Dawn Demo - When will games look like that?

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ndee

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I know, all you guys already saw the fairy demo but I just saw it the first time today. Holy crap, imagine games with such graphics, that would rock. How far away are we from games like that?
 
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Originally posted by: ndee
I know, all you guys already saw the fairy demo but I just saw it the first time today. Holy crap, imagine games with such graphics, that would rock. How far away are we from games like that?
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Not very far at all. The generation of games after Doom 3 and Half Life 2 will be sporting visuals like that. Say, 1 to 1.5 years from now before the first games of that crop begin to come out.
 
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Robor

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The screenshots look awesome but before I go and download this I want to know if I should bother. I've got a Sapphire 9800 (now pro). Since this is an Nvidia demo is it going to work well/at all on ATI hardware?
 
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Brian48

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Originally posted by: TheSnowman
i don't think that wrapper works with the 3.7 drivers though.
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That's not a problem, just take the opengl driver (atioglxx.dll) from an earlier Cat version and dump it into the same folder as the Dawn .exe. The demo will then use this driver instead of the one installed with Cat 3.7.


 
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IQfreak

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Originally posted by: tenoc


When will I have a gf that looks like that! :beer:
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When genetic engineering reaches the mainstream consumer market, and you obtain a hair from the girl of your choice and splice it with an insect. Just hope that you get it right on the first try, because a wrong combination might be a little off-putting. :)
 
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Czar

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Originally posted by: IQfreak
It supposedly works better on ATI cards. You need an OpenGL wrapper to get it working:

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tried it long time go, worked, was fast, detail was lacking compared to the nvidia cards because the wrapper didnt do all the stuff it was supposed to

take a look at ati tech demos, like the monkey one, thats amazing, screw dawn gimme da monkey ;)
 
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I get a "Unsupported features: NV_point_sprite" error with a 9500NP softmodded to a 9700. I did put the opengl32.dll into the bin file.

That's not a problem, just take the opengl driver (atioglxx.dll) from an earlier Cat version and dump it into the same folder as the Dawn .exe. The demo will then use this driver instead of the one installed with Cat 3.7.
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Does anyone know if this will fix my problem?
 
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Robor

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(sigh) I'm running the 3.7 Cat's on a fresh load so I don't have a previous version of that .dll. Oh well, enough time invested (shift-del). Probably more beautiful things I can find to drool over on the web with a lot less effort. ;) :p :Q
 
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clicknext

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I remember the Radeon's Ark demo. That was pretty amazing when it came out, and it looks to me like only now do we have games that look as good as that. So I think that it will take a long time for games to start looking like the Dawn demo.
 
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Thanks Brian. I must be one of the few people that haven't seen Dawn in action. I gotta dnload Winrar too. I'll let y'all know how it goes.
 
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Originally posted by: clicknext
I remember the Radeon's Ark demo. That was pretty amazing when it came out, and it looks to me like only now do we have games that look as good as that. So I think that it will take a long time for games to start looking like the Dawn demo.
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Not thinking clearly are we?

Remember, Half-Life and Unreal are only 5 years old, and they look HORRID compared to today's games. Photorealism in appearance is only about 4 - 6 years off. Ask Tim Sweeney or John Carmack.

True interactive photorealism, involving completely lifelike physics, randomness, animation, etc is still a good ways out there. But games will look like movies within the next 5 years. I'd bet money on it.

 
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Brian48

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Originally posted by: Jeff7181
I don't see what you're talking about...
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You don't notice something conspicuously "missing" from Dawn's attire?
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MatthewF01

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now why do you have to go 'dirtying' up a perfectly good screenshot with these 'OOPS' and 'CENSORED' boxes... c'mon, Im trying to enjoy computers at their finest!


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