Company of Heroes to be the first game to incorporate DirectX 10

Posted Jun 1, 2007 at 8:29AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: News, Genre Tags: DirectX, Microsoft, Relic Entertainment, THQ

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Relic Entertainment's Company of Heroes will be the first game to support Microsoft's DirectX 10. You're probably wondering how this is possible considering it was released September 14 last year and with the expansion Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts already set to come out? Well, the developers released a patch which enables the game to take advantage of it.

Global Director of Games for Windows at Microsoft Kevin Unangst spoke about this move by the developers and publisher saying that "Company of Heroes took the RTS genre to an entirely new level. By delivering full support of DirectX 10, THQ and Relic Entertainment continue their tradition of innovation and leadership in PC gaming."

The said patch is reported to include significant improvements to model and map details, lighting, shadows, and overall image quality of the game. If these innovations show off the true potential of DirectX 10, then it will definitely create a stir in the gaming industry. Especially now that gamers and developers will be seeing it implemented in a full game.

That said, we haven't seen if the patch really makes a noticeable difference in the graphics of the game, but we are a bit curious regarding how much impact a patch enabling DirectX 10 can really have in it. Be sure to keep checking back here for more updates on Company of Heroes.

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# Not really — Guest 2007-06-01 09:58

Technically, the First DX10 game is Lost Planet DX10 Demo, this game does show the difference, I doubt Company of Heroes will though since it's a RTS...

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# uhmn — Guest 2007-06-01 22:34

sorry THQ, capcom beat you to it

even Halo 2 was beaten by the very first DX10 software, those are Nvidia geforce 8800 Tech Demo and Capcom's Lost Planet.

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