S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pirpyat DirectX11 screenshots show off . . . shadows?

Posted Sep 25th 2009 12:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: FPS, Screenshots

AMD made a big deal this week about revealing what games would be using DirectX11 as a way of promoting their new ATI Radeon chips. One of those games will be S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pirpyat and this week we got the first DirectX11 screenshots from the upcoming first person shooter along with screenshots of the DirectX10 version.

See the difference? Yep, it's hard to see but the enviromental DirectX11 shots have objects generating softer and more realistic shadows than their DirectX10 counterparts. The screenshot you see above is supposed to show a "normal" DirectX10 screenshot (on the left) and the tesselation support for DirectX11 (on the right). Quite frankly the visual difference to our eyes is minimal but perhaps it looks better in a live gameplay demo.

Gallery: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat DirectX10/11 Screenshots

Tags: bitcomposer, bitcomposer-games, directx10, directx11, gsc-game-world, stalker-call-of-pripyat

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

hey at least they didn't pull a microsoft and show halo running directx 9 and crysis running directx 10.Posted at 1:15PM on Sep 25th 2009 by Sam

mehPosted at 1:25PM on Sep 25th 2009 by freeks

I though I had trouble with spotting differences in graphics of games, but I see a clear difference: Notice the filters on his mask, the DX11 cans look much more rounded, as does the brown hump on his back. Also, the lighting looks much more heavy (on the bloom) on the right. I don't necessarily think it looks better (a little too much bloom actually), but the difference is, again, quite noticeable. Posted at 3:21PM on Sep 25th 2009 by Jose

The power of tessellation. I hope more developers use DX11.Posted at 7:21PM on Sep 25th 2009 by Einhanderkiller

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