Date:
Monday , November 12, 2007
Author:
Mark Warner
Editor:
Brent Justice
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Lord of the Rings Online: DX10 Patch

Turbine's DirectX 10 client for The Lord of the Rings Online is upon us. Though the company admits that its DirectX 10 offers "minor visual upgrades," we seek to find what kind of performance penalty comes with the new DX10 code. All is not well in the land of Middle-Earth...with DX10.

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Test Setup

For our test system platform, we are using the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 with an Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 processor at 2.93 GHz, and 2 GB of OCZ DDR2-800 RAM. We are using the latest chipset drivers available and the latest BIOS at time of evaluation.

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For this comparison we are using stock, default clock speeds on all video cards. So keep in mind that factory overclocked video cards may show slightly higher performance than what you see here. This was done to give everyone a fair showing and see how the GPUs will scale. Since the 320 MB and 640 MB 8800 GTS have the same clock speeds, we will see how video RAM capacity affects The Lord of the Rings Online. We are using Windows Vista Ultimate x64 throughout our testing, and we are using the latest drivers officially available from both NVIDIA and ATI.