Epic release "Samaritan" Tech Demo

AndyOcUK · 10 Mar 2011 at 23:47

Run on heavy weight system with 3 X GTX 580 in Triple SLi.

Nothing pre-rendered - all renedered on the fly.

Only managed 30fps so might be a while before we see this level of detail day to day.

Bloody gorgeous though - and a pretty future proof bench mark.

Shame its only a video ATM

MichaelM · 10 Mar 2011 at 23:50

"The URL contained a malformed video ID."
Think I might of saw it the other day anyway.

AndyOcUK · 10 Mar 2011 at 23:53

MichaelM said:
"The URL contained a malformed video ID."
Think I might of saw it the other day anyway.

fixed

Aedus · 10 Mar 2011 at 23:53

This?

AndyOcUK · 10 Mar 2011 at 23:53

yep

defo needs to be watched in 1080p

Aedus · 10 Mar 2011 at 23:58

Just finished watching it, this is what graphics should be like, but we get held back by consoles. Urgh.

Looks amazing.

kylew · 11 Mar 2011 at 00:00

Aedus said:
Just finished watching it, this is what graphics should be like, but we get held back by consoles. Urgh.

Looks amazing.

If that takes 580 SLi to run, while being made specifically for PC, how does that mean we're held back by consoles?

jorzeh · 11 Mar 2011 at 00:02

Wow, Crysis 2 eat ya heart out this looks amazing.
3 580GTX though that's kinda hardcore Guess we won't be playing this at max settings for awhile, I like atleast 70FPS on games.

RavenXXX2 · 11 Mar 2011 at 00:07

Not bad, tech demos are never anything like what we see in game, think bioshock but nicer.

Aedus · 11 Mar 2011 at 00:09

kylew said:
If that takes 580 SLi to run, while being made specifically for PC, how does that mean we're held back by consoles?

Because it's not just this, it's all games in general looking nothing compared to what they could, this is a "Crysis" type example of needing some GPU's in 2 - 3 years time to max it properly, but there are really no games recently which ever come close to the graphics of this, because developers are lazy and just develop for the consoles with poor assed graphics and don't honestly care about graphics which the top end PC's can handle now.

We're stuck until Sony and MS release their next gens, AGAIN.

leinad amme · 11 Mar 2011 at 00:16

:O pooed my pants.

AWPC · 11 Mar 2011 at 00:16

This could easily run on a single GTX580 if they dial back some of the detail. Just because its made on 3 X GTX580 does not mean it must need those to run (Nvidia co-sponsored the demo after all & asked Epic to produce it!!!)

kylew · 11 Mar 2011 at 00:21

Aedus said:
Because it's not just this, it's all games in general looking nothing compared to what they could, this is a "Crysis" type example of needing some GPU's in 2 - 3 years time to max it properly, but there are really no games recently which ever come close to the graphics of this, because developers are lazy and just develop for the consoles with poor assed graphics and don't honestly care about graphics which the top end PC's can handle now.

We're stuck until Sony and MS release their next gens, AGAIN.

I can't see the next generation of consoles being particularly powerful at all, by the time they come out, PCs will have have advanced so much. Though to be fair, one area I think consoles do hold back multiplatform releases, is when it comes to texture resolution. I'm nearly always disappointed by the texture resolution in games.

Though the main problem really is lazy devs, I do think we will see a change with this though with how PC gaming is growing from huge, to ridiculously huge, the major devs will aim to capitalise on it soon enough, digital distribution is where it's at, and EA have recently came to terms with it, as it makes getting PC games out there so much cheaper with much higher profit margins.

PC gaming is great, but as you said (paraphrased) it really could be so much better.

leinad amme · 11 Mar 2011 at 00:23

kylew said:
I can't see the next generation of consoles being particularly powerful at all, by the time they come out, PCs will have have advanced so much. Though to be fair, one area I think consoles do hold back multiplatform releases, is when it comes to texture resolution. I'm nearly always disappointed by the texture resolution in games.

Though the main problem really is lazy devs, I do think we will see a change with this though with how PC gaming is growing from huge, to ridiculously huge, the major devs will aim to capitalise on it soon enough, digital distribution is where it's at, and EA have recently came to terms with it, as it makes getting PC games out there so much cheaper with much higher profit margins.

PC gaming is great, but as you said (paraphrased) it really could be so much better.

i saw mafia 2 on my brothers xbox today and compared to my pc it just looked HORRIBLE. jaggys everywhere. abysmal

kylew · 11 Mar 2011 at 00:39

AWPC said:
This could easily run on a single GTX580 if they dial back some of the detail. Just because its made on 3 X GTX580 does not mean it must need those to run (Nvidia co-sponsored the demo after all & asked Epic to produce it!!!)

30FPS from 3 580s says otherwise. Now I realise you have a 580, and that you really really love it a lot, but come on, let's live in reality.

kylew · 11 Mar 2011 at 00:41

leinad amme said:
i saw mafia 2 on my brothers xbox today and compared to my pc it just looked HORRIBLE. jaggys everywhere. abysmal

I've found that a lot of multi platform games do look horrible on the consoles, I think the first party ones do look really nice though, even with the lack of AA.

Andrei23 · 11 Mar 2011 at 02:22

Hey, pc games would look like s*** as well if your pc only cost £200 (which is what the xbox360 costs). Give those hard working (lazy) developers and their honest (greedy) publishers a break.

jorzeh · 11 Mar 2011 at 03:55

Andrei23 said:
Hey, pc games would look like s*** as well if your pc only cost £200 (which is what the xbox360 costs). Give those hard working (lazy) developers and their honest (greedy) publishers a break.

Not at all, Most PC games are not polished like console games, It's far easier to make software run on specific hardware then to run on a variety of hardware profiles, Which is why a lot of games look good on consoles despite having far less hardware grunt.

Also a lot of consoles are sold at a loss of the basic hardware cost, So they make the money back via licensing and software.

95thrifles · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:41

looks very sweet

AndyOcUK · 12 Mar 2011 at 09:25

jorzeh said:
Not at all, Most PC games are not polished like console games, It's far easier to make software run on specific hardware then to run on a variety of hardware profiles, Which is why a lot of games look good on consoles despite having far less hardware grunt.

Also a lot of consoles are sold at a loss of the basic hardware cost, So they make the money back via licensing and software.

Definitely!

From the launch of PS3, it was almost 11 months before Sony actually made a profit. The R & D costs were astronomical!