Post by Eorl @ 10:33am 15/04/14 | 21 Comments
According to Morin, a lot of different specs will be able to run the game "at high level of detail, but for ultra you’ll need at least an Intel Core i7-4770K with a GeForce 780." Those wanting to get the exact quality from the Nvidia Tech trailer will be looking at throwing the big dollars down, with an Intel Core i7-3930k and a GeForce Titan used to record the footage. My GTX 570 is crying in the corner right now.
Luckily, it seems like AMD folks will be able to enjoy most of the quality enhancements. Morin's Twitter post revealed that while AMD video card users won't be able to enjoy Nvidia's TXAA (Temporal Anti-Aliasing), the HBAO+ (Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion) technology, while developed by Nvidia, will still work on AMD cards. Morin also weighed in on his view of why Watch Dogs is different from other open world games:
I think the biggest difference is how you interact with the world through hacking, profiling & seamless online. Pretty much everything in the game is structured around our hyper-connected city. This brings your brain to consider very different solutions in all situations. It makes you think/play in a very fresh/new ways.If that wasn't an overload of information for you, according to Morin's Twitter when invading an enemy you will have an option to actually select how your victim sees you, allowing you to be creative and unique for each invasion.
Watch Dogs is planned for release come May 27th for PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. A Wii U version is also planned for release sometime this year. Check out the Nvidia trailer below to see the PC version in action.
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Posted 10:45am 15/4/14
Posted 10:58am 15/4/14
No upgrade for me. Overkill 12 months ago is still overkill now.
Posted 10:56am 15/4/14
last edited by dewb at 10:56:38 15/Apr/14
Posted 11:37am 15/4/14
Posted 11:54am 15/4/14
I think I might upgrade to a GTX 780 Ti and put my 7970 into another dogecoin mining machine.
The sound of that gets me pretty excited.
Posted 12:52pm 15/4/14
4770k
780ti sli
16g 2400 ram
But not getting it because...
Uplay
Posted 12:57pm 15/4/14
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=ROG+SWIFT+PG278
The most exciting thing to happen in a fair while.
Posted 01:23pm 15/4/14
Posted 01:28pm 15/4/14
Would you be saying that if it came out supporting Mantle and a bunch of ATI specific features instead?
Both sides are equally bad at it, its just nobody is really picking up and running with ATI's custom stuff yet like they are Nvidia's. Theres probably games in development though using the ATI specific stuff I'd imagine.
Posted 01:34pm 15/4/14
The latest driver pushes nVidia's performance in that demo past that of AMD cards, all the while nVidia is still using that "old poxy DX11" and pulling higher numbers than AMD's card which is running this shiny low level API. -- Star Citizen didn't change at all during this time, nVidia's driver changed.
The difference here is the hardware in general. nVidia cards love high levels of Tesselation, PhysX, HBAO+ and G-Sync. AMD doesn't offer as much in this regard. TressFX in Tomb Raider was AMD tech though.
Posted 02:21pm 15/4/14
Posted 02:28pm 15/4/14
Posted 02:47pm 15/4/14
Posted 03:06pm 15/4/14
Even if it isn't in response to Mantle it is smart move anyway, the game is still a while off so a not insignificant number of cards will be bought by then and a fence sitter may just need a little push to get onto nVidias side of the fence. The R9 cards are amazing (I confess that bought one after, once again, swearing off AMD cards after my last dip in the pool, I picked up a 290 (not X) after Christmas) and nVidia showing a game that a lot of people are interested in and may watch just to see some new footage, will stimulate interest in their cards.
Getting a Watch Dogs developer on board makes sense from Ubi's side as well, after the recent storm in a teacup/controversy over a perceived drop in quality has been pushed to backs of peoples minds as they watch the game in a series of slow shots of an active city (bringing GTA trailers to mind, at least early in their trailers) looking glorious; I agree with fryzeegunner regarding the rain on the footpaths- a big change to other big, showy, action filled trailers that mend lend themselves well as advertisements of gameplay but not to what the world will be like to walk around in, something that seems encouraged based on the random crime, web cams and other procrastinations seen in some of the longer gameplay videos.
Benefits everyone except AMD? I doubt it, anyone who has one and played Bioshock Infinite and other DirectX games. One could easily leave aside BF4, which still looked good prior to the Mantle update and I am not sure there is a huge difference in actual noticeable gameplay; If someone could enlighten me, leaving fanboy bias at the door, I would appreciate it. Most articles talk about Matle generally, who lucky they were to get DICE to go along with it or benchmarks which are not real world play. They have their place but using graphs to judge gameplay is like using a tape measure to critique art. :)
Posted 03:54pm 15/4/14
+1
You can, loads of stores sell to Australia. Newegg is the latest to ship here...
Posted 04:46pm 15/4/14
Posted 04:56pm 15/4/14
I was doing a nice little write-up on Mantle for Stefanzi, but Chrome crashed my computer. I'll try again later once I know I fixed it. Chrome tearing down s***** walls. :
Posted 05:14pm 15/4/14
The night time though looks amazing especially with the weather effects, can I just play it at night time?
Posted 09:00pm 15/4/14
Posted 09:25pm 15/4/14
Posted 03:03am 16/4/14