Batman: Arkham City - do you think DX11 is so much better?

[mikeymikec]

Since upgrading to a GeForce 750Ti and fixing a problem on my setup, I can now play Batman AC in DX11 mode acceptably (though there is the occasional frame rate drop). I'm just wondering though, does anyone think that the game in DX11 mode is so much better than in DX9?

 

[Carfax83]

Since upgrading to a GeForce 750Ti and fixing a problem on my setup, I can now play Batman AC in DX11 mode acceptably (though there is the occasional frame rate drop). I'm just wondering though, does anyone think that the game in DX11 mode is so much better than in DX9?

I wouldn't say it's "much better." Arkham City was Rocksteady's first stab at DX11, and all they used it for were some extra IQ effects, like contact hardening soft shadows, HBAO and tessellation. The contact hardening soft shadows were only for characters I believe, so that didn't really effect the overall look of the game. HBAO is better than SSAO, but ambient occlusion is a subtle effect to begin with.

The tessellation was used on quite a bit of surfaces on the other hand, and it did noticeably improve image quality to the point where I'd say it was worth it to enable..

But the biggest IQ increase came from PhysX. Arkham City is one of the best PhysX games of the old generation, but I don't think your GTX 750 Ti would be powerful enough to run it with the other effects enabled..

 

[futurefields]

Arkham City's DX11 implementation is pretty bad. It runs much better in DX 9.0c

Arkham Origin performance is much better in DX11, kudos to that team for the technical improvements they made and an underrated game overall (reminds me of 2k Marin getting no love on Bioshock 2 and The Bureau)

 

[sweenish]

It didn't help that half the complaints about Batman: AO were absolutely stupid.

I have two games occuring in Arkham City within a few years of each other, and people are complaining about recycled assets?

 

[futurefields]

and targeting the same hardware, set in the same location, yeah it was quite ridiculous and overblown but people will complain about anything these days in order to feel like part of the club

 

[futurefields]

and yet games like FTL, spelunky get a bunch of 85's to 90's for offeri g a couple hours of decades old gameplay/graphics

oh and these same ppl complain about consolization of games hahaha

go back to your monaco hipster