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Nvidia demo's The Witcher 3 at E3 using PhysX

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The Witcher 3 is confirmed to be 20% bigger than Skyrim and will be using PhysX (who said PhysX was dead :D).

Looks pretty darned good to me.


PhysX in action.

 
I've not even played the first or second :D
Hopefully they implement PhysX in much more than a shaggy wolf tbh :p If done right games like these would benefit hugely from PhysX, something i would probably buy into just to play with it on if you know what i mean.

That does mean i should really play some of the hundreds of games i own but never played though!
 
Same as me Tony. I have played about 3 mins of The Witcher 2 but is one of those games I want to play. I do wish they would use PhysX more and hopefully with it being used on the PS4/XBOX One?, it will be.
 
^ same here, bought it, played it long enough to decide I hated the controls, haven't played it since. might dig out the controller and give it another go. I think I've been playing skyrim too long to get used to linear again.

that does look good, although I like to think of things like this in the same way Jeremy Clarkson thinks about concept cars "if it really does look like that i'll eat my own hair"
 
Yep, Nvidia confirmed gpu physX on Xbox 1, they could enable it on the PC and let their hardware do the talking, then maybe we would see it put to proper, widespread use. :) use
 
Looks awesome, bought the first two Witchers after I got rid of my GTX 670 in September, so haven't had chance to play them yet, hopefully get through them before this badboy is released.
 
tommybhoy said:
Yep, Nvidia confirmed gpu physX on Xbox 1, they could enable it on the PC and let their hardware do the talking, then maybe we would see it put to proper, widespread use. :) use
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Xbox one and PS4 both being AMD are meant to support PhysX :confused: So it looks like we might be getting PhysX that runs better on the CPU.
Wasn't there a topic couple months back saying PhysX 3.0 will better support other hardware?
 
You guys HAVE to play the Witcher 2, its a work of art :cool:

Oh and if you want to test out your graphics cards, put 'uber-sampling' on ;)

While the fur movements on that wolf look epic, I keep coming back to the thought of 'how often in the game am I going to be staring at a wolfs fur swaying in the wind'.
 
pgi947 said:
You guys HAVE to play the Witcher 2, its a work of art :cool:

Oh and if you want to test out your graphics cards, put 'uber-sampling' on ;)

While the fur movements on that wolf look epic, I keep coming back to the thought of 'how often in the game am I going to be staring at a wolfs fur swaying in the wind'.
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It reminded me of seeing BF3's Caspian Border for the first time. I just wanted to stand and admire and in fact went as far as to go on an empty server just to take in the gorgeous details. Not many games push the boundaries for good looks but BF3 was one Tomb Raider another and Crysis 3 when you first go out into the open (crap game still).

Hopefully with PhysX being on the consoles and AMD having the GPU's in them, AMD can finally get to use it the same as Nvidia users. I am not clued up on the legality of PhysX or if it will still be an Nvidia exclusive on the PC? Maybe someone has more insight into it than me.
 
pgi947 said:
You guys HAVE to play the Witcher 2, its a work of art :cool:

Oh and if you want to test out your graphics cards, put 'uber-sampling' on ;)

While the fur movements on that wolf look epic, I keep coming back to the thought of 'how often in the game am I going to be staring at a wolfs fur swaying in the wind'.
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I've got so many games to play, just don't know which order to tackle them :D

Metro: Last Light
The Witcher 2
The Last Remnant (want to replay this)
Bioshock Infinite
Crysis 3
Assassin's Creed 3


Those are games i can think of from the top of my head, all bar TLR have zero game hours played (with the exception of benchmarking) really want to book a couple weeks off work and just slump in my chair, get down and dirty with them all :D

FF14 Beta starts in 2 days, so wanna get a few hours on that so doubt i'll ever have time to play these games fully, not with new games coming out soon. :(

Managed to play Grid 2 for 25 hours since that game has come out though! Pretty impressed with how much i've managed on it tbh, 8th most played game :D

Edit: Got my FF14 Beta dates wrong, starts the 14th!
 
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Gregster said:
Disable hardware acceleration Rossi?
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Enabled or Disabled, Chrome or IE, doesn't make a difference. Just stops a few seconds in and doesn't buffer. Been like this for a few days, other sites are fine and the connection speed is normal... :(

Edit: Re-installed flash, all is good now :)

W3 looks quite beautiful, nice.
 
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I might have jumped the gun, I took it that PhysX and Apex would be gpu accelerated on the X1, but after checking again, it doesn't specifically state on the gpu.

NVIDIA announced its support today for the Microsoft Xbox One game console with its popular NVIDIA® PhysX® and NVIDIA® APEX® software development kits (SDKs).
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"We are excited to extend our PhysX and APEX technologies to Microsoft's Xbox One console," said Mike Skolones, product manager for the PhysX SDK at NVIDIA. "We look forward to the Xbox developer community taking advantage of PhysX and APEX along with Xbox One's processing power, programmability and next-generation features to design cutting-edge games that deliver an unparalleled and ultra-realistic experience."

NVIDIA PhysX and APEX technologies are designed to run on a variety of CPU architectures and can be accelerated by any CUDA® architecture-enabled NVIDIA GPU, GeForce 8-series or higher.
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http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releas...-for-Microsoft-Xbox-One-Game-Console-997.aspx

shankly1985 said:
Xbox one and PS4 both being AMD are meant to support PhysX :confused: So it looks like we might be getting PhysX that runs better on the CPU.
Wasn't there a topic couple months back saying PhysX 3.0 will better support other hardware?
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In theory yes, but in order to plug it for what can be done, it's using gpu acceleration for the 'full' effect.

Gregster said:
I am not clued up on the legality of PhysX or if it will still be an Nvidia exclusive on the PC?
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It's Nvidia's IP, it's Nvidia's decision to keep gpu acceleration locked to Nvidia gpu's or not, unlock it and the balls in AMD's court to provide support for it, or not.

IMO, Nvidia should be able to achieve a TR Tress FX effect where their gpu's perform better as it can optimised better to suit Nvidias hardware.
 
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