Witcher 3, Batman-AK, PCars nVIDIA graphical features

Good folks at dsogaming reports :

Yesterday, we informed you about the exclusive PC features that will be implemented in Far Cry 4 and Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Well, today we’ve got some additional titles that will benefit from NVIDIA’s GameWorks. According to slides from NVIDIA’s event, Batman: Arkham Knight, Project CARS, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. In addition, we’ve got additional information about the GameWorks effects that will be featured in Assassin’s Creed: Unity.

According to NVIDIA, Batman: Arkham Knight will support Turbulence, Environmental PhysX, Volumetric Lights, FaceWorks and Rain Effects. Project CARS on the other hand will come with DX11, Turbulence, PhysX Particles, and Enhanced 4K support.

We’ve known for a while that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will support specific NVIDIA features, but today we got the complete list of those features. The Witcher 3 will support HairWorks, HBAO+, PhysX, Destruction and Clothing (do note that Destruction and Clothing will be supported by the console versions).

Here is the complete list for a number of titles that will support NVIDIA’s GameWorks:

Assassin’s Creed: Unity – HBAO+, TXAA, PCSS, Tessellation

Batman: Arkham Knight – Turbulence, Environmental PhysX, Volumetric Lights, FaceWorks, Rain Effects

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel – PhysX Particles

Far Cry 4 – HBAO+, PCSS, TXAA, God Rays, Fur, Enhanced 4K Support

Project CARS – DX11, Turbulence, PhysX Particles, Enhanced 4K Support

Strife – PhysX Particles, HairWorks

The Crew – HBAO+, TXAA

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – HairWorks, HBAO+, PhysX, Destruction, Clothing

Warface – PhysX Particles, Turbulence, Enhanced 4K Support

War Thunder – WaveWorks, Destruction

And here are the slides themselves. Current-gen consoles currently support PhysX Destruction, Clothing and WaveWorks. While additional effects will be supported at a later, there is no ETA as of yet. Furthermore, some of these graphical features will also be supported by AMD’s GPUs on the PC.

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Those Tri-SLI 980's are looking mighty fine right about now.

tri-SLI? That doesn't seem a little excessive?

Not for 4K it isn't.

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/5623/3/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-sli--3-way-sli--4-way-sli-review-benchmarks-battlefield-4

Will these effects work on AMD GPUs, or is this more exclusive bs from nvidia?

take a guess

I understand Warnerbros and Ubisofts involvement, but I didn't think CD projekt would stoop to this kind of low.

Nice to see Nvidia stuff everywhere. :)

everything other than txaa and physx will work on amd gpus. lol @ dx11 being a pc feature. anything to try and differentiate a dying market i guess.

How is "stooping to this low"? Its not going to affect the core game, its not going to stop you from enjoying it.

@m3dude1:

They already use PhysX on current gen consoles , why couldnt they use it on AMD GPU's?

...because physx doesn't run on AMD GPUs.

I just love the PC

But the current gen consoles are AMD GPU's. Do they go out of there way to gimp it on pc ?

PhysX can be run by the CPU.

Ahh ok. So consoles have to use there CPU for the features?

Do any current gen console games use Physx? The feature is only able to be enabled if you have a Nvidia card (and no AMD cards). Otherwise it can be run on the CPU

Yes. I did a test for another thread a little while ago testing the difference between running PhysX on a dedicated card vs a CPU. Let me see if I can find it.

We know , all multiplats look/run better on PC. Duh. Only idiots like @m3dude1 deny this.

Castlevania lords of shadow used it(although thats a last gen game) On current consoles the only games I own that use it areTrine 2 and Metro LL.

Nvidia master race.

ive never denied this, but change "all" to majority

And so begins the technological gap that makes "current gen" consoles seem irrelevant to techies.

@foxhound_fox:

Yet almost every feature they offer is or will be supported on consoles.

Really? Many of those features are nvidia proprietary.

dont lie

source?

nvidia support the next gen consoles?

No. Not even close.

LOL. Lets not all jump on him at once.

thats what happens when you say something silly like that without proof

If they are working with nvidia gameworks, the game will likely run worse on AMD gpus. AMD users are also being locked of graphic effects that they could run just fine.

nVidia-exclusive features on AMD-based consoles? Especially consoles barely capable of 1080p60. LOL

Keep dreaming.

I've yet to see a modern game run worse on AMD cards. Well, to be more precise, being gimped. There are some features that yes AMD users can't use but that in the nature of the beast. If you're that bothered by it either switch to an Nvidia card or game on consoles...

And lol at my notification box exploding.

I don't know what any of that means. But my buddy from the Army built my desktop and he says, trust me you can play games at optimum for a long while. The VA, GI bill, and Disability is beautiful.

Perhaps you should learn to read a chart, the very chart the tc posted. Just about everything other then TXAA, Flex and VXGI will be supported by consoles.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/08/ps4-nvidia-pledges-physx-support/

"Pledging support" and "the console being capable of utilizing the features to their best" are not the same thing.

Its "planned". Doesn't mean its confirmed.

Watch Dogs and Assassins Creed ran noticeably worse on AMD cards. You being ignorant does not mean it isn't a problem.

"If you're that bothered by it either switch to an nvidia card or game on consoles."

lol, okay whatever asshat.

The newest version of physx is actually well optimized for running off a cpu.

People were actually reporting higher framerates in the Metro Redux forums running advanced physx off their cpu instead of their gpu.

I think Metro Redux uses advanced physx on the consoles too.

"Wubwubwub, Nvidia won't share" Stop being a crybaby. Nvidia are not required to share its technology, the fact that AMD does is AMD's own choice. Poor performance in games can be due to poor drivers. Nvidia having problems with Tomb Raider when that was released etc. It happens on both sides so stop making out that Nvidia are being sneaky.

I stand by my original comment, if you can't handle the fact that Nvidia owners get access to certain features then either buy an Nvidia card or stop moaning.

Arkham Origins runs better on a 770 than a 290x, many point to gameworks as the primary culprit.

One has to wonder why proprietary nvidia code is needed for things like tessellation and volumetric lights.

Because Nvidia are dicks?

Plus even if it does get supported It will probably be equivalent to low PhysX on the PC. Consoles can barely run their games as it is, adding PhysX won't help.

Your solution to everything is bend over backwards and spend more money? Next Tomb Raider is Xbox one timed exclusive, I'm not gonna call others cry babies like an asshat if PS4 and PC users dislike that deal.

@harry_james_pot: Metro LL supports it and it runs at a locked 60fps at 1080p. You call that struggling?

It's a bit more complicated than that.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/183411-gameworks-faq-amd-nvidia-and-game-developers-weigh-in-on-the-gameworks-controversy

I found it to be a good read:

"AMD: Being able to see and share source code access is very important to our driver optimization process.

Nvidia: Having source code is useful, but it’s just one tool in our toolbox. There are many, many things we can do to improve performance without touching it.

Developers say: They’re both telling the truth.

The first thing to understand about IHV – developer relations is that the process of game optimization is nuanced and complex. The reason AMD and Nvidia are taking different positions on this topic isn’t because one of them is lying, it’s because AMD genuinely tends to focus more on helping developers optimize their own engines, while Nvidia puts more effort into performing tasks in-driver. This is a difference of degree — AMD absolutely can perform its own driver-side optimization and Nvidia’s Tony Tamasi acknowledged on the phone that there are some bugs that can only be fixed by looking at the source.

This philosophical difference of approach makes sense given what we know of the two companies. Nvidia’s graphics business is much larger than AMD’s and the company has invested a great deal of money in creating 3D libraries, rendering engines, programming tools, and in some cases, specialized hardware blocks. AMD hasn’t tended to make as many of these kinds of investments; Mantle is the exception that proves the rule.

Some of this difference in approach is cultural but much of it is driven by necessity. In 2012 (the last year before AMD’s graphics revenue was rolled into the console business), AMD made about $1.4 billion off the Radeon division. For the same period, Nvidia made more than $4.2 billion. Some of that was Tegra-related and it’s a testament to AMD’s hardware engineering that it competes effectively with Nvidia with a much smaller revenue share, but it also means that Team Green has far more money to spend on optimizing every aspect of the driver stack."

The big issue with Game Works was that originally nobody was allowed to look at or alter the source code. Apparently now Nvidia is allowing it.

@clyde46: @clyde46: cough cough dx12 nvidia conference cough VXGI EPIC and lionhead fable dx12

PS3 and 360 both support PhysX but did any game implement it?