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Battleforge works faster with DX 11

by on28 September 2009

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One down three to go

Battleforge can now be called the first DirectX 11 game, as thanks to the patch that guys from Phenomic has released and the DirectX-SDK dating from August, this game runs faster on DirectX 11.

According to the graph over at Pclab.pl the DirectX 11 patch was enough for the HD 5870 to be faster than Radeon HD 4870 X2 at 1920x1200 with 4xAA and 16xAF. The game doesn't bring any eye-candy and you can't exactly call it a full DirectX 11 game, but at least the patch brings some gain for the HD 5800 series, as it does indeed give few extra frames per second.

This is only the first of four games that AMD is waiting for in order to show the full potential of DirectX 11. However, Dirt 2, Alien vs. Predator and the new STALKER: Call of Pripyat game are sort of delayed as some will come by the end of this year while the rest should be out at the beginning of 2010.

You can find the Battleforge patch details here, the DirectX-SDK can be found here, while the Pclab.pl graph can be found here.

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Last modified on 29 September 2009
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