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Alan Wake DX10 Support Uncertain?

According to an interview at PCGH.de DX10 support in Alan Wake is still uncertain. On the bright side, if you have a quad-core CPU, you'll be enjoying a 30% or so performance increase. I think they must have misunderstood Markus Maki's answers though, as according to him DX10 support just hasn't been announced. The game, however, is Vista exclusive so you do the math.

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mighty_douche - 715 days 21 hours ago

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Of course, the 360 supports Dx10 right? i seem to hear people claiming it anyway.

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Mr Marbles - 715 days 20 hours ago

1.1 - well no

360 supports what many refer to as DX9.5. It has many features availible in DX10 but does not meat all the official specs to carry the title. Like the early 802.11n routers. Just as fast just as good just missing a few final specs.

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Marceles - 715 days 15 hours ago

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“Xbox360 cannot run DX10,” said an ATI spokesperson. “The Xbox360 has unique features including memory export that can enable DX10-class functionality such as stream-out. From what we’re hearing, Crysis will support DX9 with some sort of use for DX10 features. It’s likely that those DX10 visuals can be replicated on the Xbox360, but it can’t be properly called DX10.”

http://www.xboxic.com/news/...

I guess Marbles was right

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Silver Bull3t - 715 days 15 hours ago

1.3 - @ douch

Pull your head out of your butt. Your only here to kick up static. I'd love to see a link to ANY thread with people claiming 360 supports DX10. Are you able to link to your ass?

You are the Zhuk of the PStards. Believe it.

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mistertwoturbo - 715 days 21 hours ago

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wait, this game is coming out on PC too? here this whole time i thought it was only for the 360. microsoft, you idiots need to release true 360 exclusives, not 360/PC.

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neeharb - 715 days 20 hours ago

2.1 - I know what you mean

Microsoft does need to make/buy/steal games just for the Xbox 360 exclusively ...because only when people wont be able to play games on their pc's they might be tempted to buy an Xbox 360...I don't think many Ps3 games are on the pc ...they wont be...i know some if not many games last gen xbox/ps2 did eventually come on the pc but unless Xbox 360 has a good deal of amazing exclusive games and by exclusive i mean only on xbox 360...people wont buy it!! simple

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Mr Marbles - 715 days 20 hours ago

2.2 - MS

could care less which you buy, PC or 360 it is all good for them, they get a cutt of the cash from every game sold on games for windows, many folks fail to realize that Games for Windows is to MS what PS2 is to Sony, another source of income.

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deadpreacher - 715 days 16 hours ago

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Why? PC is also MS gaming income. PC and the x360 go hand in hand when it comes to MS. Your a idiot if you think MS needs to release just on the x360 when PC is there home court!

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Silver Bull3t - 715 days 15 hours ago

2.4 - yup

That's why I'm building a new gaming rig next round.

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i Shank u - 715 days 14 hours ago

2.5 - I've never understood

how exclusive means something to people. does it make you feel like you're in some cool club, if a game's exclusive to 360 or PS3? as long as the game's great, shouldn't a gamer careless what platform its on?

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Avto - 715 days 21 hours ago

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this game was never DX10 cuz Xenos being DX9(+). As for Vista exclusive, this is fairly easy to fix, patch, crack.

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Jenzo - 715 days 19 hours ago

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It doesn't affect the game, now does it? They just look for stuff to complain on. Jealousy I guess.

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vega75 - 715 days 19 hours ago

4.2 - @pornflakes

don't mind sonyfanboys. they are mad that they have to pay more money upgrading their pc's just to play it. costing way more than just owning a 360. just to play 360/pc exclusives. all this tells me about people talking about 360/pc exclusive means that the ps3 exclusives may not be as interesting as fangirl think.

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Agent-X - 715 days 20 hours ago

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this game will look good on all console i mean they've been working on this game since ages so yeah it will be a good thriller game =]

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Mr Marbles - 715 days 20 hours ago

5.1 - ^^^

what?

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Charmers - 715 days 20 hours ago

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Another game destined for failure on the PC. Not because it isn't any good but simply down to the fact it requires Vista. I wish these morons would get it into their heads "People aren't ready to move to vista" try and force us by making your games Vista only will result in one outcome, ie your game bombing sales wise.

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bloop - 715 days 19 hours ago

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So, will the 360 version be gimped?? I'm really looking forward to this game on the 360, but seen as though I'm just about to upgrade my GFX card on the PC, and after hearing this news, maybe I'll get it on PC. Do you need Vista to play on PC?? Then I'm screwed :( Can anyone recommend a good, reasonably priced GFX card?? Something that could run Crysis without breaking a sweat, but not empty my bank account. And preferably with HDMI?? I'm really not up to date with PCs anymore. Could someone please advise???

Edit: @ Charmers
Yeah, when I meant without breaking a sweat I meant that it can run it well (as in playable without having it looking like an N64 game) but without having to set everything to low setting. I do realise you'd have to take out a mortgage to get a card that would run it on all high settings without breaking a sweat. So would you recommend the 8800gt then?? And most importantly, does it have a HDMI output?? All I've got is a 15" Flatscreen monitor, so I'd like to make the most of my 42" Tv via HDMI.

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Charmers - 715 days 19 hours ago

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rofl good luck trying to find a cheap graphics card that plays Crysis without breaking into a sweat. At this current time there isn't a single card out there that can play Crysis at Ultra High, 1080p res ' 60fps. Even if you were to buy two 8800ultra's it couldn't be done. The chances are even the new 9800gtx can't do it. If you want a card that plays Crysis without breaking into a sweat then come back in three years time when Nvidia launch the G100 based cards.

Now having said all that the 8800gt will play Crysis reasonably well with settings on High and you might even get 1680 x 1050 out of it. I can run crysis on my 8800gts & quadcore at high settings with a res of 1440 x 900. So the 8800gt is about 30% faster than the 8800gts

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theox2g7 - 715 days 17 hours ago

7.2 - u don't need or probably wouldn't want 60 fps for crysis

crysis looks unrealistic at 60 fps
the animation rendering speed is slower than 60 fps so that framerate breaks the threshold and makes the game faster than normal and unrealistic, for that reason, 30 fps on crysis would feel as smooth as 50 fps in another game, from what i have tested and played around with, 45 fps is the optimum crysis framerate for things to be smoothest and still have realistic speeds, as for 2560x1600 and those crazy resolutions with a good framerate, even a quad core, 8800gt sli, 4 gb ram rig can do that with the tweaks available and it would even still run magnificent as long as it runs the tweaks under dx9 mode, meaning an 8800gt with tweaks won't break a sweat if u have a decent dual core with v1.1 patch and running a dx9 tweak,
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Even Non tweaked, all very high, weak dual core is breaking 20-50 fps on 1280x1024 without tweaks, and tweaks can boost framerates as much as by 12 fps and make the game even look better than high or very high

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Charmers - 715 days 16 hours ago

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@theox2g7 I wasn't dissing PC gaming or Crysis (I love the game minus that alien space ship rubbish) but to play Crysis on Ultra High at the resolutions PC gamers expect (ie higher than 1080p) you need a kick ass PC, there is no getting around that and the poster did ask for a "cheap" card that will do it.

@bloop yep probably the best value for money card at the moment with enough power is the 8800gt although I have heard it runs a bit hot. If you can sit it out, it might be worth waiting a month or two for the 9000 series to hit, I hear the 9600gt is going to be almost as fast as the old style 8800gts and shouldn't cost more than £100. As for HDMI I am not an expert on that I am afraid but I do believe you can get an adapter that converts the DVI ports into HDMI ports (some cards even come with said adapter). Hope this helps.

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bloop - 715 days 15 hours ago

7.4 - Charmers.....

.....I might go for the 8800gt now then, instead of waiting for the 9000 series. It's been a year or so since I did any PC gaming as the card I have now went kaput and has all sorts of problems rendering, I dunno what it is but it's like it's not detecting weld points on the polygons and they're just leaking and stretching all over the place (if that makes any sense at all :P) so it's well over due!!!! Shame really, as it's a pretty meaty card too. And on the HDMI thing, I think full 1080p is possible with a DVI-HDMI adapter (well according to Wikipedia it is anyway) so that's that sorted too. Thanx for the comments and advice :)

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The Dark Knight - 715 days 18 hours ago

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i cant wait for alan wake, but for the time being ill have to play MGS 4 till it comes out :(................... YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA

i love having all consoles ;)

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Silver Bull3t - 715 days 15 hours ago

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dp :(

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Uh_Oh - 715 days 14 hours ago

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I'll get the 360 version for achievements even though i could run that game.

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DarkSniper - 715 days 13 hours ago

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It seems to Dark Sniper that Remedy has begun a serious evaluation of the console gaming industry and are re-routing their thoughts on this highly anticipated title. Dark Sniper will welcome this game with open arms as Remedy will prepare the announcement of Alan Wake coming to PLAYSTATION® 3 and Windows Vista. With a rapid growing install base and with undeniable hardware superiority, Dark Sniper can almost promise that Alan Wake will see significant development upgrade on PLAYSTATION® 3.

$niper

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