Next: Lost Planet Demo

Lost Planet Extreme is a demo of an upcoming PC game release. The game itself was originally designed for the XBOX 360, and what is most important in this case, is as the developers have been porting it over to PC, they have been programming it for both DirectX 9 and the new Vista-Only DirectX 10, which is suppose to bring along with it some great new effects capabilities and finally something to test the capabilities of the 8000 series graphics cards from nVidia.

As this test requires DirectX 10 capability from the graphics cards, the 1950Pro was unable to compete. The benchmark has two stages, a segment out in the open with minimal game characters but lots of weather effects, explosions etc. and wide open spaces called “Snow” and another that takes place in an enclosed area with dozens or hundreds of game characters on the screen at any one time called “Cave”. We see the results below.

Lost Planet - DirectX 10

In this test we only see a difference in the “Snow” test of around 11%, so finally we see a significant difference between the two, however there is no difference at all in the “Cave” test between the GTX and Ultra, so you really have to start thinking if this new card is worth the price premium, it’s not looking too good.

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