New Crytek and ATI tech demo

[Todd33]

http://tinyurl.com/6yoj4

Report back!

 

[gururu]

let's see:
register and download (for the German literate)
or
pay to download
or
download at 20kb/s

Somebody report back!

 

[VIAN]

Well, I'll be Dling it at 20kbps, see you back in about 2 hours.

 

[OnEMoReTrY]

Woops thought it'd already been posted in this forum, guess not. Here's the official mirror http://www2.ati.com/misc/crytek/theprojectv1-0.exe enjoy!

 

[OnEMoReTrY]

Here's a link to a thread with some really nice 2048*1536 maxed screenshots for your viewing pleasure http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=839551

 

[Acanthus]

Looks like HDR lighting in the crytek shot, wonder if SM2.0+ HDR is on the way?

 

[OnEMoReTrY]

I've already had about a day to mess with this demo, SM 2.0b is turned on, 3Dc is not by default but when turned on increases speeds dramaticly I assume because it was coded from the beginning using 3Dc and not just added later. Also in the config file HDR is turned off by default for some reason, it will say by default.
r_HDRBrightOffset = "6.000000"
r_HDRBrightThreshold = "3.000000"
r_HDRLevel = "3.000000"
r_HDRRendering = "0"
Set r_HDRRendering = "1" to turn HDR on. It's very overbright so you will have to mess with the settings but it looks amazing, I think they are using some new optimized form of HDR for ati cards in this demo because in my opinion it looks equal to or better then whats already in Far Cry. And no the screenshots I linked you to have no HDR, just HDR like effects. You'll have to turn it on through the config, and it is quite stunning.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: OnEMoReTrY
I've already had about a day to mess with this demo, SM 2.0b is turned on, 3Dc is not by default but when turned on increases speeds dramaticly I assume because it was coded from the beginning using 3Dc and not just added later. Also in the config file HDR is turned off by default for some reason, it will say by default.
r_HDRBrightOffset = "6.000000"
r_HDRBrightThreshold = "3.000000"
r_HDRLevel = "3.000000"
r_HDRRendering = "0"
Set r_HDRRendering = "1" to turn HDR on. It's very overbright so you will have to mess with the settings but it looks amazing, I think they are using some new optimized form of HDR for ati cards in this demo because in my opinion it looks equal to or better then whats already in Far Cry. And no the screenshots I linked you to have no HDR, just HDR like effects. You'll have to turn it on through the config, and it is quite stunning.

I sincerely hope its optimised for ATI, because NVIDIA cards run SM3.0, it wouldnt make any sense for them to NVIDIA optimise a codepath that had to be custom made for ATI.

 

[OnEMoReTrY]

Here's a thread with some HDR pics using an x800 card.http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18668

 

[Insomniak]

Not that impressive.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: OnEMoReTrY
I've already had about a day to mess with this demo, SM 2.0b is turned on, 3Dc is not by default but when turned on increases speeds dramaticly I assume because it was coded from the beginning using 3Dc and not just added later. Also in the config file HDR is turned off by default for some reason, it will say by default.
r_HDRBrightOffset = "6.000000"
r_HDRBrightThreshold = "3.000000"
r_HDRLevel = "3.000000"
r_HDRRendering = "0"
Set r_HDRRendering = "1" to turn HDR on. It's very overbright so you will have to mess with the settings but it looks amazing, I think they are using some new optimized form of HDR for ati cards in this demo because in my opinion it looks equal to or better then whats already in Far Cry. And no the screenshots I linked you to have no HDR, just HDR like effects. You'll have to turn it on through the config, and it is quite stunning.

Taken from the HardOCP Link:

Use these settings to get HDR to run on the ATI cards and not be blindingly bright (changes on the last two lines):

r_HDRBrightOffset = "6.000000"
r_HDRBrightThreshold = "3.000000"
r_HDRLevel = "1.000000"
r_HDRRendering = "1"


So, I ran this demo and it's not terribly impressive; it looks cool but all of Far Cry looked like this, essentially (minus the cool motion blur effects). What irks me is that HDR works perfectly fine on ATI cards with this; so Far Cry "needing" FP Blending via Open EXR was all bull. That was one way to implement it but it also works fine on ATI's technology after all.

And people are pointing fingers at Valve for screwing around: add Crytek to that list and the entire development of Doom3 geared around Nvidia hardware and it becomes clear that developers are all open to the highest bidder, and more than willing to 'bend' a few rules.

This isn't an ATI problem and it isn't an Nvidia problem; it's an industry problem. Companies should not shut out features on ~50% of their market.

 

[naruto1988]

ran it on my 9800 XT 128 meg and demo ran kind of laggy (probably 10-40 FPS) at default settings of 1024x768x32 and 4xAA. for the graphics though, the performance isn't too bad.

 

[Todd33]

I finally ran it, the HDR on looks worse IMO. Cool demo, not great, but ok.

 

[VIAN]

Just an HDR demo with bad models, that don't look real plus their Cold Paradise tint to make it look more realistic. HDR right now is too bright, very unrealistic.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: VIAN
Just an HDR demo with bad models, that don't look real plus their Cold Paradise tint to make it look more realistic. HDR right now is too bright, very unrealistic.

adjust the settings as HOCP suggested a few posts up, it makes it look a lot better.

 

[yhelothar]

wow the depth of field effects in farcry looks breathtaking.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

wow those are pretty nice!!! techdemo sux abit but the far cry screens are awesome.the facial features are close, not as good as but very close to HL2 the depth of field looks great with all the blurring out of background like u would get in real life if u focused on something close

 

[PrayForDeath]

Looks interesting (From the screenshots), I can't play it though (Dial-up user )