Dirt 2 Mini review

[20mmrain]

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

CC my 5870 overclocks actually very nicely! I have had mine up @ 950/1350 on stock volts without crash. But I lowered it back down waiting that hopefully ATI will unlock the overclocks by an Update. If they don't I will raise it back up but right now it runs everything beautifully with out it. Even Crysis I am getting around 40FPS average.
But I just saw the review here and saw that most people were getting lower FPS than that with their single 5870's. So I decided to throw my out put here..... to maybe suggest that something was wrong with their settings.
But that's great to hear that I'm not the only one who is able to play a DX11 game with wonderful FPS!

But maybe I just looked at this post too quick. Maybe people are getting better FPS in the game. I have a new found respect for my 5870! It's a great 1st gen card!

 

[newfellow]

It is too bad that DX11 cannot save what a terrible disgrace this game is to Rally racing and Colin McRae's name.

I just have to +1 for that.. Hell there's way better looking & feeling CMRally's out there.

For one who the hell says I wanna even try another car? and looks of it this game as well like GRID pushed me to drive everything else but a scooter which I'm pretty sure gonna be in next release too. Wish they at codemasters would actually take step back and think 'What was fun to play..'.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

completely pissed Dirt2 is out yet i cant download it from steam even tho you can buy the god damn game from them this is why i buy my games the old fashioned way in a box at least then i physically have something to be pissed at instead of a bunch of 0s and 1s on server miles away from me

 

[erocker]

You can now donload it on Steam. Finally.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

BOUT DAMN TIME -_- Dec 4th my ass took till the 8th and it was late then man sometimes i hate steam but now its time to get me some Dirt2 action going and try the real game out was tired of the same 2 races

 

[erocker]

I'm loving the game. It looks beautiful. The track in Croatia looks amazing.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

game looks great but im seriously tired of the LONG videos and being treated like im 4 years old codemasters game just from first loading it has turned me off completely from buying any more games last i checked im not an idiot i dont need to be spoon fed how to choose a race or change settings nor do i care about cool videos at entrance to there game i want to load the game and play the game spend 10 mins jumping through the stupid hoops to play the first race unnacceptable.

am i being harsh maybe but after 4 days delay and then this spoon feeding me bs its left a bad taste already

 

[erocker]

game looks great but im seriously tired of the LONG videos and being treated like im 4 years old codemasters game just from first loading it has turned me off completely from buying any more games last i checked im not an idiot i dont need to be spoon fed how to choose a race or change settings nor do i care about cool videos at entrance to there game i want to load the game and play the game spend 10 mins jumping through the stupid hoops to play the first race unnacceptable.

am i being harsh maybe but after 4 days delay and then this spoon feeding me bs its left a bad taste already

Lol, yeah the beginning sucked. I'm on Malaysia now and it looks amazing.

 

[ShRoOmAlIsTiC]

anyone having an issue with the steam version and 30fps lock. the game will not go over 30fps. in the benchmark its 29.8 minimum and 30.1 average. really need to fix that

 

[shevanel]

im gettings 40 fps solid most of the time but i do notice the stuttering as well. I also notice there is only 5% max cpu usage when I'm playing. Maybe there is an updated needed for cpu? i know a couple games that had a patch to update cpu usage and identification.

I am playing some more tonight, I want to see some of the night races.

 

[ShRoOmAlIsTiC]

I had vsync on in the settings, I guess there is an issue with vsync and ati maxing out at 30fps cap.

 

[shevanel]

if this doesnt wanna make you go find a long dirt road to speed on then i don't know what will

Me dirt 2 vid #1

DX11 features exposed
Video # 2

Lighting
water ripple
dust
flags

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

yup its official i hate codemasters more then i do EA or Activision

controller support is non existent hate using xpadder it defeats the purpose of using a controller to begin with. bah guess ill let the game digitally rot on my HDD

 

[Lionheart]

if this doesnt wanna make you go find a long dirt road to speed on then i don't know what will

Me dirt 2 vid #1

DX11 features exposed
Video # 2

Lighting
water ripple
dust
flags

Great vid man, that HD5770 looks like it runs it pretty well

 

[OnBoard]

Boy it took loong to get playing First download 10GB of steam, then it tried to install stuff, but hang on GamesForWindowsLive, manual install fixed that. Needed to make GFWL account, hit another cd-key there, then all the video and blaablaa.

Think it was 15min from the start to first race Well at least the game looks awesome and silky smooth maxed. Plus points for detecting right resolution and GFX settings weren't the lowest either at start. Oh and XBoX360 pad is soo good in this. Glad I bought that thing a while back, liking the buttons mapped in most games. Even GFWL had B button up there for back.

Tried the demo with keyboard and the menu system was hard to go through, with pad I like it and looking around also helps with the immersion. Replay with pad is from another planet, you can't get anywhere near the experience with keyboard&mouse. I'm actually looking at replays now and forwarding & rewinding in slow motion some close hits and generally spinning the camera around to what ever direction I feel like.

Now the driving part, didn't feel that great with keyboard. Way over sensitive, but that was fixed in the control sensitivity settings. With pad it just felt right. Yeah it's still way too sensitive, but settings are there to tweak. I even use the flashbacks now, as the replay control is easy with pad.

Overall I'm impressed, especially after all the critic I've read about the game. For a 'free' game (got it with my processor) that looks good, runs good, sounds good (liking the Rapture 3D thing wit headphones surround) and plays good, not bad at all.

Have to play more to be sure and get better with pad, but so far it's fun (might be a bit biased, as it's the only game I have installed. Still missing side panels on computer )

 

[assaulter_99]

I just got it and tried it. Mixed feelings so far, maybe i aint used to the handling yet. But man does it look good when water splashes on your screen!

 

[OnBoard]

I just got it and tried it. Mixed feelings so far, maybe i aint used to the handling yet. But man does it look good when water splashes on your screen!

Move the linearity to 0 (default is 4), will help.

 

[assaulter_99]

Move the linearity to 0 (default is 4), will help.

And what will that change? Btw I play on a cheapo ps2 style joypad and its works (someone ^ had probs with the controller)

 

[assaulter_99]

Move the linearity to 0 (default is 4), will help.

Now that's much better thanks.

 

[OnBoard]

And what will that change? Btw I play on a cheapo ps2 style joypad and its works (someone ^ had probs with the controller)

Now that's much better thanks.

It'll make steering linear, as in every control action has the same effect or every part of axis.

Wuhuu, 171th on the tournament track. Looked the JollyRoger's ghost or what he was in the lead last and he was driving in the walls..

Well mine wasn't a clean lap eitheir, had contacts, but not anything that was meant as a speed boost. Wanted to try different settings and took restart, that alse reset the fastest time I had got so far

 

[20mmrain]

I had vsync on in the settings, I guess there is an issue with vsync and ati maxing out at 30fps cap.

I am noticing the same thing on Steam downloaded game. I just did this last night. Well I also have been getting locked most of the time at 30FPS when Vsync is on. But since I have read this thread and now take off Vsync I average 58.9 FPS @1680/1050 with 4xAA .
So my question is does anyone know if they have come out with a fix for this or not? I don't like the tearing I get when I leave Vsync off.

Or will we just have to wait for ATI to bring out 9.12 Drivers.

 

[OnBoard]

Well I also have been getting locked most of the time at 30FPS when Vsync is on. But since I have read this thread and now take off Vsync I average 58.9 FPS @1680/1050 with 4xAA .
So my question is does anyone know if they have come out with a fix for this or not? I don't like the tearing I get when I leave Vsync off.

In the mean time, lower the graphics setting that you get over 60fps most of the time and you should get 60FPS with vsync on too.

I don't use vsync ever, but shouldn't triple buffer help with it? 40FPS instead of 30 FPS in intense spots.

 

[burtram]

I just have to pop in here and get this off my thoughts... In my blunt opinion, this shouldn't be considered a Dirt sequel, but a spin-off, it should be called "X-Games: Dirt Edition" or GRID: X-Games edition... lol. I mean why do we have to race the same 2 tracks per country 20 times.. wheres all the classic rally cars from the first Dirt game? And why oh why did they take out Hill Climb? For me, the game is also really only playable after you mute the music, and all things related to speech; then you can just race and enjoy it (until you end up racing the same tracks over and over, then you get numb to it).

 

[20mmrain]

In the mean time, lower the graphics setting that you get over 60fps most of the time and you should get 60FPS with vsync on too.

I don't use vsync ever, but shouldn't triple buffer help with it? 40FPS instead of 30 FPS in intense spots.

Why would Lowering your Graphics help? Wouldn't turning things up help more if you are trying to achieve that? The more maxed out you have things the lower the FPS.
So what I did was turn off Vsync and play the game @ 1680x1050 with 8XAA On Ultra preset. This gets me to have the following FPS....

Max. 65 to 70FPS
Avg. 55 to 60 FPS
Min. 48 to 55 FPS

So is that what you were trying to explain. But correct me if I'm wrong I thought Vsync was the correct thing to do with game so Your FPS wasn't flying off the map? Thanks

 

[OnBoard]

Why would Lowering your Graphics help? Wouldn't turning things up help more if you are trying to achieve that? The more maxed out you have things the lower the FPS.
So what I did was turn off Vsync and play the game @ 1680x1050 with 8XAA On Ultra preset. This gets me to have the following FPS....

Max. 65 to 70FPS
Avg. 55 to 60 FPS
Min. 48 to 55 FPS

So is that what you were trying to explain. But correct me if I'm wrong I thought Vsync was the correct thing to do with game so Your FPS wasn't flying off the map? Thanks

I think you got it wrong. This explains it better than I could and would know:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=928593

Basically you need above refresh rate always, if you want 60fps with vsync on. When the framerate drops under 60 FPS the game (every game) will run at 30 FPS. Lower settings would result in higher minimum framerate -> more 60FPS gaming.

Your average is actually pretty close, if it was 60 to 65 FPS then I'd think vsync on would result in smooth playing. Minimum being 48FPS you should get 40 FPS minimum all the time with vsync + triple buffering on.

Downside of triplebuffer couple years back was that it uses more VRAM, but with todays (1GB) cards we have plenty of that to spare, even with high res + AF/AA. Just don't know how it works today, NVIDIA control panel seems to have it global settings, but is it applied to D3D too or just OpenGL games (basically none of those these days).

RivaTuner has D3DOverrider that should do the trick for triple buffer in D3D games, but don't know more as I like vsync off.

btw. quite a beast that 5870 is. Got someting like 45FPS min and 65 avarage with 1680x1050 ultra and 4xAA/16xAF. And this is without the DX11 stuff. Though the game benchmark is weird, now it was some stadium track, first time it was a long baja race. Think it uses last track you raced on?