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DX10: Anno 1404 - Dawn of Discovery

DX10: Anno 1404 - Dawn of Discovery

I have been playing this excellent RTS, ever since the first Anno in the series launched many years ago. Heck, I had a ton of fun with the original game series like Anno 1602 and 1701. If you're unfamiliar with the Anno series of games, they have all been (1404 is the 3rd sequel) colony-builders that take place in vast archipelagos filled with pirates, natives, treasures, and rival colonies. Typically, players start with a single ship packed with essential goods with which they colonize a single island, and then need to expand their realm.

With the same principles and philosophy yet more trading dynamics in-game, this series changed a little. Next to that the graphics engine had an overhaul allowing a DX10 code path, brushing up and speeding up things here and there while pertaining really nice image quality.

For our test with Anno 1404 we:

  • enable everything 
  • enable the highest possible image quality settings
  • enable DirectX 10 mode
  • enable 4x Anti-Aliasing
  • use campaign build mode and have built three islands with extensively sized cities

Shameful, horrible, blaaaaah!! On neither of the cards did we get playable framerates, meaning the driver profiles are not there or did not kick in. Imagine spending 1200 EUR on cards and 600 EUR on monitors alone and your fav game is not working like shown above!

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