AMD's next big Mantle Game

humbug · 13 Apr 2014 at 03:49

Beyond Earth

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/beyond-earth-takes-civilization-to-the-stars/1100-6418906/

http://www.gametrailers.com/news-post/73123/sid-meiers-civilization-goes-sci-fi-with-beyond-earth

In addition to its use of DirectX 11, Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth will be among the first wave of products optimized for the latest in AMD graphics technologies, including: the new Mantle graphics API, for enhanced graphics performance; AMD CrossFire™, for UltraHD resolutions and extreme image quality; and AMD Eyefinity, which allows for a panoramic gameplay experience on up to six different HD displays off of a single graphics card.

http://www.techspot.com/news/56376-...-is-sid-meiers-civilization-beyond-earth.html

AMD has scored another win for their Mantle API, with upcoming title Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth to support it alongside DirectX 11. Previous Civilization titles, such as Civilization V, were reasonably CPU intensive, so the reduced CPU overhead and lower-level features of Mantle should help gamers run the game on entry-level hardware including AMD's own APUs.

triss · 13 Apr 2014 at 04:55

Nice video but not my sort of game. Good to see more mantle titles !

Gregster · 13 Apr 2014 at 05:08

A shame they didn't show anything of the game but I will be getting this.

Silent_Scone · 13 Apr 2014 at 07:04

An RTS could be exactly what Mantle needs.

Kaapstad · 13 Apr 2014 at 07:15

MjFrosty said:
An RTS could be exactly what Mantle needs.

It will probably be turn based the same as the original.

I will be getting it too.

Marine-RX179 · 13 Apr 2014 at 07:33

MjFrosty said:
An RTS could be exactly what Mantle needs.

Ah no...you are saying this the wrong way round. Mantle is exactly what RTS games needed and never had. Try harder next time.

Silent_Scone · 13 Apr 2014 at 07:38

Kaapstad said:
It will probably be turn based the same as the original.

I will be getting it too.

Ah yes. I got muddled whilst imagining a 3D Civ

Marine-RX179 said:
Ah no...you are saying this the wrong way round. Mantle is exactly what RTS games needed and never had. Try harder next time.

lol

LtMatt · 13 Apr 2014 at 07:55

A nice coup for Mantle i think. Never played these games but ill pay attention from here on in.

Kaapstad · 13 Apr 2014 at 08:02

LtMatt said:
A nice coup for Mantle i think. Never played these games but ill pay attention from here on in.

Civ 5 which this could be based on has a nasty bug that makes it very difficult to play a game on a huge map when getting toward the end. I think what happens is you get a huge bottleneck and in the end tile improvements don't appear where they should, eventually the game won't even load. It will be interesting to see how Mantle deals with this.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 13 Apr 2014 at 12:04

It will be interesting to see how his pans out. If Mantle can improve CPU utilisation in an RTS game,imagine what happens when DX12 comes out??

It might good times ahead for RTS players.

Kaapstad · 13 Apr 2014 at 12:07

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It will be interesting to see how his pans out. If Mantle can improve CPU utilisation in an RTS game,imagine what happens when DX12 comes out??

It might good times ahead for RTS players.

I don't think this will be a RTS game.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 13 Apr 2014 at 12:18

Kaapstad said:
I don't think this will be a RTS game.

You means its turned based like Civ5??

Ah,OK.

OTH, I agree about Civ5 having performance issue at the end - I remember the large world maps can cause issues after a couple of dozen hrs.

Gregster · 13 Apr 2014 at 12:44

Kaapstad said:
Civ 5 which this could be based on has a nasty bug that makes it very difficult to play a game on a huge map when getting toward the end. I think what happens is you get a huge bottleneck and in the end tile improvements don't appear where they should, eventually the game won't even load. It will be interesting to see how Mantle deals with this.

Strange Kaap, as all I play is huge maps and never had issues.

Frenzy · 13 Apr 2014 at 13:03

I play huge maps and don't have problems

I can't wait for this, I always hoped they would release an expansion for civ 5 which let you expand off planet once you launch the space station!

Martini1991 · 13 Apr 2014 at 13:04

If Mantle really wants to show it's got what it takes, it needs putting in Rome 2.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 13 Apr 2014 at 13:05

Well the last time I ran Civ5 was when I had a SB Core i3. I have a Core i5 now,so maybe it will run better.

But with the Core i3 after 20 hours on a large world map,things started to chug a bit!!

Frenzy · 13 Apr 2014 at 13:20

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Well the last time I ran Civ5 was when I had a SB Core i3. I have a Core i5 now,so maybe it will run better.

But with the Core i3 after 20 hours on a large world map,things started to chug a bit!!

This should help for late game cat

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=220250184

I think the game plays animations even if it is off screen..

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 13 Apr 2014 at 13:30

Frenzy said:
This should help for late game cat

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=220250184

I think the game plays animations even if it is off screen..

Ohhh! Thats look interesting. Thanks! :cool:

Kaapstad · 13 Apr 2014 at 17:03

Gregster said:
Strange Kaap, as all I play is huge maps and never had issues.

You have got to build an absolutely huge civilization with loads of cities.

arc@css · 13 Apr 2014 at 17:17

Good to see another title use mantle, though it isn't my sort of game / genre.