Lost Planet Performance and DX10

Capcom’s latest title, Lost Planet, was hyped all the way up until it was finally launched, both on the Xbox 360 and PC. PC gamers had a greater reason to be excited though, since the game officially brought a DX10 title that will put their 8-series and X2-series cards to good use. Well as Brent at Hard|OCP found out, running the game in DX10 mode is the last thing that should be on your mind. Sadly, I am not so confident in the DX9 mode either, but that’s mainly due to the mind dulling gameplay I found the game to have.

On the performance side it seems all video cards offer great gameplay in DX9 mode. Though, this game is very graphically intense and currently does require a lot of GPU muscle even in that mode. The GeForce 8800 Ultra was playable at 1600×1200 4xAA/16xAF with motion blur on “low” and shadows at “medium.” This certainly is not as high as the game can go; motion blur can be turned to “high” and so can shadows in DX10 mode. Even the mighty 8800 Ultra is showing signs of struggle with this new game.

Source: Hard|OCP