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AMD's "tressfx" unveiled; Lara can take care of her own hair [DX11 compute]
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Oh, it's out on the 5th? Haha... didn't realise.
petethepanda
Member
Has anyone actually said that this will be in the game at launch? The lack of video this close to release makes it seem like it'll be patched in sometime down the line.
legacyzero
Banned
toddhunter
Member
Lots of people have played the PC version based on steam achievements.
Seems strange that there is still nothing.
Yea, this blows for us.
MoonLightWave
Member
Edit: My bad, sorry. My point is that's unlockable even though it runs through the CPU and you don't have to a Nvidia card to run PhysX hence "unlocking on AMD cards" typo. It just came out wrong.
Angelus Errare
Banned
When is the earliest this game can be unlocked via VPN?
I think about 2pm GMT tomorrow via Australian VPN? At least that's when I will be having a go!
toddhunter
Member
Yeah supposed to be in about 15 hours.
I don't think the hair will be in it from the start....we will see.
Really, how? I've seen people mistakenly think that enabling PhysX means their AMD card is running it, except the CPU is doing the calculations.
Yes, single-threaded CPU support. :-/ It would be much better if nvidia would enable multi-threading [physx absolutely supports it]
C'mon, they can't cockblock people if they start making the experience uniform for everybody
At least ArmA 3 will feature CPU PhysX.
( I sound like a butthurt AMD fan, despite being a diehard Nvidia boy - PhysX is fairly wank )
TouchMyBox
Member
Perhaps he means that it is possible to have an AMD card while using a nvidia card dedicate for PhysX?
C'mon, they can't cockblock people if they start making the experience uniform for everybody
At least ArmA 3 will feature CPU PhysX.
( I sound like a butthurt AMD fan, despite being a diehard Nvidia boy - PhysX is fairly wank )
Lot of PC and console games [even wii] have PhysX for ordinary collision calculations of some specific usages [car handling calculations in shift1/2/pCARS].
I know but it's just as easy to implement advanced PhsyX feature thus blocking out AMD users from a good experience. So commendable that developers choose the CPU route for everyone.
"Unlock PhysX ON AMD cards" doesn't sound like a post about dedicated PhysX cards to me.
Why is only the hair moving?
Because it's a graphical showcase / benchmark where you can pause stuff.
Summary Man
Member
I feel as though I've been seeing hair physics demos for years now. Is there any chance of this feature being standard anytime soon?
Meccanical
Member
ThreePiMatt
Member
Its times like this where we recognize the real tragedy in Triple H cutting his hair.
It was rhetorical. I know why, but it just looks wrong.
Yup, Sims 4 is the first thing I thought of when I saw this. Put that on the high-res consumer version of oculus rift with next gen graphics and we'll have some serious Lotus Eater Machine problems.
Well the fact that they're partnering with AMD for that live stream of TR makes me think that TressFX will be available at launch. Otherwise it'd be kinda awkware:
"Yeah, so we have so-and-so from AMD here to tell us all about this awesome feature you can't enable yet in this game we're playing right now!"
"Yeah, so we have so-and-so from AMD here to tell us all about this awesome feature you can't enable yet in this game we're playing right now!"
Fried Food
Banned
this image is so funny and amazing at the same time.
no more nariko hair.
the hair in this looks way better than anything in the tomb raider shots, and looks better than the agni demo
The hair also looks oily in that shot.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Ew, physics on CPUs.
Meccanical
Member
It's a real photo of an actual person...
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
All Valve shows is percentages and the only people who have been able to play the game so far is devs so it stands to reason that the achievement percentages would be decent.
indigo-cyclops
Member
I find the lighting more impressive than the hair.
That's a great demo, and the figure on that faerie...>_>
toddhunter
Member
Bit of a cross post...but tressfx is in for the PC launch and we have quick and dirty gifs http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=48906090&postcount=3555
It is ... kind of underwhelming in performance and effect :|
Maybe if she let her hair out...
It is ... kind of underwhelming in performance and effect :|
Maybe if she let her hair out...
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Based off the impressions from TR thread this sounds like it could be a true spiritual successor to Physx in terms of poor implementation!
Will it also rival PhysX's poor performance? That's a must.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I don't know if anyone has done a proper bench of it yet. Personally, I'm relieved because I feel no pressure to use it anymore to get the best experience visually at the risk of performance issues.
toddhunter
Member
Gifs from the benchmark:
Losing about 20fps with it on
Losing about 20fps with it on
Gif from the benchmark:
Losing about 20fps with it on
Like in 40 to 20 or in 200 to 180? What pc?
I like it.
toddhunter
Member
AMD 6950 benchmark goes from 58 to 38 (latest standard driver).
So still more than playable.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=48909348&postcount=25
What's your CPU, toddhunter? And did you unlock your 6950?
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
20 fps hit seals the deal on me not using it.
Felix Lighter
Member
It's a start but the force field effect around the shoulders really kills it for me. Hopefully, whatever they are doing to prevent the hair from clipping into the body can be done more precisely.
Sure it can be done, but this kind of highly exact collision for soft bodies is really expensive (in terms of performance I mean).
I guess this should show everyone why current gen characters are either bald, have short hair or have bad hair. Tressfx doesn't seem to be highly optimized yet, but it's also not a matter of hair like this ever being "free" or even cheap to use in a game.
"Oh wow that looks amazing"
*Starts up game*
FlyswatterFX.