DirectX 11 and Tesselation - Feeling lucky?

[capanno]

Ive been following this engine since infancy, and its turned into an amazing piece of software. They claim to be the first middleware supplier to include full support of hardware tesselation.

http://unigine.com/products/heaven/



You can download a benchmark installer that runs this beast. Post your results!

Here's a video of Tesselation in action:

[GreyWolf]

MOAR POLYGONS!!!!

awesome.

edit. my previous statment was short sighted. If those videos represent true in-game image quality, then this engine is nothing short of flaberghasting... excuse my french... but holy c**p in a steeek that is seriously impressive...

[capanno]

And for the price, $25 000, its about 20 times cheaper than Unreal Engine 3, and do you get 20 times more features. Hell no.

[capanno]

I finally got to download this benchmark and run it. Im a little sad that I couldn't test the tesselation, but it looks great non the less.








Dynamic day night cycle.












You can run around freely in the town, or use a fly through camera. You can adjust the time of day manually with the slider.

FPS: 44.1
Scores: 1110
Min FPS: 3.0
Max FPS: 97.6

Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1280x1024 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction:enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: disabled

[Hman]

Downloaded it after your first post, but didn't run the benchmark portion yet. It looks good with tessellation on but it chows performance on my card in normal mode. If I lower it to medium it runs fine and looks basically the same.

[ryanrich]

Downloaded this yesterday. Fetching my GTX 480 this afternoon and then I shall test the prettyness...

[KALSTER]

It does indeed look fantastic, but Ati cards seem to have problems with it.

[ryanrich]

Yup, from the benchmarks I've seen so far the nVidia's completely spank ATI in tesselation. Maybe it'll be resolved in driver updates and optimisations down the line...

[Hman]

Hardware
Binary:
Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Mar 7 2010
Operating system:
Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model:
Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 170
CPU flags:
2500MHz MMX+ 3DNow!+ SSE SSE2 SSE3 HTT
GPU model:
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series 8.741.0.0 1024Mb

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Settings
Render:	direct3d11
Mode:	1280x1024 windowed
Shaders:	high
Textures:	high
Filter:	trilinear
Anisotropy:	4x
Occlusion:	enabled
Refraction:	enabled
Volumetric:	enabled
Replication:	disabled
Tessellation: disabled


FPS:	        40.6
Scores:	1022
Min FPS:	24.9
Max FPS:	78.4

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Settings
Render:	direct3d11
Mode:	1280x1024 windowed
Shaders:	high
Textures:	high
Filter:	trilinear
Anisotropy:	4x
Occlusion:	enabled
Refraction:	enabled
Volumetric:	enabled
Replication:	disabled
Tessellation: moderate


FPS:	        31.1
Scores:	783
Min FPS:	11.0
Max FPS:	78.5

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Settings
Render:	direct3d11
Mode:	
1680x1050 fullscreen
Shaders:	high
Textures:	high
Filter:	trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion:	enabled
Refraction:	enabled
Volumetric:	enabled
Replication:	disabled
Tessellation: moderate

FPS:	        26.1
Scores:	657
Min FPS:	10.2
Max FPS:	58.5

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Settings
Render:    direct3d11
Mode:	
1680x1050 fullscreen
Shaders:	high
Textures:	high
Filter:	trilinear
Anisotropy:	4x
Occlusion:	enabled
Refraction:	enabled
Volumetric:	enabled
Replication:	disabled
Tessellation:	normal

FPS:	22.7
Scores:	572
Min FPS:	9.1
Max FPS:	56.9

[Hman]

At 1280x1024 I seem to be CPU limited topping out at 78FPS. With moderate tessellation my min FPS drops quite heavily.

[ryanrich]

Really awesome demo this! Tesselation gives the benchmark a good whack...

1920x1080, normal tesselation, no AA.



1920x1080, extreme tesselation, 2x AA.

[capanno]

Super scores!

[ryanrich]

Thanks man, gonna do some more tinkering tonight, it's definitely a benchmark I can watch over a few times.

[Hman]

I need more speed!

With a better proccie I could do better.

[Mike_J.M]

Guys. Where is the best site for downloading Directx 11?

[rustypup]

.... iApple?

[Mike_J.M]

can you give me the link?

[GreyWolf]

Mike, ignore rusty, he was hit with some devastating news earlier.

DirectX11 should be available from the Microsoft site. Check this link.

You do realize DX11 comes with Windows 7, and cannot be installed on Windows XP right?

[Mike_J.M]

Thanx alot mate. Im using win 7 pro 64-bit

[prophet]

Windows 7 is released with DX11

[Hman]

....You do realize DX11 comes with Windows 7, and cannot be installed on Windows XP right?

Windows 7 is released with DX11

Hahaha.

[A_BULLET]

Hi PCformatdid a review about DX11 in 2009 i think where it said that we will get 3 times more fps than with DX 10 if I remember correct!
but I get less fps than with DX 10. Did someone else read that article?