DX10 Gaming: Call of Juarez

Call of Juarez – Direct3D10

Notes

One of the first games that will be patched to support DX10 graphics is Call of Juarez. Reviewers were given the opportunity to test a very early beta build of the game, the results of which you see above. In testing with the early build of the game, the Radeon HD cards are able to pull ahead of the factory overclocked GeForce 8800 GTS card by about 6-8%, but still trail the GeForce 8800 GTX and Ultra. However this early build of the game has an application bug that prevents GeForce 8800 cards from rendering the game with AA. We were able to get our hands on a newer build of the game and obtained the following results:






Under the new build of the game, the factory overclocked GeForce 8800 GTS card is able to squeeze ahead of the Radeon HD 2900 XT under both 0xAA and 4xAA. In fact, in both cases the GeForce 8800 GTS card is able to pull away from the Radeon HD 2900 XT as resolution is increased. This is surprising considering the Radeon card’s memory bandwidth advantage.

We should hopefully see more DX10 content very soon. The DX10 patch for Company of Heroes should be released later this month, while a DX10 version of the hit Xbox 360 shooter Lost Planet is expected to be released later this summer.