YES, Far Cry 2 is DirectX 10.1

Ha, lets see what will all nVidia fanboys now tell when they are against an ATI optimized game

I am eagerly awaiting tuesday

does it only count for 4870x2 or also for the 3650 mobility?

good news for ATI ( they finaly get what they ask for, dx 10.1)

All ati cards that are HD 2XXX or newer. So yes. your 4670 is DX 10.1 compliant

yea.... sry

Its nice to see NVIDIA lose this one.

There is no doubt NVIDIA has been pressuring companies to not provide 10.1 Support.

Make a better product, don't ask software companies to intentionally make their software worse.

Only one thing for me to say... Excellent news.

So it comes out on Tuesday. I was supposed to get my Antec P182 today. I hope I get it before Far Cry 2 is released and hopefully be here by the 22nd. I'll just have to dream about Far Cry 2 until then..

how much aa? 4x 8x? msaa?

this news will only put more pressure on nvidia, not unless they get it removed with the first patch al-ah Assassins Creed, way to hold back game development

All I can say is... Roh Roh

So, the next person who says DX10.1 doesnt matter........ No matter how hard you try, progess wont and shouldnt be held back. Now... on to tessellation and DX11. Its never wise to back up older ways and to put down new ways, without really considering them. I suspect there ll a bump over these numbers http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid [...] ks/?page=3 And, for those that cant wait http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid [...] ix_driver/ The new hotfix will available soon.

Dunno about anti aliasing, but in Assassin's Creed dx 10.1 had a major impact on performance due to the reduced drawing passes. It was able to do various post processing effects in one pass where for example dx 10 or 9 needed several passes to get same effects done. If this is the case with Far Cry 2 as well, then ati owners should be in for a treat!

actually, can somebody tell what's the big diffrence between 10.1 and 10?

It's why ive gone ATI over Nvidia. Shame on Nvidia for not having dx10.1 and trying to get games to only support the old hardware Nvidia has. I also don't like the fact Nvidia doesn't work as well on LCD TV/monitor and no support for powerstrip

From what i heard you get 5 installs but if you uninstall the game completly you get that install back. Its the secure rom stuff that has me worried. Spore embeded something in the OS didnt it ?
Question.
Is it true that these security features install themselves when you first play/activate the game, and that a no DVD crack if used from theh get go would mean that they didnt install ? Just something i heard on the wind, dont know how true it is.

Mactronix

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php? [...] 7&Itemid=1

I think you are slightly confused about what went on with Nvidia and M$. Basically when DX10 was first developed for release it was pretty much meant to be what DX10.1 should be (people are still bleating trying to get some specs altered).
Nvidia threw a wobbly because their cards couldnt support it and so the spec was dumbed down to suit their cards. ATI had developed a DX10 compliant card (2 series) and so the performance was hindered by the cards having to run a differant spec to what had been expected. They carried on developing the cards and are now reaping the rewards of that persiverance. When DX10.1 turned up for AC Nvidia its rumuored (not sure of facts, legal stuff etc) got it pulled due to the swing in performance towards ATI it caused. Now its here for another game and Nvidia currantly has nothing that can run it. So who is to blame for that ? Im guessing they may release a DX10.1 card soon but i dont know.
So if ATI were aware that there was the need to make a DX10 capable card and did, then why didnt Nvidia ? Trying to say its all M$'s fault dosent add up with the facts im afraid.

Mactronix

"Sources have confirmed that three DirectX 10.1 games should launch in the next few weeks. One of them, as we reported is Far Cry 2, the first and probably the most important one, and the next two should be unveiled in the next few weeks.


Many cool games will launch in the next three to four weeks and among them two will have DirectX 10.1. we believe that ATI could have put more drive into DirectX 10.1 but ATI sells better than Nvidia due to superior performance of its cards.

When it comes to price / performance, ATI wins against Nvidia in almost every segment and even when it comes to features ATI leads with DirectX 10.1 adoptance, Display port and some other not so important things, which make a good sales point as the competitor didn't have them.

We will try to get the names of the remaining two for you. "

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php? [...] 7&Itemid=1

thought i would copy this for some that seem to lazy to click on the link

yes i know from past experience what its like to buy something and later regret that buying decision , so it will hurt all the one's that believed dx10.1 would not matter

Heres what we do have http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/arch [...] -dx10.aspx

"So now let’s discuss how our DX10 plan has evolved.



In Aug and Sept, as we lacked DX10 hardware at all (much less production quality hw) we realized we couldn’t simul-ship with Vista in Jan 2007 since we believed we needed at least 6 months with production quality hw. Getting early hw in Oct, and production hw at the G80 launch in early Nov meant at a minimum May 2007for release of DX10 support; given a 6 month schedule and a perfect world.



However, as FSX Launch occurred Oct 17 and we began to get feedback from the community we realized we needed a service pack to address performance issues and a few other issues. So we started a dialog with the community and made a commitment to delivering a service release. The work on SP1 and DX10 is being performed by the same team of people (the Graphics and Terrain team) and thus delivering SP1 has delayed DX10.



Given the state of the NV drivers for the G80 and that ATI hasn’t released their hw yet; it’s hard to see how this is really a bad plan. We really want to see final ATI hw and production quality NV and ATI drivers before we ship our DX10 support. Early tests on ATI hw show their geometry shader unit is much more performant than the GS unit on the NV hw. That could influence our feature plan.'

As we all know, given what earlier DX10 was to be and include, and seeing that ATIs cards were NOT running better than the eventual DX10, M$ call hurt ATI, but like was said earlier, since ATI stuck with the full compliance/DX10 REAL model, they now "already" have DX10.1, which there wasnt ever going to be.

all right, if you want to be semantic, put pressure on microsoft to put out a watered down version of dx10 just like they put pressure on assassins creed developers to remove dx10.1 with a patch, holding back game development in the process and on top of all that they where pissing of intel and forced intel into a partner ship with ati to get dx10.1 game's out.

I had a bit of a laugh about all this. When the 6xxx and x8xx series came out, many were crying foul at ATI because the x8xx series didn't support SM3. It's not nearly as bad because they were still DX9 compliant, and its not like the 6 series were monster performers with SM3 enabled. Still, its odd to see Nvidia claim then that they were better because they support the "current" tech, only now to claim, "we'll get around to it."

So anyone hear about that FarCry2 coming out? Fire propagation yeah?

We know a bit about whats happening to them, partners are leaving. Does anyone know if this is the partners idea, or Nvidias? I'm not sure why they are leaving, just that they are. If this "storm" keeps up, Nvidia will have to do something fast.

Evil plan TGGA, but feasible, lol.

Well, it's good to see that ATI's tech is paying off. I just hate when the tech has to go by hand with the CEO's money-rants and backs them down (or in some aspects, just plain kill a "good-tech" ).

On the DRM subject. Maybe Ubisoft is going to play it smarter than EA on this one. I mean, hopefully they'll say on big flashy letters on the box: "This game contains a root kit for DRM" and explains it on the back, lol.

It has 5 installs on 3 different PCs, and if you "correctly" uninstall one copy, you get the install "back" to you (or the game key). If they can make SecuROM un-installable, they can go for a sure-shot sale. Besides, all the DX10.1-starving ATI crowd has it's eyes on this title for obvious reasons, so that's a double selling point to this game.

Ubisoft better not screw up on this one.

Esop! XD