VGA performance: Colin McRae DiRT 2 (DX11)

Colin McRae Dirt 2 (DX11)

When Codemasters announced that they'd be delaying their hotty upcoming and much anticipated title Colin McRae DiRT 2, nobody really understood the dynamic of delaying the PC version -- while Codemasters was already releasing the console version. As it turned out ATI was really keen to see high-profile titles carrying support for DirectX 11.

Codemasters took advantage of DirectX 11 features to add some more realism of the racing environment. You'll notice an improved representation of water with the help of displacement mapping and other surfaces as well as complex crowd animations which are tessellated for richer detail.

Image Quality setting:

• DirectX 11 mode
• Baja Iron Route 1
• 8x Anti-Aliasing
• 16x Anisotropic Filtering
• All settings maxed out

Pretty nice performance considering our stringent image quality settings. The game looks incredible this way. Brilliant scaling alright.

Currently these are the DX11 class cards available on the market today, so there you go. We measure with DX11 tessellation activated and 8xAA.