Dirt 2 Mini review

[20mmrain]

I'm confused man. Of course frame rates will be playable without AA, they'll be better! Don't bother buying the game for testing, download the free demo, it has a benchmark built in.

Sorry I worded it the wrong way. But I saw your post on the quick Download so I'm grabbing that right away! Thanx!

I just had some expendable cash and I didn't want to waist 6 hours of downloading it!

 

[Asylum]

Heres my results with everything maxed out @ 1920x1200 and a single GTX285.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

erocker any results for me at 3.4ghz 1800mhz NB ??

 

[20mmrain]

Please don't shoot me for asking this question but on the DEMO it won't let me set the setting's to Ultra high. (For DX11) Now has it been stated before and I'm not noticing it.... is that option not available in the demo?
I have VISTA SP2 with the appropriate DX11 Update and a 5870 not sure why it's not working that high?

 

[erocker]

Ultra should be listed under the presets.

 

[20mmrain]

Ultra should be listed under the presets.

Yeah it should shouldn't it? But not only do I not have the Ultra capability (it's listed just won't let me select it.) But I also don't have a Benchmark area either!

I downloaded it from hear too.

Freaking really weird I'm going to try to download agin

 

[erocker]

What drivers are you using?

Dirt 2 hotfix drivers: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU41-Hotfix-to-improve-Dirt2-performance.aspx

DirectX update: http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-US/aboutGFW/pages/directx.aspx

Follow this guide: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=52502

 

[20mmrain]

What drivers are you using?

Dirt 2 hotfix drivers: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...rformance.aspx

DirectX update: http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-US...s/directx.aspx

Follow this guide: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=52502

I'm using 9.11 original AMD drivers.

I don't have Xfire so I thought the HOT fix was for Xfire only.

I will update my DX and will download again. If that doesn't work I will try the HOT fix. I will keep you updated!

 

[erocker]

erocker any results for me at 3.4ghz 1800mhz NB ??

Here you go. With CrossFire enabled.

 

[3volvedcombat]

I get a average of 18,500 frames and 75-65 fps with my dx9 GTX260 and q9550 overclocked to 4.0Ghz everything to the very maximum Ultra and 8xqsaa(the highest it will let me go) and 1440x900 does this game take advantage of quad cores?

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

yup its the CPU holding me back then cause thats just about where i hit on average granted ur gpus are overclocked and mine are not so yea at this moment its clearly the DDR2 and NB holding me back good to know just means this game prefers the AM3 platform compared to the AM2 platform thanks erocker u helped me out at least now i know its not my system just the 940BE is to long in the tooth for a 5850 crossfire setup

 

[PP Mguire]

I get an average of 59FPS with preset to high and the rest set to ultra that i can set to. 1920x1200 with 8xaa

And why for fucks sake is there water in the middle of the desert randomly in a track? That has to be the dumbest thing ive ever seen.

 

[Lionheart]

hmmmm i gonna have a shot of this demo, it better run good, not DX10 all over again!

 

[Lionheart]

What drivers are you using?

Dirt 2 hotfix drivers: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU41-Hotfix-to-improve-Dirt2-performance.aspx

DirectX update: http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-US/aboutGFW/pages/directx.aspx

Follow this guide: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=52502

Hey Erocker, do you have to use the CCC 9.11 Drivers for this cause Im using the CCC 9.10 and the 9.11 ones were really shit to me, i got huged dip in performance in all games i play so i went back to 9.10 and everything iz peachy, just wanted to know do i only require the hotfixes and DX update for this demo man, cheers


My bad for posting twice!

 

[INSTG8R]

I agree. They got a bunch of dudes from the douchebag club to do this game. The racing itself is great, but it really doesn't have much to do with rally. Straight up, this game is Race Driver GRID on dirt tracks. Aside from the douchebaggery, I like it.

Yeah the racing is still racing and looks, runs and feels great. IF I pick this one up it will be on my PS3...

 

[Lionheart]

ooooohh sweet, I got average FPS 58.65 and minimum was 51.32 on the morocco benchmark track. settings was 1920x1080 8xMSAA with my HD5870, cant complain about that, but how do you know if the game iz running in DX11 mode, I set the presets to ultra, the game looked good but not great It looked like my PS3 demo version but higer res and AA support can anyone say DX11 marketing hype lmao!!!

 

[FilipM]

I can run the game maxed out with my system specs at 1680 x 1050 with 2x MSAA. In the cockpit on Morroco when driving i stay steady around the 65FPS mark. I looked up at the on screen display from the MSI Afterburner as often as i could without distracting myself, lol Im happy

We'll see how much of an improvement the new pc im getting makes later on this week



Other than that, the game has decent phisycs, not the best in the world, it won't be compared with Richard Burns Rally for the realism, but it's one hell of an improvement over Dirt 1! It reminds me very much of Colin McRae 2004 just with fancy graphics and some better FFB on the steering wheel.



PS. Anyone under the 3:00 mark on Morroco with the Eclipse GT?

 

[Lionheart]

I was expecting much more, but thats hype BS for ya

 

[PP Mguire]

Hey Chaos can you overclock your cpu anymore than that? I wanna try and estimate the performance ill be getting when i upgrade to 5870. Cause your getting about the same avg as me but your cpu is slower.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

anyone that uses a Phenom II dont worry about clock speed didnt see any improvement upping my Clock speed in Dirt2 BUT taking my NB from 1800mhz all the way to 2400mhz resulted in a 13FPS MINIMUM gain and 20fps gain on the average thanks to erocker for testing his 955 for me clearly the 940BE was starved on NB bandwidth

 

[erocker]

Hey Erocker, do you have to use the CCC 9.11 Drivers for this cause Im using the CCC 9.10 and the 9.11 ones were really shit to me, i got huged dip in performance in all games i play so i went back to 9.10 and everything iz peachy, just wanted to know do i only require the hotfixes and DX update for this demo man, cheers


My bad for posting twice!

Use the Dirt 2 hotfix drivers in the link. Do the uninstall/reinstall link too.

 

[Lionheart]

Hey Chaos can you overclock your cpu anymore than that? I wanna try and estimate the performance ill be getting when i upgrade to 5870. Cause your getting about the same avg as me but your cpu is slower.

Sry bro, wont let me get past 3.5ghz, northbridge gets way too hot cause my mobo have really cool but really shit heatsinks on it, so I left it at 3.5ghz, Im content with that, but your overclock on your core i5 @ 4.6ghz iz nuts man, plus ur memory is running at the fastest DDR3 speed I've seen.

So your getting the same fps as me, its obvisouly because of ur CPU overclock and Im assuming ur running it in DX10 with that GTX280, Im not sure if theres a big performance drop when running in DX11 mode but I know that the HD5870 will perform much better than ur GTX280

 

[20mmrain]

So your getting the same fps as me, its obvisouly because of ur CPU overclock and Im assuming ur running it in DX10 with that GTX280, Im not sure if theres a big performance drop when running in DX11 mode but I know that the HD5870 will perform much better than ur GTX280

I wonder why I'm not getting Frame Drops that large when I am running in DX11. I have a single DX11. Res. 1680x1050 5870 @ 850/1200 Ultra settings @ 8XAA Averaging about 58.8Fps Min 53FPS. Will take screen shot to post.........

Not sure but it's not letting me take screen shot right now. But I'm getting really decent FRAME RATES at 1680x1050 with a single 5870

 

[W1zzard]

looks like the 60 fps limit is only in windowed mode.. just got 73 fps on the new vga test system

 

[Lionheart]

I wonder why I'm not getting Frame Drops that large when I am running in DX11. I have a single DX11. Res. 1680x1050 5870 @ 850/1200 Ultra settings @ 8XAA Averaging about 58.8Fps Min 53FPS. Will take screen shot to post.........

Not sure but it's not letting me take screen shot right now. But I'm getting really decent FRAME RATES at 1680x1050 with a single 5870

Well we are getting the same average FPS but our minimum iz where you slighty beat me by 2 FPS probably because of the resolution, Im at 1920x1080, ur 1680x1050, same AA and my HD5870 iz OC to 880mhz GPU & 1275mhz Memory so upping the Res and GPU clocks kinda helps a bit