What is the latest greatest graphics engine now?

[glen]

I was curious as to what they are capable of now.

 

[Silverforce11]

None of that deferred rendering crap with FXAA as the defacto AA mode without a functioning MSAA path.. its a disgrace going way backward without proper AA.

For that, I vote anything recent with DX11 Forward+, or pretty much EA's and Codemasters game engines.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

EA's defacto AAA engine is Frostbite 2 which isn't Forward+ unless they recently made changes.

 

[glen]

None of that deferred rendering crap with FXAA as the defacto AA mode without a functioning MSAA path.. its a disgrace going way backward without proper AA.

For that, I vote anything recent with DX11 Forward+, or pretty much EA's and Codemasters game engines.

Any Demos I can download?

 

[tweakboy]

I was curious as to what they are capable of now.

IMO
UT3 Engine and Crysis 2 engine. In the future it will be UT4 engine and Crysis 3 engine. No engines come close.
Gosh I remember when Unreal came out May of 2008. That thing was sick and had multiplayer too LOL. Epic since then have set the bar.

First with UT99 then Gears 1 and 2

Far Cry 3 will use Crysis 3 engine and is just as beautiful but I prefer the UT4 engine that future games will use 2 years from now.

 

[glen]

Alright, well, is there a demo I can download to see what they look like?

 

[Durvelle27]

try this

http://www.eurogamer.net/gaikai?via-facebook=true

 

[glen]

Why do the PC/PS3 comparison videos looks exactly the same?

 

[toyota]

IMO
UT3 Engine and Crysis 2 engine. In the future it will be UT4 engine and Crysis 3 engine. No engines come close.
Gosh I remember when Unreal came out May of 2008. That thing was sick and had multiplayer too LOL. Epic since then have set the bar.

First with UT99 then Gears 1 and 2

Far Cry 3 will use Crysis 3 engine and is just as beautiful but I prefer the UT4 engine that future games will use 2 years from now.

its UE not UT. UT is a game not the engine.

and Far Cry 3 will use the Dunia engine not the Crytek engine.

 

[Red Hawk]

Judging by how many third-part developers have adopted it, and AAA developers at that, Unreal Engine 3 has indeed proven to be a versatile and robust engine. However, it's hardly the "latest and greatest". It was created at the beginning of the last console cycle, and while it's been periodically updated and customized, it's hardly the greatest.

Unreal Engine 4, Cryengine 3 and Frostbite 2.0 seem to be the most forward-looking engines right now.

 

[Siberian]

Say what you will about Rage, but the engine shows a ton of potential.

 

[BenSkywalker]

Luminous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cr7mdYrI2g

Crytek3-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWvgETOo5ek

UE4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyeeyZE41O4

Unreal Engine 4, Cryengine 3 and Frostbite 2.0 seem to be the most forward-looking engines right now.

Frostbite 2? Well, I think it is going to be one of the better cell phone game engines within a couple of years. To be fair, very different generations of technology, I'm interested to see what Frostbite 3.0 brings to the table, but I don't think it's in the league of the big three engines we know about so far.

 

[The Alias]

I'm somewhat biased toward frostbite 2.0, but cryengine 3 looks incredible as well

 

[glen]

Is there a playable demo of any of these?

 

[poohbear]

Luminous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cr7mdYrI2g

Crytek3-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWvgETOo5ek

UE4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyeeyZE41O4



Frostbite 2? Well, I think it is going to be one of the better cell phone game engines within a couple of years. To be fair, very different generations of technology, I'm interested to see what Frostbite 3.0 brings to the table, but I don't think it's in the league of the big three engines we know about so far.

Huh? BF3 blows everything out of the water graphics wise AND is very efficient playing smoothly on 64 player servers. None of the other engines can achieve the same graphics while maintaining smooth gameplay, its just not gonna happen. Besides Dice said BF3 is "just the beginning" in terms of what the Frostbite 2.0 engine is capable of. It was designed with next gen consoles in mind.

 

[glen]

Luminous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cr7mdYrI2g

Holy Crap!
That is amazing!

 

[BenSkywalker]

BF3 blows everything out of the water graphics wise

Click on the links I posted. The OP asked about the latest and greatest engines, I think you'll notice that BF3 isn't in the league of the latest and greatest engines. Personally, I think Luminous is hands down the best, but others may have a different perspective.

 

[imaheadcase]

None of that deferred rendering crap with FXAA as the defacto AA mode without a functioning MSAA path.. its a disgrace going way backward without proper AA.

For that, I vote anything recent with DX11 Forward+, or pretty much EA's and Codemasters game engines.

What is a disgrace is that we have any AA to begin with.

 

[An00bis]

BF3 looks like [trash], I truly regret handing my precious money to those idiots at DICE and EA, they can't make a game for [toddlers], the graphics are terrible, game is riddled with various bugs, hackers are everywhere, you'll be spending 90% of your time getting [owned] by hackers from the other end of the map, right after you respawned and right in your team's base. The maps are absolutely pathetic, when you enter a helicopter or a jet it basically takes you like 2 sec to go from one end to another, and you can slightly leave the boundaries of the map BUT if someone shoots your plane down and you bail out, you get killed because you were "leaving the map"... Wish I could get a refund for this game and buy myself a [different game], I'd probably have more fun [playing on my own] instead of letting that atrocious game do it.

On-topic: this is a good looking game, not that crap BF3:
http://download.gameblog.fr/images/jeux/5160/TheWitcher2-AssassinsofKings_Multi_Editeur_057.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/LMIcB.jpg

http://download.gameblog.fr/images/jeux/5160/TheWitcher2 Edit009.jpg

No profanity in the tech forums, please
-ViRGE

 

[Garming]

mother of god, the new engines are like watching a movie

 

[hawtdawg]

mother of god, the new engines are like watching a movie

Hasn't it always been that way? And then the games come out, and it's never as good as the original tech demo's, or enough time has passed that it's not that impressive anymore.

I remember the first time i saw the 2005 E3 Killzone 2 trailer. I think i literally shat my pants. But by the time the game actually came out, it wasn't that big of a deal anymore.

 

[imaheadcase]

Good engines are limited by the devs screwing it up.

 

[MisterMac]

Has anyone forgot mr. bruce from euclideon?


Anyone think he'll ever come otu with something for game engines?

 

[ChippyUK]

Problem is that engine games are designed by those who obviously create the engine itself. Plus doing a 3 minute reel which is probably optimized and just a scripted sequence (e.g. No AI, etc) which they've spent big bucks on to produce.

For instance Square's demo is amazing but the games that have used it look pretty average, although you could argue this is due to them limiting texture sizes for 'consoleisation'.

 

[cmdrdredd]

BF3 looks like [trash], I truly regret handing my precious money to those idiots at DICE and EA, they can't make a game for [toddlers], the graphics are terrible, game is riddled with various bugs, hackers are everywhere, you'll be spending 90% of your time getting [owned] by hackers from the other end of the map, right after you respawned and right in your team's base. The maps are absolutely pathetic, when you enter a helicopter or a jet it basically takes you like 2 sec to go from one end to another, and you can slightly leave the boundaries of the map BUT if someone shoots your plane down and you bail out, you get killed because you were "leaving the map"... Wish I could get a refund for this game and buy myself a [different game], I'd probably have more fun [playing on my own] instead of letting that atrocious game do it.

On-topic: this is a good looking game, not that crap BF3:
http://download.gameblog.fr/images/jeux/5160/TheWitcher2-AssassinsofKings_Multi_Editeur_057.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/LMIcB.jpg

http://download.gameblog.fr/images/jeux/5160/TheWitcher2 Edit009.jpg

No profanity in the tech forums, please
-ViRGE

Sounds like you just suck at the game and want to cry about how everyone cheats. No, everyone just got the upgraded scopes and better weapons and you don't put in the time to do it yourself. You want everything handed to you on a silver platter like CoD.