Directx 11 ???? Finally work?????

[blasto]

Hmm.. Strange. With me the difference is hardly noticeable. It's there, but you really need to look for it, and even then.
The only real difference I found is in the loading speed of the graphics and that for some reason the game doesn't allow me to use antialiasing, so I need to force that in the driver if I play in DX9.
But apart from that (and the hotter cpu in DX11) they both look almost the same to me.

Do you have an early DX11 card then? I bet you're missing some bells and whistles.

DX9 spanned what, about 12 generations of GPU's? So basically, not all DX9 compatible cards were the same and that goes for the latest versions too.

 

[Gillagad]

I've got a similar setup: AMD 6950, 6gb RAM, i7-930 @ 3.6GHz, W7 64bit. No issues at all running Civ5 in DX11/10. Are you sure your drivers are updated? Nothing is overheating? And your power supply can handle your hardware (especially if you overclocked anything)?

 

[zarakand]

I had the same problem once, but windowed mode fixed it nicely.

I actually wasn't aware that many people played in fullscreen - Civ doesn't really seem the right game to play fullscreened.

I'd love to play in windowed mode, but the scrolling is what keeps me going back to full screen. In windowed mode moving your mouse to the edge of the screen (top/bottom) doesn't scroll sadly...

 

[anandus]

Do you have an early DX11 card then? I bet you're missing some bells and whistles.

Nvidia GTX460, latest drivers.
It's not one of the latest cards, and it hasn't DX11.1-support (only 600-series have that), but it isn't thát old, I think?

I've made comparable screenshots, it's zoomed in so you can see the difference, but as I said, there isn't that much.
A little crispier here and there, but nothing I'd call 'the difference between civ4 and civ5'.

DirectX9
DirectX11

Does it look a lot different on your setup?

 

[strhopper]

I'd love to play in windowed mode, but the scrolling is what keeps me going back to full screen. In windowed mode moving your mouse to the edge of the screen (top/bottom) doesn't scroll sadly...

I would too but scrolling does kill.

 

[steave435]

I'd love to play in windowed mode, but the scrolling is what keeps me going back to full screen. In windowed mode moving your mouse to the edge of the screen (top/bottom) doesn't scroll sadly...

Have you set the option to lock the mouse to the game window? I had the same problem while running in full screen on my primary monitor with something else on my second one, but setting that fixed it. I'd imagine it'd be the same for windowed.

 

[strhopper]

Have you set the option to lock the mouse to the game window? I had the same problem while running in full screen on my primary monitor with something else on my second one, but setting that fixed it. I'd imagine it'd be the same for windowed.

going to have to give this a try thanks for the heads up

 

[Androrc the Orc]

I'd love to play in windowed mode, but the scrolling is what keeps me going back to full screen. In windowed mode moving your mouse to the edge of the screen (top/bottom) doesn't scroll sadly...

I had that problem too, until I set my Windows Taskbar to "auto-hide".