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nVidia - Why We’re Investing Heavily in GameWorks

Gregster said:
Yer, the Alpha looked pretty damned good (might have been Beta). After watching this demo with all the footage taken from in-game, I want it more now :cool:


Watch on youtube and watch in 1440P if you have a capable monitor. Outstanding.
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Looking good, just hope it handles like a sim. Could be time to dust off the old G25, been stored for the last 3 years.
 
Assassin’s Creed: Unity – HBAO+, TXAA, PCSS, Tessellation
Batman: Arkham Knight – Turbulence, Environmental PhysX, Volumetric Lights, FaceWorks, Rain Effects
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel – PhysX Particles
Far Cry 4 – HBAO+, PCSS, TXAA, God Rays, Fur, Enhanced 4K Support
Project CARS – DX11, Turbulence, PhysX Particles, Enhanced 4K Support
Strife – PhysX Particles, HairWorks
The Crew – HBAO+, TXAA
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – HairWorks, HBAO+, PhysX, Destruction, Clothing
Warface – PhysX Particles, Turbulence, Enhanced 4K Support
War Thunder – WaveWorks, Destruction
 
Gregster said:
Assassin’s Creed: Unity – HBAO+, TXAA, PCSS, Tessellation
Batman: Arkham Knight – Turbulence, Environmental PhysX, Volumetric Lights, FaceWorks, Rain Effects
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel – PhysX Particles
Far Cry 4 – HBAO+, PCSS, TXAA, God Rays, Fur, Enhanced 4K Support
Project CARS – DX11, Turbulence, PhysX Particles, Enhanced 4K Support
Strife – PhysX Particles, HairWorks
The Crew – HBAO+, TXAA
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – HairWorks, HBAO+, PhysX, Destruction, Clothing
Warface – PhysX Particles, Turbulence, Enhanced 4K Support
War Thunder – WaveWorks, Destruction
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is there something sexy about that list and the features or am i just a weirdo ? :D
 
Gregster said:
I am still confused why people are whinging about being locked out of GameWorks, when clearly only PhysX and TXAA are nVidia only. GameWorks as far as I know works well on AMD. Of course AMD have their own exclusives like Mantle and Trueaudio, as well as EQAA and that is fair as far as I am concerned but lambasting nVidia as the bad guys and praising AMD as the good guys is frankly pathetic.

Both AMD and nVidia can use GameWorks and these libraries were designed to help devs out and free up time. I only see it as a good thing.
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+1
 
The turbulence in Warface is looking really good.

Overall I think the effects that are possible now are pretty good, but as has been said the games they are used in sometimes don't come up to par. Sooner or latter we will get a massive hit that uses these type of effects without all the bugs that go with it.

Oh and if you think these effects are nothing special than have a look at this from 2002 just to see how effects have come, just think where we could be in another 10 years.

 
LambChop said:
is there something sexy about that list and the features or am i just a weirdo ? :D
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I want to see what FaceWorks looks like in game and after the IRA demo that nVidia released, this could be very good. Great to see nVidia putting their money were their mouth is and putting these great effects into games and not just leaving them as fancy demo's.
 
Specs for The Crew:

Minimum:
Operating System: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8/8.1 (64bit)
Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.5 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHz (or better)
RAM: 4GB
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX260 or AMD Radeon HD4870 (512MB VRAM with Shader Model 4.0 or higher)
DirectX: DirectX June 2010 Redistributable
Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers
Peripherals: Keyboard required, XBOX 360 controller optional (or compatible controller)

Recommended:
Operating System: Windows 8/8.1 (64bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5-750 @ 2.66 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.0 GHz (or better)
RAM: 8GB
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX580 or AMD Radeon 6870 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or higher)
DirectX: DirectX June 2010 Redistributable
Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers
Peripherals: Keyboard required, XBOX 360 controller optional (or compatible controller)

Optimal:
Operating System: Windows 8/8.1 (64bit)
Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.4 GHz or AMD FX-8150 @ 3.6 GHz (or better)
RAM: 8GB
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX670 or AMD Radeon 7870 (2048MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or higher)
DirectX: DirectX June 2010 Redistributable
Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers
Peripherals: Keyboard required, XBOX 360 controller optional (or compatible controller)

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-crew-minimum-and-recommended-specs-announced/

Don't shoot the messenger.
 
Watched the demo of The Crew and it doesn't look half bad, Big open races and could be something I would like.
 
Am not a car game fan, but the Crew isn't all that bad... But they is couple issue I had when playing the Beta

Cars, all felt the same. They didn't seem to feel like they was on the road more like floating about.

All this could be fixed for full release though. I still wouldn't buy it :p
 
I played the Beta for a couple of hours, it didn't interest me, its a bit like Watch Dogs in Cars.
 
http://wccftech.com/intel-settles-15-year-class-action-lawsuit-faking-benchmarks/

Here’s the problem, when stories like this become public it’s usually too little too late. Just like in the case of this story today. If it had came out that Intel, Nvidia or AMD had manipulated benchmarks for their latest and greatest product. A far reaching uproar and outrage would certainly ensue from users. Whether they were professionals, enthusiasts, gamers or just casual users it doesn’t matter. If a person feels that they were wronged they’d make sure you hear about it.

A case and point is Nvidia’s recent venture with GameWorks. That resulted in wide disdain in the gaming community. Both gamers and game developers were very vocal about it. And all of that outrage was ignited by the mere prospect of unfair play. Had that not happened GameWorks would’ve remained the black-box that Nvidia originally created. But thanks to the pressure from the press, game development community, gamers and AMD. Nvidia has made some small but important steps towards positioning GameWorks as a tool to help developers and gamers rather than limit their power and create an anti-competitive environment.
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Pretty much sums up the suspicion I have towards this programme and goes to show cheating can be very hard to spot with billion dollar companies doing it.
 
I still don't see where they are coming from and Batman: AO was the first game that featured GameWorks and AMD had the better frames, so I fail to see what the fuss was about. If nVidia were miles better in that game, it could be something that required investigating. Next fuss that was kicked up was Watchdogs and it was a mess for both AMD and nVidia but nVidia were made to look the bad guys. I honestly feel that a mountain was made and there wasn't even a mole hill to begin with. The GameWorks supposed 'Black box' was all hyperbole kicked up by Extremetech.
 
Gregster said:
I still don't see where they are coming from and Batman: AO was the first game that featured GameWorks and AMD had the better frames, so I fail to see what the fuss was about. If nVidia were miles better in that game, it could be something that required investigating.
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Beyond the flagship cards and 8x MSAA results, the lower AMD cards all under-delivered in performance big time at lower AA settings. 7870 got its rear kicked by a much slower GTX560Ti from earth to the moon.

290x being able to keep up with GTX780 on 8x MSAA wasn't helping any AMD users that doesn't own a flagship card to overcome limitation (suffer less to be precise) with brunt force :rolleyes:
 
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