Ubisoft and NVIDIA Team Up On Assassin's Creed Unity, Far Cry 4 And More

[MonkeyFace]

I could careless about Nvidia v. AMD, or Gameworks. I'm just tired of developers launching a product that is not finished, and having to put out multiple patches to improve the experience or fix the game. It's happening way too often in PC games, and I'm getting sick and tired of waiting for a "fix" that takes multiple patches, and multiple weeks. 

[Nicktrance]

I could careless about Nvidia v. AMD, or Gameworks. I'm just tired of developers launching a product that is not finished, and having to put out multiple patches to improve the experience or fix the game. It's happening way too often in PC games, and I'm getting sick and tired of waiting for a "fix" that takes multiple patches, and multiple weeks. 

 

Yeah, especially when the game is delayed for so long...

[Altecice]

If this is anything like watchdogs they can keep ther stupid ports... they dont work!

 

Both AMD,Nvidia drivers are on par with eachother now. In the olden days yes AMD drivers sucked (5000 series) but they are fine now. What normally happens is Nvidia boast about higher FPS in game but a week later AMD produce an on par driver so who really cares... Who buys games on launch now anyway? (looking at you broken watchdogs)  :rolleyes:

[Xorbot]

So many people overreacting, I mean this has been done for many years under several guises: "the way it's meant to be played", "Gameworks", "Gaming Evolved" etc. 

 

Indeed.  So many young kids on this thread running their mouths not knowing the history.

 

Let me attach this image to show just how long hardware-specific optimizations have been going on:

 

[jdsb52]

Indeed.  So many young kids on this thread running their mouths not knowing the history.

 

Let me attach this image to show just how long hardware-specific optimizations have been going on:

 

OMG Win 2000, such a horrible OS, but then came XP  98 was good aswell!

[AHaskin14]

Watch Dogs had a shaky launch but Ubisoft really doesnt have any bad games.

[jdsb52]

Watch Dogs had a shaky launch but Ubisoft really doesnt have any bad games.

Got a good point there, i got loads of Ubisoft Tom clancy games on ps2 and 3 they were all good fun!

[Nicktrance]

Indeed.  So many young kids on this thread running their mouths not knowing the history.

 

Let me attach this image to show just how long hardware-specific optimizations have been going on:

 

I guess I'm a young kid considering I've never even seen a 3DFX card IRL and I'm 21 and a few weeks . But yeah it's definitely nothing new.

 

Watch Dogs had a shaky launch but Ubisoft really doesnt have any bad games.

A lot of mediocre and disappointing/overhyped games lately though. I guess I can find one if I thought about it for a while but, yeah, overall they have a better track record than a lot of large producers... now if only they got rid of UPlay...

[jdsb52]

 

I guess I'm a young kid considering I've never even seen a 3DFX card IRL and I'm 21 and a few weeks . But yeah it's definitely nothing new.

 

A lot of mediocre and disappointing/overhyped games lately though. I guess I can find one if I thought about it for a while but, yeah, overall they have a better track record than a lot of large producers... now if only they got rid of UPlay...

Uplay is a bit of crap, they probably only done it because EA done origin!

[Linus_torvalds]

The amount of games that support PhysX is kinda dumb.

List of games which use PhysX:

1. Daylight
2. Call of Duty: Ghosts
3. Warframe
4. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
5. Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
6. Hawken
7. Depth Hunter
8. Borderlands 2
9. The Secret World
10. Metro: Last Light
11. Planetside 2
12. Batman: Arkham City
13. Deep Black: Reloaded
14. Mafia II
15. Metro 2033
16. Alice: Madness Returns
17. Shattered Horizon
18. Terminator Salvation
19. Batman: Arkham Asylum
20. Darkest of Days
21. Dark Void
22. Mirror's Edge
23. U-WARS
24. Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
25. MKZ
26. Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
27. MKZ
28. Nurien
29. Crazy Machines 2
30. Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
31. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

Awesomeness & epicness of PhysX which AMD users doesn't have:

 

[imthewalrus]

 

List of games which use PhysX:

1. Daylight
2. Call of Duty: Ghosts
3. Warframe
4. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
5. Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag.....

 

 

What is PhysX?

[Linus_torvalds]

What is PhysX?

Asus OCll HD 7790 1 gb

 

Buy Nvidia card and you will understand

[imthewalrus]

Asus OCll HD 7790 1 gb

 

Buy Nvidia card and you will understand

I don't have the money, however I can still play all those games you mentioned at 40 fps in high settings with a cheap card, will physx make a difference?

[DaRk0]

Well at the very least mantle forced M$ to announce DX12. So that's win win for us somehow. But gameworks? We won't get anything from that thing.

 

I asked this couple of times, but no one answered - how did AMD force Microsoft to announce DX12 with Mantle?

[AbeTrve]

I don't have the money, however I can still play all those games you mentioned at 40 fps in high settings with a cheap card, will physx make a difference?

Nope.

[jdsb52]

I don't have the money, however I can still play all those games you mentioned at 40 fps in high settings with a cheap card, will physx make a difference?

Nope

[nicholaswillems]

nvidia cards perform bit better at launch

 

Read: still a few thousand % worse than what they should be able to do when I look at the games. It's not normal that a system that runs BF4 on ultra at 120+ fps has to run watch dogs under 60 fps.

[Notional]

 

List of games which use PhysX:

1. Daylight
2. Call of Duty: Ghosts
3. Warframe
4. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
5. Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag

(...)

 

You named two games twice. So only 29 games over the course of a decade. Most of the games use the CPU to process PhysX, not the gfx. Pretty useless. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX

 

What is PhysX?

It was a physical add on card you had to buy and install next to your graphics card back in 2004. It was then acquired by nvidia as a proprietary tech, that was implemented in their own graphics cards. The proprietarity of the thing, meant that it would not be implemented in either AMD based pc's or any consoles (at least not the advanced version). Instead the open Havok engine, that could be implemented in all the things, without any performance hit between AMD7Nvidia, became the de facto standard. In borderlands 2 for instance, Advanced PhysX is only used to make some acid look 3D'ish and completely out of style with the game, and to make some fabric hanging down buildings, move in the wind. The rest is CPU based, and runs equally on AMD. Nothing particularly interesting.