Company Of Heroes DX10 patch

Relic Forums Thread

It seems that our good friends at Relic is giving some of you whom have DX10, capability of eye candy with better performance. Please with you who do have COH with DX10 based cards, to post pictures here.

Download links:

Relic Site

Moe's Download

Filefron DL

*Will add other places to DL patch from*

Please note that Patch 1.7 will go live today. It will likely happen at 11 AM PST, at which time the servers will be down to deploy the patch. This may take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour.

In order to ensure this patch works correctly, please make sure your video card is updated to the LATEST DRIVERS.
Here is the changelog:

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Company of Heroes Release Notes

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v1.70 05/29/2007

DX10 Features

- Edges of particles are softened where intersecting 3D objects.

- Thousands of additional 'litter' objects in the world.

- Improved user control over anti aliasing settings.

- Alpha to coverage anti aliasing to improve quality of alpha test objects such as shrubs.

- Lighting quality has improved by moving all calculations per pixel.

- More precise point light calculations.

- Point lights can now cast shadows.

- 3D short grass on the terrain.

- Vertical refresh synchronization is enabled by default to improve visual quality by preventing tearing of the display image, use '-novsync' to disable.

- Hardware PCF for improved shadow quality.

Other Fixes

- Various crash fixes.

- Improved hack detection.

Gameplay

- Axis Pak38 50mm accuracy modifiers vs infantry target types have been reduced.

- Allied M1 57mm AT gun accuracy modifiers vs infantry target types have been reduced.

- Certain Infantry Antitank weapons (bazookas, panzerschrecks, recoilless rifles) accuracy modifiers vs infantry target types have been reduced.

- Attack ground functionality was removed from the 234 Armored Car to fix issues enabling it to fire through shot-blocking objects.

- Tank and armoured car weapon types can no longer one-shot kill 234/Puma Armoured car and M8 Armoured Cars.

Thanks and enjoy the patch!

nice relic :D to bad i don't have a good enough graphics card *cry*

Images:

Overclock forum thread

The increase performance is what I got from another member of another site, of overclock.net.  Also, DX10 is theoretically supposed to allow better performance increase too, over DX9, with same details.

Performance increase in dx 10 shaders? lol. I ran the performance test of this game with dx10 shaders and then again with high(dx9) shaders and there was a big performance difference and not in favor of dx10..

I got about 56ave fps in dx9 mode.

and about 27save fps in dx10 mode.

The dx9 had much better lighting, I'm sure this is probably a driver issue. I'll have to update my drivers although they are only like a week or so old. :roll:

EDIT: I have the newest official drivers so looks like im sticking with dx9 for this game 

EDIT: I have the newest official drivers so looks like im sticking with dx9 for this gamecaptalchol

[QUOTE="captalchol"]EDIT: I have the newest official drivers so looks like im sticking with dx9 for this gameMakari

There is no performance gain with DX10 with this patch. Far from it, there is a huge performance hit. I mean huge hit, like not even worth it huge.

Check out Relic's official boards for many people's before and after benchmarks, its quite sad. 

[QUOTE="Makari"][QUOTE="captalchol"]EDIT: I have the newest official drivers so looks like im sticking with dx9 for this gamecaptalchol