Unigine Tropics 1.1 DirectX 10.1 benchmark released

Posted on Friday, October 31 2008 @ 4:34 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Unigine released version 1.1 of their Tropics demo, new in this version is the addition of DirectX 10.1 support. You can download it over here, it features some pretty sweet graphics. This benchmark uses the Unigine engine.

Key changes:

Support of DirectX 10.1 multisampling features
Performance boost
Procedural grass
Multisampled deferred buffer, which allows combination of light scattering with anti-aliasing
Pixel Shader Model 3.0 support is required now, so minimal supported hardware is ATI Radeon X1xxx / NVIDIA GeForce 6xxx
Additional AMD CrossFire optimizations
Correct detection of NVIDIA GTX series

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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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