Five and seven months after the release of Windows Vista and the first DX10-capable graphics card (respectively), we star to see some action in the form of games and demos. First, the demo for "Lost Planet: Extreme Condition" was made available for download. Soon followed "Call of Juarez", another demo. And a few weeks later, "Company of Heroes" became the first game that will really take advantage of your DX10 graphics card. ExtremeTech uses its built-in performance test to review it.

Compared to the DX9 version, the patched one falls into the single digits at times (around a third of DX9). Average frame rates are still quite playable for a strategy game, but minimum frame rates are the ones that should stay above 20 fps not to get noticed, much more above 10 fps.

High-end cards still deliver enough performance to make the game playable, but don't expect midrange or budget DX10 cards to be able to play it, except at very low resolutions.

Perhaps, because "Company of Heroes" was developed for DX9, the DX10 patch is inefficient. Still, a trade-off of a huge drop in performance for a small visual enhancement it's hardly what you all were hoping for.

CoH gives no reason to upgrade, neither

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