 64 bit
its a really good card but i just wanted to see if anyone at bittech had had a go at DX11 before any of us consumers and could tell me how it performs.
I didn't think Dx11 was officially released yet? And I'm pretty sure that no games actually make use of it yet. Therefore there is no way of testing the cards performance in the applications.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_11_support Dirt 2, BattleForge, and the new Stalker (is that released yet?) are the major ones right now I believe. And, of course, the new AVP which I think drops early next year. A 5850 should make nice work of Dirt 2. Try the demo here (I got it today, pretty good! Only two tracks though )
Well I'm sure it can't be much worse than 5870 -10%. So, for DX9: 70fps minimum, 77fps average DX11: 43fps minimum, 54fps average. How bad can it be? Also, you could just overclock the 5850 a little
i downloaded the demo and it performs exactly as you say. unfortunatley i can't see an option to switch between DX11 and DX9. help anyone?
unfortunatley i can't see an option to switch between DX11 and DX9. help anyone? Why would you want to??? Isn't the whole point of the new 5series cards to run DX11 in games such as Dirt which optimise in DX11??? Switching to DX9 is explained in the main article on the front page but, please, tell me when the whole point is to use/utilise DX11 would you choose to regress to DX9?
DX9 mode is there for people without DX11 GPUs, as unsurprisingly not everyone has them yet. Or you can use it if you're running a relatively slow DX11 GPU (like the 5750) which can't produce a high enough framerate with all the extra bells and whistles of DX11.
no its not because of that its that i have no conformation that its actually using DX11. I'd like to see in black and white that i'm using DX11 when playing a game.
