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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 uses DirectX 11 features. The first group of tests allow us to select which level of DirectX 11 features are tested,we can choose between None, Low, Medium or High.
HIS HD 5830
HIS HD 5850
With the DX 11 settings on low the HIS 5830 was able to maintain average frame rates in the 30's at 1920×1080 resolution with an average of 31.9 spread across the 3 tests. The results of the first test were the highest with a minimum of 24 FPS, the second test our minimum dropped to 22 FPS and only 18 FPS in the 3rd test.
Since this is not the final product this test may not offer a true representation of actual performance level on 5000 series cards seeing that it was released by NVIDIA after all. After doing more testing with this benchmark I am convinced that it is more of a NVIDIA product showcase then a true apples to apples benchmark since the 5850 only managed an average of 34.7 FPS with DX11 settings on low.
