The first DX10 game announced

[TSS]

Update: both videos and screenshots were removed from our download section due to Gamestar's request.

anybody who can host the screens on imageshack or something? or the movie?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: TSS

Update: both videos and screenshots were removed from our download section due to Gamestar's request.

anybody who can host the screens on imageshack or something? or the movie?

http://www.synthdude.com/crysis/

I probably won't leave them up for too long, I don't want everyone from the forums raping my bandwidth

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Thanks SynthDude :beer:

 

[A554SS1N]

Shouldn't users of XP be able to download DX10 rather than being forced to buy Vista just to enable any extra effects? I plan to stay with XP for a while - Vista just seems like Bloatware with it's fancy GUI plans.

 

[Stu L Tissimus]

You'd think that, Assassin, but Microsoft has already announced that that's exactly what they don't intend to do. They have to have some reason for people to migrate to Vista.

 

[Pocatello]

I wonder if Crytek is going to spruce up Farcry and release it to the market, like Half-Life Source. From the tech demo, it looks like they've done a lot to improve the game. The gameplay is the same, but it is a lot prettier.

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: A554SS1N
Shouldn't users of XP be able to download DX10 rather than being forced to buy Vista just to enable any extra effects? I plan to stay with XP for a while - Vista just seems like Bloatware with it's fancy GUI plans.

Apparently the driver model required for DX10 makes it impossible to work with XP.
Vista will have a DX9 implementation that will use some kind of emulation.

I thin in the end DX10 + Vista's new driver model may be a great thing, but at first it will be slow to get out of the gates.

 

[pibrahim]

Ta for hosting Synthdude!

 

[pibrahim]

Hmmm. The demo of the realtime soft shadows looked nice. The volumetric clouds looked good, but then IIRC the clouds in Flight Sim '04 looked good and I'm sure they didn't have the same technical basis.

The particle demonstration (of the lorry on fire) looked pretty naff though. Yet to see fire done convincingly...

 

[dunno99]

As far as I can tell, none of the features that're listed requires the need of a DX10 card. They're all able to be done in terms of DX9. Afterall, no prototype card even supports DX10 (at least none that CryTek can get their hands on anyways), so how do you think those shots in the demos are done? (Ok, it's possible that they're done with the software emulation provided in the newest DX release...but then that's "theoretical performance", and not true performance on the cards.) Therefore, I suspect that the new game can run on DX9 hardware, and the DX10 support is just a publicity stunt.

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Will DX10 work on XP or will you need Vista?

I'm pretty sure it's Vista-only and it's really called WGF 2.0 (what happened to 1.0?)

Yes, WGF 2.0 is equivalent to DX10 (it's called DX10 now, not WGF anymore). WGF 1.0 is DirectX 9.0L, the one after 9.0c.

Originally posted by: SickBeast
It looks like the good DX10 games will approach photo-realism, it's quite impressive.

Here is DX9 games in how far it is to true photo-realism:
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Here is DX10 games in how far it is to true photo-realism:
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Here is true photo-realism:
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Yes, every step we take, the difference between the importance filter a photo-realistic shot and its real-time counterpart is getting smaller...but we'll only get there (in games) once we can fit about 200 completed BlueGene/Ls in your PC. And no, I'm not kidding.

 

[James3shin]

nice work Synthdude, those graphics look CRAZY! I'm more excited about Crysis then UT2007 after those screens.

 

[Cooler]

i saw the demo and it look great i just heat to see FPS on my video card low teens and lower.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: James3shin
nice work Synthdude, those graphics look CRAZY! I'm more excited about Crysis then UT2007 after those screens.

Same here - this is actually the same video that had been floating around earlier, but the older one was so low-resolution (something lower than 320x240, I think) that you couldn't really make out any details - 1280x720 makes a big difference

I'm extremely impressed with these graphics, more so than UT2007's (from what we've seen), and I can't wait to see them in an actual game. At this point I'm considering holding onto my 6800GT throughout most of the year in anticipation of buying a new card mainly for this game (and UT2007, though I would hope that my current card won't be totally inadequate for that when it comes out a few months earlier).

I'm pretty confident in Crytek's ability to make a solid single player game too, now that we've seen FarCry, and the story sounds like it'll make for some really cool gameplay.

 

[Kalessian]

Hmm, that video is a year old or so already.

I still have a copy of it from the last time it went around.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Kalessian
Hmm, that video is a year old or so already.

I still have a copy of it from the last time it went around.

look again

the new one is higher res

 

[Kalessian]

Assuming that higher res video = updated trailer:

Yeah, thought maybe I just got a crap copy last time or something.

 

[James3shin]

what i'd like to know is, what kind of system(s) do the developers use?