Little Old Man
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Crap, I need to get round to playing the Witcher! Then I can hit the EE PC version of number 2!
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Digital Foundry The Witcher 2 tech - pushing graphics into uncharted territory of war
- Thread starter Chinner
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You got 60 hours to spare?
That old lighting looks really weird and bad. It has a ton of bloom and everything is yellow shifted but is also very low contrast. You normally expect high-contrast HDR lighting and bloom to go hand-in-hand, it's almost like there was no HDR at all and they just bloomed out everything above 0.7 intensity.
New lighting is like 1 million times better.
New lighting is like 1 million times better.
First thing any PC player of TW2 should do is disable bloom.
Hmm didn't expect that! That's a real shame for PC owners because it really makes the game look better.
Nah, I tried it with bloom and without. Bloom being on still looks awful in this game and looks nothing like the 360 version.
CerebralTiger
Member
The X360 version is sub-hd?
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/122/75455870.jpg
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1637079&postcount=3112
Strange that it wasn't brought up during the tech analysis.
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/122/75455870.jpg
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1637079&postcount=3112
Strange that it wasn't brought up during the tech analysis.
nelsonroyale
Member
It is definitely more realistic, dont understand why they didnt implement it really.
Having said that it is hardly a bigger deal than the hit in texture quality between versions...the PC version still looks a lot better to me overall
100px - makes a real difference!
but they should have brought it up, it's strange indeed.
That's actually quite lot given how low the res is to begin with.
higherARC05
Banned
yep, my math skills are bad.
AgentP
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In one dimension, if it is 1194x672 then it is missing 13% of the pixels.
I'm guessing DF (Leadbetter) omitted the info for one of two reasons, he doesn't know without someone like MazerDude telling him or it reflects negatively on his favorite console.
Sucks about the resolution, but it's hardly a big deal and doesn't change the fact that this is one of best looking console games out there. I'll take a few missing pixels over the frame rate issues seen in earlier videos.
Same. I wasn't aware that the PC wasnt' getting all the new tech upgrades needed to get the game running well on the Xbox 360. I thought the new lighting was part of the EE no matter if it was the Xbox or PC version.
they never outright said it, but they did certainly imply it. either way, slightly disappointed but appreciate the large update.
At least in some of the images it looks both better and more natural in my opinion. =/ If it has better performance, that's an even bigger bonus, but maybe they lose out on shadows or something using it?
Felix Lighter
Member
That may be the case but there are definitely scenes where the game looks much more natural with the new lighting.
MoonLightWave
Member
Argh I wanted new lightning, Oh well.
Felix Lighter
Member
It would be nice to have all the best components in a single version of the game. I personally don't want to harp on it too much, though. CDProjekt Red already went above and beyond expectations and rolling the lighting changes back into the PC version may be a daunting task and there may be some undesirable side effects that we don't see in the handful of comparisons.
From virtual all reports, they did an incredible job. The only real disappoint I would have with the Xbox 360 version is the screen tearing.
From virtual all reports, they did an incredible job. The only real disappoint I would have with the Xbox 360 version is the screen tearing.