![]() On the other hand, the game sports perhaps the best smoke effects we’ve ever seen in a racing game, as well as a fantastic damaging system. You can literally destroy your car, so make sure to enable the full damaging system from the game’s options. Moreover, Codemasters used a lot of high resolution textures, something we were not expecting at all. There were occasions during some cut-scenes where we were wondering if we were playing a racing or a polished FPS game. Small details like a clever DoF effect, light-flares, the spikes from the buggies’ tires and the dust that covers your car are present and give some extra points to Dirt 3’s visuals. Last but not least, the game supports DX11 and offers some nice tessellation effects.Īs always, we used an overclocked Q9650 (4.2Ghz) with 4GB DDR2 and a GTX295. We also used the latest WHQL drivers from Nvidia and Windows 7 64bit. As this is a triple-A game, Nvidia has already included an SLI profile for it. SLI scaling is great and there is a benchmark tool for all of you to test your systems. GPU usage was averaging around 70-80% in both of our cores at 1080p with 4xAA and max DX9 details. We raised the AA to 8x and noticed a better GPU usage, without any performance hit at all. This basically means that Dirt 3 is CPU bound. ![]() So, time to find out how well the engine scales to quadcores. As we can see, Dirt 3 scales well, but doesn’t take full advantage of them, which is kind of sad as we had around 70-75% CPU usage. Truth be told, we were expecting a better CPU optimization from the EGO game engine. We tried to simulate a dualcore system and witnessed a 10fps hit, in both minimum and average framerate. Another indication that this game is indeed CPU bound. Thankfully, and although the game doesn’t take full advantage of quadcores, Dirt 3 performs great. Dirt 3 runs with 81fps at the aforementioned settings and with a minimum of 59fps. So what’s the verdict? Dirt 3 is a CPU bound game and won’t stress your GPU, unless you run the DX11 path and have a middle-end DX11 GPU. ![]() ![]() #1920X1080 DIRT 3 IMAGES 1080P#Ī GTX275 will be enough to max out the game under DX9 and at 1080p without any kind of AA. PC gamers, however, will need a powerful CPU. #1920X1080 DIRT 3 IMAGES PC#Īs this analysis demonstrates, a quadcore at 4.2Ghz is enough to run the game with a minimum of 59fps, which is ideal for all die-hard PC gamers. Finally, owners of dualcore CPUs will definitely notice lower framerates and will need to overclock them to overcome the game’s CPU limitation.On the event side, Dirt 3's choices keep coming. Not only has rally returned to the forefront in event selection, entire disciplines can be minimized if they don't hold your interest. Don't get me wrong, every discipline has been expanded, but rally keeps the highest event count. The main tour is split into four seasons, but as the podiums add up, six discipline-specific tours emerge, pushing the total race count to even higher numbers. ![]() So stop comparing a weak engine that cant to one that does!!welcome to GT5!HD 1280x1080 upscaled to full 1920x1080) with x2 AA !!! This is where SLI rigged PC's can compare.The locations, track variations, and event types make this a ride that lasts a long time. It not only is awe inspiring to witness native 1080p, but to experience a game like GT5 or Wipeout HD on one at 42" alone is a game winner. On any LCD by the top makers ,Sony Samsung LG or what not. There ,I repeat there is a massive difference from 1080p to 720p No use in all these effects when the overall picture is blurry and rough in action. As for now the rough up close detail wouldn't fare at all against GT5 on a 120hz 1080p LCD!!! If the programmers had the skills to push near native 1080p on Dirt, lets see how happy the frame rate would run or all the effects they are aloud. This comparison with a stupendous game that nearly pushes NATIVE 1080p (GT5)Īgainst a game that does possibly 720p at best is a ridiculous comparison!! 50Terabytespersec 4229d ago (Edited 4229d ago )įor some one (me) who plays Hi Fidelity(HD resolution)games on PC at full settings. ![]()
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