Bar the tessellation, which is barely noticeable anyway, there's no reason why DAII running in DX9 couldn't look as good as DX11 on High. High quality textures and anisotropic filtering are available in other DX9 games.

Dragon Age II which limits the textures to Medium quality and disables anisotropic filtering and displacement mapping! What I hate is where developers intentionally limit the DX9 options for the sake of making the DX11 ones sound more enticing, e.g. get with the times, EA, for goodness' sakes?Īnyway, as long as the game supports the features mentioned, has customisable options and looks good with AA and v-sync options plus runs at my ideal 60 fps then I'm not so bothered whether it is DX9, DX10 or DX11 to be honest. I actually laugh out loud every time I have to contact EA's awful customer support and get back a seemingly cut and paste response that the game has not been tested on Windows 7 64-bit!!! Huh.

It is disappointing to see multiformat PC games shipping with barebones options and missing anti-aliasing support then having to wait weeks or even months for patches to fix major issues because the games clearly weren't tested properly.

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