Gaming Lost Planet DirectX 10 impressions

Had a go last yesterday, turned the res to the maximum 1280*1024 it seemed to have available (annoyed at no 1680*1050), turned one or two other settings slightly up (I forget which now) and ran the test, 15, 25 averages. Tried to actually play, and it booted me out turning the first corner and firing because the framerate had apparently dropped too low.

tried dropping to 1024*768 and lowering a setting or two below the defaults and it would let me play, but the framerate was still too low to really call it playable - combined with the motion blur it was pretty much impossible to hit anything that wasn't stationary, also 1024*768 looked absolutely terrible.

I wasn't all that impressed by the keys either, though I haven't tried rebinding them yet either.

 

As I said on the TR forums, once you get the graphics setting right:

Best.... Demo... Ever! (That's demo, maybe not game)

 

I've noticed it'll be available through Steam.

Shame I haven't got the hardware to run it properly though...

 

yeah, I used steam to get the demo.

 

the way aiming was implemented made it feel a little bit too 'consoley' to me. Apart from that, loved the demo - graphics are absolutely incredible, even though I'm running them a little lower than I could be to get a higher FPS.

 

Even on the lowest settings, the game still looks amazing.

 

Either the screenshots don't do it justice (which has been hinted at) or I'm going blind, cos it doesn't look that great to me :-/

 

Two major visual differences in the game are realistic draw (they fade with distance from the object) and redone smoke/particle effects and their behaviors.

 

For 88xxs buyers that dont have the money to buy Windows Vista with DirectX10

This Patch will allow you to Play in Windows XP pro only.

in DX10.

http://rapidshare.com/files/40150901/DX10XP_Patch_v1.0.1.rar