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Watch_Dogs featuring NVIDIA Technologies trailer
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Gaf is there any reason not to buy this???
GavinUK86
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Well, not a lot of people like Origin.
RadioactiveLobster
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That is obviously the WiiU version
Well it's not going to be uncompressed, is it? It could be better quality, depending on how they've encoded it.
ethomaz
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Not even close... 720p + TXAA is a blurry mess.
There is no better AA method than resolution increase... even better if you render in 4k and downsample to 1080p, you will never need AA anymore.
Solid Samus
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It's the Wii version being emulated on PC
I can tell by the pixels and boy is them some shit pixels. So flat
Stallion Free
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Oooo I hope so. Those are the best since he does lovely screenshot comparisons for each setting.
Actually, SGSSAA is better than a resolution increase, at the same number of total rendered samples.
lucebuce12
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I'll admit, I'm not particularly knowledgeable about various AA solutions, but there are things such as shimmering and temporal artifacts which can't be fixed by downsampling. You'll need to use an AA technique like TXAA or SMAA to try to get rid of them. (Downsampling and SMAA is a fantastic combo). Hell, even SSAA or SGSSAA are fantastic techniques which can be used in lieu of downsampling.
ethomaz
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I never tried SGSSAA in 4k but I think it is useless due performance cost.
Well I will take 1080p without AA over 720p with any kind of AA.
lucebuce12
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You'd apply SGSSAA at 1080p or whichever resolution you're using, not 4k ( doing that may cause even a titan to melt ).
Using Origin for Watch_Dogs is up to the customer. You can choose to buy it on Origin or not. There is also a Steam release and physical media. The game requires the UPlay service though.
e: Sorry, I missed the context of the post.
ethomaz
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Yeap... downsampling + good AA is the best choice.
My point is that a resolution increase add more for overall IQ than AA... AA is goog but it will never make a 720p better than 1080p.
Pax East is just PC, from what I've heard.
Sony has a lot of their studios there so that's not true.
Thanks! Some suggestions though:
When re-releasing material for enthusiasts, please try to request higher quality versions of the footage. The more the better. A lot of your tech has very subtle results on the macro level, and video compression along with low framerates don't allow us to see the difference. For instance, here the source file is 240MB and 30FPS, so we are hardly going to see the impact of TXAA, even though TXAA is one of the two major technologies the video is "selling". Of course 30FPS also means every camera pan on the video stutters noticeably. 60FPS would be good, 120FPS would be awesome. Less compression is better as well. I'm sure the folks here who aren't satisfied with the YT quality would be happy to download much larger files.
And, please post a download link for the actual file, since many will prefer the added control and maybe better quality vs. watching it in the Flash viewer. Here's the direct link for the current video, grabbed from your page source.
flaxknuckles
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*Uplay. origin will just supply a key.
jim2point0
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I think the new night lighting looks... kinda cheap. Overly contrasty. I did prefer the reveal... but it doesn't matter because I really don't think I'll be getting this one.
Wait wait wait. Ubisoft actually uses.... bullshots? Really?
When did they start doing this?
Wait wait wait. Ubisoft actually uses.... bullshots? Really?
When did they start doing this?
Solid Samus
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I think since the magnum opus of gaming, the pinnacle of game design which truly compelled many millions to buy in, Assassin's Creed.
plumpblumpkin
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Wow, so they're showing PC footage at PAX..
Someone please get up a full video of the demo!
Someone please get up a full video of the demo!
Just pre-ordered a Ubisoft key from G2A.com for $36.45 after tax.
https://www.g2a.com/weeklysale
What a steal.
https://www.g2a.com/weeklysale
What a steal.
UnrealEck
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It was on Origin for less than £15. Which I think is less than $36. Still a good price though.
Holy cow those bricks look freaking awful, those textures are really rough to say the least.
Someone needs to tell them the sun doesn't reflect off the ground where there are massive buildings in the way.
Solid Samus
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Holy cow those bricks look freaking awful, those textures are really rough to say the least.
And you can honestly come to both of those conclusions adequately using that screenshot or snippet of footage?
The remainder of the game appears to have good texturework to me and those bricks just look like... wet brick tiling... I don't think I can totally pass judgement there without seeing the game at a higher image quality.
DemonCleaner
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looking good. not having physical based shading really hurts though.
I meant the Watch Dogs booth.
Exploratory
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Stay on the internet long enough and you will.
RadioactiveLobster
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Someone should tell you that the sun can be higher in the sky than that building
Muppet of a Man
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It does if it is midday sun that is nearly directly overhead.
That said, the game is disappointingly downgraded from the 2012 E3 vertical slice reveal. I guess it doesn't pay to produce very high quality art assets across the board when the vast majority of the audience consuming the game will play it on hardware that is not capable of rendering it with any decent performance.
OldAsUrSock
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Durante has spoken
Solid Samus
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edit: didn't realize I was just responding to a first page drive by thread shitter
Dreams-Visions
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BRB selling PS4 for better vid card.
I'm not including those though, those are in any game with puddles or wet streets. Watchdogs included. But they don't have the realtime reflections which would really help ground things. Atm, everyone and everything look like they're floating.
No It's not? Sony are there along with loads of studios!?
May I politely ask you to read what's been posted between my quoted and your latest post?
On another note, the GeForce player is shit.
Missed that but you did not post with much ambiguity in it so easily read.May I politely ask you to read what's been posted between my quoted and your latest post?
On another note, the GeForce player is shit.
Also download the video from the link, Abit better quality.
thehillissilent
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I agree. All games that have a realistic art style going forward should use Physically Based Shading. I remember that Remember Me (https://www.fxguide.com/featured/game-environments-parta-remember-me-rendering/) was one of the first games to use Physically Based Shading and that was a last gen game and it was absolutely gorgeous especially on PC.
Okay, so apparently this PAX demo was PS4 footage. It was PS4 footage all along, Austin! They only used that beefy looking PC to show the video they recorded earlier on a PS4, lol.
Mostly, LOD bias is adjusted automatically these days though.
kriskrosbbk
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Okay, so apparently this PAX demo was PS4 footage. It was PS4 footage all along, Austin! They only used that beefy looking PC to show the video they recorded earlier on a PS4, lol.
Anyone can link me to that PAX footage? Is there any footage at all?
chickdigger802
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was it playable at pax? any impressions?
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