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Probably not. SM3.0 is, for the most part, ample for most purposes. Like I said in another thread though, when you're using a g-buffer (for deferred shading), you lose the ability to do hardware RGMSAA in D3D9. Crysis 2 should use D3D10 or greater on the PC for precisely that reason.
Have you seen the Battlefield 3's trailer using the new Frostbite engine? It looks amazing and is a huge step up from DX9. DX11 features turn on in other notable games like: Metro 2033 make a huge difference in image quality. Yes, there's a performance hit but it does look beautiful.
Battlefield 3 is amazing in its youtube video in that the lightning and atmosphere makes it seem almost like an interactive hollywood or independant documentary about war-in-____. but even one step further than CoD: BO in realism by losing the blockbuster cheesiness and notable step-up in graphical fidelity. Comparin CoD: BO based of DX9 versus Battlefiend 3 based of DX11, you can immediately notice a difference in quality. These are 'real-world' games.
It allows for more sales because they are more easily accessible to the masses. More sales means more money. More money can lead to higher development costs.
LeninGHOLA said:I'm sorry, but Crysis 2 is a step back from the game they released 4 years ago graphically. Your complaining about consumers negative reaction is inane. Crytek promised all sorts of shinies to the PC gamers who made them all their money, in the end, it seems like they aren't delivering.
Are you trying to convince people they should buy the game anyway?
Everyone? This line of thinking, that all gamers and all consumers have the exact same mentality, is disturbing.
Crysis 2 looks graphically inferior to Crysis 1. Crysis 1 came out 4 years ago. People should expect more from AAA devs and AAA publishers. Judging by the reactions all over the internet right now, people DO expect more. I don't see why it would offend people like you that many of the potential customers are asking for MORE from a game. That is borderline crazy.
To say Steam doesn't improve the quality of their games is insane... Source engine has received many improvements since being released, most notably the orange box. Now tell me this isn't using an even further modified version of the orange box (and tell me it doesn't look great). From a company that revolutionized the gaming and modding industry twice IMO, you guys have the gall to complain and say their games aren't coming out fast enough or aren't good enough? I guarantee their working on Episode 3 or HL3 which is going to look amazing. It takes years for a game to be produced and they can take their sweet time if they're going to continue to produce at the level they have in the past.
Christ,when did this becomeoft Forum? All I see anymore are console users putting down PC gamers for expecting their money's worth out of the developers. Maybe it's just jealousy at having to play on antiquated hardware years behind in technology.This "settle for less and pay more for it" attitude is the major symptom of creeping consolitis. You'll gladly fork over $60 for games that aren't half as good as they could have been,then slam us for complaining.
We don't want to comment on EA's release plans as that is a topic better addressed to EA.
Also, I am not aware of any public presentation by any employee of NVIDIA that would have discussed either Crysis 2 launch plans or GTX 590. There are some NDA sneak peak things happening at CEBIT...but no formal briefings that I am aware of.
I'll give you a heads up as soon as briefings start for any new high-end GPUs from NVIDIA.
No need to slam console players over this.
PC players who put up with this kind of shit are the one who piss me off.
No need to slam console players over this.
PC players who put up with this kind of shit are the one who piss me off.
Honeslty it doesnt matter as long as the game looks good and kicks ass
I've never seen anyone praise Valve for using DX9.With the exception of Valve, that can continue using DX9 and will actually be praised for using it!
I've never seen anyone praise Valve for using DX9.
I've never seen anyone praise Valve for using DX9.
And I'm still waiting for screenshots of a game set in a city with better looking graphics than Crysis 2.
want to get back at crytek for shitting all over PC gamers, and giving us a lackluster crysis 2?
dont buy it, save that money for a few months, and lets make Battlefield 3 the biggest fucking game in *years*.
seriously.... I never buy games when they first come out, or at full price... ever.....
but as long as the reviews are good, BF3 is a day one buy for me (and I wasn't even a fan of BF2 or 1...)
Show me the thread(s).You missed the threads where it was discussed how well new Source Engine based games were running on current machines...DX9 was mentioned.
to be fair there are ports done properly and thrown together ports. I don't particularly care if its a multiplatform game, or even if the pc version drops a bit later. but if its coming to pc make use of the hardware at hand.
i think the future of pc is actually in smaller studios and direct digital releases of smaller studios. as for big studios, of course they are going to follow console gamers...have you spent a significant amount of time with mainstream console gamers (i have consoles, but i really only play jrpgs, and rockband when people are over)? i think they pretty much are the living example of the phrase "a fool and his money are soon parted". The marketing machine can make them throw down 60 bucks for damn near anything.
With the exception of Valve, that can continue using DX9 and will actually be praised for using it!
Why?
This is all good and all but then you will have the community complaining about bugs that have not been patched yet and they will vow to never buy a BF game again and whine whine whine and then EA will say, fuck this, we are going consoles only, at least console players actually play the games and do not complain about how the game has minor bugs.
Show me the thread(s).
Undiscerning consoletards are the reason gaming is going downhill so rapidly. If they'd stop eagerly lapping up DLC, motion controllers, and shitty $60 games, the industry would be forced to change directions.
I just want to see what happens when the DX11 patch comes out. It will be one or both of the following scenarios.
1) The game will run poorly and people will complain that they have to run it in DX9 because it runs too slow in DX11. Of course they will blame Crytek for poor coding (we have heard this one before).
2) There will be little visual improvements just as people in the know have been saying. Once again, tons of PC gamers will complain if this thread is any indication.
Probably both will come true.
You're unwilling to put forth the effort? I'm unsurprised.Pretty old threads in the "General Gaming" or "PC Gaming & Hardware" sub-forums. Just use search with those search terms and you should eventually find them. They were related with TF2 and/or L4D.