Lost Planet dx9 and dx10 demos

[bee]

They both got released last night, obviously the dx10 demo only works on vista.This is a pc port of the xbox 360 game if your wondering and is the 1st chance to check out directx 10 in action but both look and play well and are well worth a download.

DX9 demo

DX10 demo

[rootjuiceUK]

Is there any point with 6600gt sli? Man i want an 8800 of any flavor bad. Got to figure out how to get into my case first, somehow the the locks jammed becasue the side panel looks slightly out of place. Any ideas? Why its got a bloody lock on it anyway i dont know.

[bee]

well it is VERY system intensive so i'd probably say no actually but you may aswell give it a go anyway, just make sure you've got the latest directx installed or you'll get all sorts of .dll errors, heres a link

Directx april 2007

[streetster]

see the headline thread here



runs a bit crap on my rig, had to drop details/etc down to medium...

also cant seem to get a higher res than 1280x960 (so run at 1280x800 due to 16:10 screen)... may just be a limitation of the demo, maybe they'll fix this in the full game

[Iain M]

thanks, downloading the dx10 demo now

[toolsong]

see the headline thread here



runs a bit crap on my rig, had to drop details/etc down to medium...

also cant seem to get a higher res than 1280x960 (so run at 1280x800 due to 16:10 screen)... may just be a limitation of the demo, maybe they'll fix this in the full game

I believe you can manually edit the config file

[sp3n]

nice game, runs ok(ish) - 40fps~

[jonathan_phang]

I got to admit that its quite a taxing game graphically, had to run at 1280x800 and with most things at low and medium, i thought that it actually looked pretty decent - although in a fuzzy way. May need to see if I can run at native TFT res (gotta fine that config file!!!) if it looks clearer.

Didnt play the game that much, just messed with settings really. Thought that it was fine, but capcom did their usual and you see 'Press B' etc on the menus, which is just plain lazy.

I'm sure that there will be proper screen resolutions in the final game, and its probably going to be a good blast - i just keep thinking of stardship troopers!

This may be the game that pushes me to get a DX10 card. Not for this game in particular - but it kind of proves that my system is losing its edge...

[Iain M]

couldn't get it to run on Vista x64, kept getting something along the lines of "couldn't find some dll file reinstalling the app might help", can't really be bothered searching for the dll files either...

[Fire_Storm]

Looks amazing!
*buys*

[rootjuiceUK]

Iain M heres a link that could help: http://www.tweakguides.com/

Pretty much what Bee said about having the latest DirectX but also Nvidia users should make sure to install the 158.42 Forceware drivers or newer.

Also suggests turning off Concurrent Rendering if your experiencing hard lock crash/freeze during the game.

[noTHINGface]

An interesting article over at FiringSquad that compares the performance of the DX9 version against the DX10 build;

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...0_performance/

DX9 seems to be out performing the DX10 build consistently... So why are we supposed to be upgrading to Vista then

[Ferral]

For anyone getting the missing dll in Vista. Go to the Windows update site and get the April 07 Direct X update. This will fix the problem.

[mcmiller]

hmm nice im gonna dl that tonight, wonder how my radeon 9800pro will cope.
Whats the game actually like ? i thought the xbox 360 game looked quite good but im never keen on console to pc ports

[bee]

hmm nice im gonna dl that tonight, wonder how my radeon 9800pro will cope.
Whats the game actually like ? i thought the xbox 360 game looked quite good but im never keen on console to pc ports

unfortunately the game requires sm 3.0 which your 9800pro doesnt have so the game wont run at all.

[streetster]

you can find the config file here:

C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data\capcom\lostplanetTrial\config.ini

hmm looks like i cant run it in 1680x1050 without running out of video memory, thats a bit of a disappointment...