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Lost Planet 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition which is also made by Capcom, taking place ten years after the events of the first game, on the same fictional planet. The game was developed for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. Originally set to be released in early 2010, Capcom delayed the game’s consoles release to May 11, 2010 in North America and Europe and May 20, 2010 for Japan, and the Windows release for October 12, 2010.
Capcom and NVIDIA have recently released a preview of Lost Planet 2 that runs in either DirectX 9 or DirectX 11 mode. This release allows users to determine if their hardware is suitable enough to achieve good performance when the game is released in October 2010. They have included 2 series of tests. The first is a 3 part test that uses scenes from different areas within the game. While the 2nd test pushes the DirectX 11 features to their maximum. While we normally dont use a pre defined benchmark script to determine our numbers, we decided to add it today because of the fact that it tests DirectX 11 features.
The results of the testing show that the 1st and 2nd scene scale as one would expect. When we run the 3rd scene test the numbers don't seem to jive. Our highest average and minimum frame rate was scored with the DirectX 11 features set to their highest level. We ran each test 5 times to make sure we report the correct numbers presented by tests. Chances are this is the result of fine tuning of the drivers since the release of this benchmark.
