Quad Core Game Demo - This is truly amazing!!

Fordy

Hi all

I dont know what game engine, graphics and physics card this demo is using but it has got to be the most impressive demo you will see for a long while!

It includes ultra realistic and seamless landscape, dynamic and volumetric lighting and incredible day/night weather transitions.

Edit: It's Remedy's new game - Alan Wake

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

Thegodzero

sorry but this was posted over three weeks ago...

Joshua Stubbles

zing!

I saw this awhile ago as well. Still breathtaking, though. I'll have to make a quad-core upgrade next year for sure. Sweet stuff.

Fordy

Oops, sorry, I didin't catch it last time, my bad

Ferg

well I didnt catch this last time it was posted, so thank you for reposting it

f'in awesome

Lee3dee

also new to me, looks really nice. thanks for the repost.

JKMakowka

Damn, I guess my new notebook (Core2duo 2ghz 2GB Ram Geforce7700 ) isn't going to like that
Maybe I should have invested the pile of money into a desktop PC instead.

ElysiumGX

back in my day, we called this a realtime simulation. games were something else entirely, because they were FUN! my how the line has blurred.

sledgy

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back in my day, we called this a realtime simulation. games were something else entirely, because they were FUN! my how the line has blurred.

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Boo Hoo Grampa Douchebag. This is a demo, aka a simulation. These aren't the guys that tell the tales, they set the stages.

arshlevon

more proof you will always get better graphics and performance from a pc than a console, when the quad cores come out and dx 10, next gen will be last gen.

Ninjas

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more proof you will always get better graphics and performance from a pc than a console, when the quad cores come out and dx 10, next gen will be last gen.

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Seriously. Does anyone here even know what a geometry shader does? I have no clue and have been wondering.

hawken

they still have some way to go on computer generated speech though!

Robert Headley

Geometry shaders do exactly what it sounds like they do.. modify geometry.

Computers are always going to be more powerful than consoles, consoles strong point is a uniform platform, something PCs will never have.

You might be able to make better graphics for a PC, but its financial suicide to require a Quadcore system for your game to run. All consoles of a given platform are the same, thus you can design for the best the system can accomplish. PCs, you have to design for the lowest common denominator.


Remedy users their own engine.

retleks

Geometry shaders=real time displacement, and I think real time weapon change.

adam

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more proof you will always get better graphics and performance from a pc than a console, when the quad cores come out and dx 10, next gen will be last gen.

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Next-gen is already current-gen.

Thegodzero

retleks, better find a giant crab to go with that so you can flip it over and hits its weak spot for massive dammage.

Daz

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You might be able to make better graphics for a PC, but its financial suicide to require a Quadcore system for your game to run. All consoles of a given platform are the same, thus you can design for the best the system can accomplish. PCs, you have to design for the lowest common denominator.

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I'd be inclined to disagree with that paragraph for the most part. Whilst some PC developers might design for the lowest common denominator, many dont. Many PC games that are released require an absolute behemoth of the latest system to run comfortably, and in turn actually help drive graphics card and other technology *and* the actual hardware market forward.

Neo_God

Yeah, just think of home many people built and ordered new computers just to play doom 3.

ViPr

why do most upcoming PC games look as though they still don't know what a pixel shader or a programmable pipeline are?

Mark Dygert

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more proof you will always get better graphics and performance from a pc than a console, when the quad cores come out and dx 10, next gen will be last gen.

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[xbox fanboy]
nuunt-uhh mr stupid head next gen is here to stayz! The 360 has BLOOM EFFECT it makes everything look cool. Who wants realistic graphics when you can just blur the crappy old ones?
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Serriously thanks for reposting this I missed it the first time. Now all we need is a sandbox editor that does everything I have always wanted an outdoor editor to do... With new tech comes more insane code and funky-flakey shaders that hardly work right for the first 5+ years, but it looks pretty so we all use it.

Mark Dygert

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You might be able to make better graphics for a PC, but its financial suicide to require a Quadcore system for your game to run. All consoles of a given platform are the same, thus you can design for the best the system can accomplish. PCs, you have to design for the lowest common denominator.

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I'd be inclined to disagree with that paragraph for the most part. Whilst some PC developers might design for the lowest common denominator, many dont. Many PC games that are released require an absolute behemoth of the latest system to run comfortably, and in turn actually help drive graphics card and other technology *and* the actual hardware market forward.

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I think the key is scalablity, it is important to keep in mind the lowest common denominator and allow your game to run on some lower tech but build it so people with the latest tech can see what the game is really ment to look like. Scaleablity also plays right into porting the title to consoles. If you can build scaleablity into your production pipeline its much easier than having to try and do it after the fact.

James Edwards

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I'd be inclined to disagree with that paragraph for the most part. Whilst some PC developers might design for the lowest common denominator, many dont. Many PC games that are released require an absolute behemoth of the latest system to run comfortably, and in turn actually help drive graphics card and other technology *and* the actual hardware market forward.

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I remember paying almost 1500 dollars for the combination of the very first 3d accelerator card plus a matrox millenium with a full 8 megs of ram! Just to play quake! =D

Then I got distracted by this 3d game art thing...