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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will support DirectX 11

It's official. DICE's upcoming shooter, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will offer DirectX 11 graphics when it debuts this March. Up to this point DICE had considered their DX11 codepath for Bad Company 2 "experimental", but apparently ATI's been working with them and they're now at the point where they can officially offer DX11 graphics when the game debuts early next year.

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evrfighter5314d ago

Originally DICE had showed in a powerpoint slide that Directx11 would be reserved for Frostbite 2.0.

Big thanks to ATI for moving the industry forward. Looks like I have my reason to upgrade.

wxer5313d ago

okay so let me sum things ip

IW f*cked things up
DICE just toke the stage

so from now on
no COD
yes Battlefield: Bad Company

thank god i didn't buy MW2

toaster5313d ago

Does everyone know what this means?????
Well one word pretty much sums it up: MONUMENTAL

IW's engine will look like it was made for GameCube.

randomwiz5313d ago

just when IW insulted pc gaming, DICE saves it.

Noctis Aftermath5313d ago

great job ATI, this game is going to be great, but with dx11 compatability it will be insane.

darkmurder5313d ago

Dice are taking no chances (see what I did there), god I love their love for PC gamers!

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rawrockkillz5314d ago

Another reason why Battlefield:BC2 will be better than MW2.

Trizelda5313d ago

DICE is really showing the love to PC gamers.

Pandamobile5313d ago

I was reading through a lot of the DICE developers' Twitter pages and most of them REALLY favour working with PC. Especially that Repi guy. Gordon Van Dyke too.

Bumpmapping5313d ago

Damn DICE is on a roll.

DICE>IW

lordkemp0075313d ago

Nice one.

Lets hope they roll a six because IW rolled a four.

Madis0075313d ago

DICE

We love you !!!
BF2 came out 2005 and 2009 you again updated game.
DICE THANKS A LOT :d

Perjoss5313d ago

thats impressive, for some reason i thought of DICE as a company to churn them out and not bother with updates, I was obviously wrong, more companies need to support their games a bit more.

peeps5313d ago

it's a massive update as well if i remember correctly. will have to pop on bf2 sometime actually. been a while

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Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's Scope Was Impacted by Xbox Series S Limitations

Wccf tech writes: "Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's scope was impacted by the Xbox Series S hardware limitations, as developers could only make a game that was 25% bigger than its predecessor."

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-Foxtrot4h ago

This is the issue with things like this

Xbox Series X is apparently to MS the worlds most powerful console

However the Series S is obviously a limitation because it’s underpowered and developers have to go for parity.

So what’s the point of the world’s most powerful console if you are holding third party developers back? They aren’t going to push themselves if they have to think about the weakest console.

The issue wouldn’t be as bad if it was just Xbox but you are also affecting the PS version aswell

I think developers need to start just taking advantage of a console and if one of them can’t do X Y and Z then f*** them…why should the others suffer. What’s MS going to do? The bigger the franchise the least chance MS are going to tell them to f*** off. Baulders Gate 3 seemed to have stood their ground and suddenly their “strict” parity rule didn’t really matter. We suddenly got super optimisation efforts for the Series S that got things sorted.

anast56m ago

I agree, and the sad part is use normal folk saw it the second they announced their plans.

LucasRuinedChildhood5h ago

More info from the author of the article, I think: https://www.reddit.com/r/ki...

Quote:
"1) I was told this info from the producer of the game Martin Klíma.
2) He specifically said the game will have only one mode.
3) And this mode is 4K 30 on PS5/XSX and 1440p 30 on XSS.
4) He said that the game is already running north of the 30 FPS cap so the performance should be stable on launch, much better than KCD1.
5) The limitation was XSS because of the 10GB memory. He said that's why they wanted to make the game 25% larger.
6) Speculation on my part: the output resolution is probably upscaled and the reason why there won't be a 60 FPS mode is because it'll most likely be very CPU heavy, like Dragon's Dogma 2 for example."

Doesn't seem like they're adding a 40fps mode on PS5/Series X for launch even if they can handle it.

Sgt_Slaughter55m ago

I'd much rather have 1440p/60fps or even 45fps. Having just one, even with the Series S in mind, is disappointing.

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Celebrate the Diablo Anniversary with March of the Goblins

Come celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Diablo IV and the 2-year anniversary of Diablo Immortal! There are heaps of rewards to mark these celebrations with a bounty of devilish goods across both games.

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anast6h ago

This game is about to get buried by Path 2.

LordoftheCritics5h ago

Still no global chat or group finder.

The emptiest MP game ever made.

OtterX5h ago

1 more month then I can celebrate 1 year since i stopped playing and uninstalled the game.

Walalon3h ago

We are on the same team brother!

Rynxie23m ago

I uninstalled d4 after they kept screwing over the sorc build and I beat the game. I also uninstalled immortal after reading the end. I actually went back to d2r here and there.

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Tales of the Shire Stands at a Fork in the Road Regarding Magic

Tales of the Shire has many hurdles to jump to live up to the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, and magical elements might be its most pertinent one.

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