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Alex Voicu from the Rage3D crew has a very interesting article posted this morning that uncovers one of the first seen DX 10.1 benefits that have been tracked down in a real game. Kudos to Alex for the sharp eye! A great read for you GPU information hungry guys.
As it were, between two separate sessions, Service Pack 1 got uninstalled. Intent on resuming our trek through the Kingdom of Heaven, we were quite surprised to notice that performance got perceivably worse on our 3870X2 using rig, in spite of the only different thing being the lack of SP1 (all other available updates were installed after uninstalling SP1). Since SP1 was never proven to be the ultimate performance enhancer, it was quickly discarded as the possible reason for the sudden loss of performance. After quite a bit of useless tinkering trying to figure out what went wrong, whilst going through some whitepapers these two slides seemed to suggest an unexpected yet obvious answer: