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The Witcher 3 supports new fancy Nvidia tech.
- Thread starter Sentenza
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I would not put it pass CDPR.....
TouchMyBox
Member
Nvidia released a driver that fixed the stuttering for me... A week after I finished playing it.
Maybe they will use this tech for Geralt's chest and back hair......
Because AMD doesn't do proprietary crap like Nvidia. They use OpenCL. Nvidia is the one being anti-consumer here. This is obviously in direct response to Tressfx (timing cause I know the PhysX effect is older), yet doing it the wrong way by making it proprietary when it doesn't have to be (ala PhysX).
That's not the same thing going in here. There are some AMD partnered games that run better on Nvidia hardware. I don't think DICE just turned up an effect that made it struggle on Nvidia products. On the flip side, when it was exposed early into the DX11 /tessellation revolution that the Nvidia implementation was vastly superior to AMDs, some 'TWIMTBP' (Nvidia sponsored) titles cranked up the tessellation to absurd levels so there would be a huge void in performance between the brands. There was usually no difference visually between medium and this extreme tessellation.
This fur tech looks great, but it should be OpenCL.
Origami Superman
Member
That is one shiny pooch.
I see this little conspiracy theory tossed about every now and again, but are there any examples aside from Crysis 2, which had tessellation so haphazardly applied it also dramatically affected performance on Nvidia hardware?
Sentenza
Member
Completely deserved.
I concur.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
AMD honor guard here.
Bloody Nvidia and their god' darn' PhysX hobnobbin'....
Bloody Nvidia and their god' darn' PhysX hobnobbin'....
Crysis 2
HAWX 2
Titles had extreme tessellation performed on flat surfaces that would remain otherwise 'flat'. I guess I should have said a couple/few games but they were very popular sellers. AMD can at least be transparent without the proprietary physx angle.
Dictator93
Member
It is not true even in Crysis 2s case... it has been explkained numerous times why that form of tesselation is not performance intensive and how wire frame mode in the game gets rid of culling and performance optimizations.
Hate this shit.
Subdivision tesselation is far from performance intensive at all. Check out Maldos blog how it has nominal performance implications for almost all modern hardware.
Felix Lighter
Member
The also won The Best of E3 award from Felix Lighter!
Seeing as how both consoles are powered by AMD I can't fathom why CD Projekt Red would decide to go with Physx. They are either going to have to rebuild these effects for the consoles, completely remove them, or fix Physx. Obviously as someone with an AMD card I hope they fix Physx because I fucking hate this bullshit technology that runs like a complete turd and wouldn't be utilized by anyone if not for moneyhats.
Gumbie
Member
Was there a separate demo or are you talking about the one at Microsoft's event?
Sentenza
Member
I'm talking about the "behind closed doors" press presentation they had.
I don't even know if that was the same thing they showed during the MS event.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Nvm, got quote linked from another thread. I thought I was posting in that thread. :lol
Runs fine for me every time I enable it. Also, after seeing that wolf, it doesn't look like bullshit tech to me.
Sentenza
Member
A Nvidia tech demo/The Witcher 3 on PC?
It's in the OP. Hell, it's actually what this topic is all about.
gengame.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/WiiU_DKCountry_scrn01_E3-690x388.jpg
The new Donkey Kong on Wii U sports some really neat fur FX.
It's not quits as advanced as this stuff but still may be one of the best example until those NV-FX games hit.
So far, I've not seen really high quality vids, but from what you can make out, the fur is pretty impressive, looking a bit matted in some areas and it even sways under harsh movement. Unfortunately, due to necessary camera angles, it's often too far out of focus to appreciate.
The new Donkey Kong on Wii U sports some really neat fur FX.
It's not quits as advanced as this stuff but still may be one of the best example until those NV-FX games hit.
So far, I've not seen really high quality vids, but from what you can make out, the fur is pretty impressive, looking a bit matted in some areas and it even sways under harsh movement. Unfortunately, due to necessary camera angles, it's often too far out of focus to appreciate.
iNvid02
Member
Nvidia released a driver that fixed the stuttering for me... A week after I finished playing it.
yeah the stuttering was resolved and new drivers bought FPS improvements, albeit minimal ones. but the game did not run at a steady 60fps for me on a 690, certain areas would guarantee frame rate dips and snow would be murderous at times.
there was a 100 page plus thread on their forums with absolutely no acknowledgment from anyone, it was quite disgusting actually. thats the end of blindly buying AC on PC for me.
Sentenza
Member
Didn't bother playing AC3 because I simply have a fierce distaste for the franchise, but have yo uconsidered the idea that the issue could be related to your hard disk more than to your GPU/drivers?
It can happen with games that rely a lot on data streaming and constant access to the HD.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Yeah, oops, I clicked the link of the quote but it was in another thread and I didn't realize I had hopped threads haha.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/13/e3-2013-the-witcher-3-defines-next-gen
Awesome article. E3 2013: The Witcher 3 Defines Next-Gen
Awesome article. E3 2013: The Witcher 3 Defines Next-Gen
Megapsychotron
Banned
The Witcher 3 will consume most of my time next year. I loved the first two (I still need to do Yorveth's path in W2), and Witcher 3 looks to be coming in off the scales. I think it will be the first game to officially get 11/10 from IGN/Gamestop/GAFers.
Lol, I was thinking the same thing. Some reputable review site has to throw out an 11/10 at some point.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
I don't even know how to respond to this.
I'm actually having trouble digging up performance comparisons as virtually all of them compare pre-patch Crysis 2 with post-patch Crysis 2 inclusive of all the bells and whistles, which doesn't help since the patch added much more than just tessellation. The only Nvidia one I've found is Maldo's, and although in the end he only compared a single scene using a single GPU, it does suggest that the performance impact on Nvidia hardware isn't noticeable. I did find this unflattering AMD comparison, though, which, looking at the site, I may have misremembered as an Nvidia comparison.
Technosteve
Banned
Does this mean Open CL sucks at physics sim? Cuda wins?
Sentenza
Member
Gumbie
Member
Dat fire. I have a 670 now but I will be upgrading for this next year.
I think this video is mislabeled, I don't believe that anything except the fur should be NV only.
Really impressive tech though, and a beautiful game.
No, that means NVidia wants to push their own cards with this tech by keeping everything proprietary and CUDA based. OpenCL is awesome at physics, it's basically open CUDA. CUDA came one or two years before OpenCL, that's all.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Dat silky smooth pelt. I doubt we can have that ingame with tons of other important additions to games like cloth physics and good DoF at the same time for a long time, though.
That Gif LOL
cobragt4001
Banned
I have two 670s myself and I think by the time that comes out nvidia would had already released the maxwell gpus and I plan to rock two 870s with one of my 670s as a physx card.
I bet that wolf could run Crysis
iNvid02
Member
i just throw all my games onto the SSD, it had the latest firmware and disk benchmarks were fine etc so i ruled that out. i tried a lot of different things but nothing worked, and after the massive thread on their forums with so many having the same issues i put it down to just another unoptimized port
The Hermit
Member
my gpu (gtx670) wept when I tried ubersampling o W2. It will explode with this shit