where's Baghdad Bob Prime1 when nvidia needs him?
"dx10.1 is useless, there's nothing to see here, move along, physx is more important even though you drastically lose framerate and there is no improvement to gameplay."

And more unforgettable Baghdad Bob quotes:
"Here is an unbiased review site that proves beyond a doubt that the 260 is faster than the 4870x2: www.nvidia.com" and, "All 260's ever made can overclock 100+ Mhz on the GPU and RAM."

Wait, I thought Far Cry 2 had a DX10.1 path. That not so?

I have seen this before ... AMD released a hot-fix for Crysis so that we all could enjoy the game while it was on sale during the Christmas season. Now they are doing it again by jumping on FarCry 2 and to profit from the popularity this game will have (or already has). Not a bad idea.

The last time they did it, however, they left a lot of other problems unsolved and made me buy Nvidia. Needless to say that I wish for solid drivers more than I wish for hot fixes.

The 4870,according to PCGH.com, beats the 216core by a decent margin even at 1920 res.And that's not even on DX10.1. I think the Radeons are going to kick some asses badly in Ubisoft's new games.Especially, if they all are DX10.1 compatible.
I heard Dead space is Dx10.1 too......

German tech site PC Games Hardware has somehow benchmarked the hotfix in Far Cry 2, and it reports 83-97% performance gains for a Radeon HD 4870 X2 in DirectX 9 mode.

Uh, wow.

If those benchmarks are legit it seems like I might be able to get away with playing on high in 1920 with a 8800gt :D

But does it run Crysis @ 2600x1600 with 16AA 16AF at 200fps?

Well, at least we know they work with game developers before they release the game!

Yeah, I saw this hotfix before but I still don't have FC2 yet. :-p

reading comprehension hdfsise. It's a nice thing.

Meanwhile, I'd like to see the benchmarked diff and for someone to pick through what was changed.