For Immediate Release

Moscow, Russia, September 22, 2007.
Akella presents the DX10 tech demo-benchmark of the upcoming naval action sim PT Boats: Knights of the Sea.
The final game will support both DX10 and DX9, but this demo is a demonstration of what the final game will look like in DirectX 10. The demo features all the visual effects and some of the highly detailed models that will be available in the game.
The main DX10 graphics features of PT boats: Knights of the Sea tech demo-benchmark:

• Advanced ocean rendering
• Soft particles
• Reflections, light beams and advanced transparency
• Advanced HDR for gunfire and sun reflection

Download the benchmark here (256 MB, you must have Windows Vista & DX10 video card to run)
Discuss the benchmark here
Subsim PT Boats forum here

The benchmark supports all the latest DirectX 10 graphics cards. We recommend:
ATI Radeon HD 2900 and 2600
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 and 8600

Drivers to use:
ATI: Catalyst 7.9 http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
NVIDIA: 163.71 http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html
System operation:

Windows Vista
Official internet site of Akella: www.akella.com
Official game site: www.pt-boats.net
Official game forum: http://www.pt-boats.net/enforum/

Media Contacts:
Public Relations: Irina Semenova semenova@akella.com
Tech questions: Roman Tsoy tsoy@akella.com