Microsoft Shows Off Full Power Of DirectX 12 With Square Enix Demo

[belardo]

All of this is meaningless. A show-off rig with most likely a $1000 CPU, Almost 4 grand in video cards... Until *THAT* runs on a computer with a $100 video card... Big Deal!

I just watched some movies recently, Jupiter Ascending, CHAPPIE. (Chappie is very good. Jupiter is actually kind of fun, even thou somewhat stupid).

The robots in CHAPPIE look like actual real robots. They move WAY too good to be puppets... Yet AFAIK, its a real metal thing walking, jumping, shooting, etc.

Now, THAT would be impressive in a game. PS: Movie theaters project from a 4K video source.... so 8K is severe over-kill... so maybe... 10 years from now.

 

[belardo]

The city looks pretty detailed... would like to have the fly by get closer...

So maybe the Playstation 7 will be able to handle this?

 

[Doug Lord]

The limiting factor for games is no longer hardware or software (on PC). It's budget. You want an amazing looking game, it will cost $100 million (Excluding marketing and distribution costs).. You can't recoup that on PC alone (you have to sell mm units to make an ok profit), so you end up gimped by the consoles. We need the consoles to get better, otherwise anything over 2 or 3 Tflops is wasted.

 

[red77star]

Sam achievable in DX11 giving you pretty close performance...really don't care about 5FPS difference.

 

[synphul]

I think people are more concerned with or interested in how this translates to what consumers may actually be running. It's great to see best case scenarios but it's not very realistic for the majority of people at home. People would rather see not so much 'what can it do' but 'what can it do on my system'. Show performance on a typical setup with 8gb ram and gtx 970 or r9 290x - those with slightly less hardware or slightly better hardware will see close to the same results. It matters little that a new ferrari can hit 241mph if the speed limit is still 65mph. In extreme tests it far surpasses, in real world it gets a person there (legally) no faster than a kia.

 

[hst101rox]

The limiting factor for games is no longer hardware or software (on PC). It's budget. You want an amazing looking game, it will cost $100 million (Excluding marketing and distribution costs).. You can't recoup that on PC alone (you have to sell mm units to make an ok profit), so you end up gimped by the consoles. We need the consoles to get better, otherwise anything over 2 or 3 Tflops is wasted.

When Crysis and other demanding games were released, I believe someone would have to turn down the graphics at least a few notches in order to play them on a midrange gaming/enthusiast laptop. I agree with a lot of these posts that as graphics become even more detailed, the production costs go up so how will they convince consumers to buy it?

 

[synphul]

Hopefully they remember to develop a decent storyline and game play depth, not just eyecandy. I'm all for great visuals but it means little if the game is over soon as it begins.

 

[hst101rox]

Hopefully they remember to develop a decent storyline and game play depth, not just eyecandy. I'm all for great visuals but it means little if the game is over soon as it begins.

I'd take a half-life 1 storyline with crappy graphics any day instead of just eye candy.

 

[golemred]

4 Titans LMAO , nvidia should have tried with Radeon R9 295x2 is 10 times more powerful with dx12

 

[Ninjawithagun]

Absolultely pointless and STUPID showing off DX12 with such an expensive hardware configuration. They should have used a mid-tier gaming system to show the difference between DX11 and DX12 performance. When will they ever learn? 90% of the profit is made from the middle-class gamers and NOT the high end uber gamers which make up less than 1% of the total PC gaming population. That means 90% of PC gamers use mid-tier graphics cards as their gaming solution. One day they will learn, one day they will remember the basic 101 principles that they learned in college. One day they will get it right, but not today...