Tolkien rendered in DX10

"Graphzilla on the rampage

By Wily Ferret: Tuesday, 08 January 2008, 12:12 PM

LORD OF THE RINGS Online has officially become the first MMO to support DirectX 10, as its beta graphics patch goes non-beta.

The virtual world features upgraded shader effects for water, more fancy particle effects, better lighting and and few other mini tweaks. Developer Turbine reckon it has optimised the game for GeForce 8 graphics cards. The game is part of Graphzilla's TWIMTBP scheme.

Roy 'The Boy' Taylor said, "Lord of the Rings Online players can enjoy graphics as good as or even better than many FPS games. This is an outstanding achievement." Quite so, Roy.

Those playing the WoW wannabe should find the patch on its way to them right around now. µ"

I want it on DDO too......argh!!!

sad thing is, lotro needs it; when I played beta, it looked like everquest. 1.

ddo was much better then, in terms of character rendering and shading. veg could use an upgrade. and we need space in this game, but thats a content issue.

I just think that DX 10 or 10.1 is the next graphic step to take...Devs could tell us what they intend to do on DDO graphics implementations on 2008-2009, som many things changing this year on gpu front...

Bab