Recent content by Tchock

The last 2 pages are tangible confirmation why I've moved on to greener pastures like Flyertalk. With shillpologists at every corner, watching paint dry is probably more fruitful than this.

The cruel irony of this is that it makes Rebrandeon look like a strategy that pays dividends. Would gamers really mind getting a rebranded chip if it means driver support will remain competent? Now that's a new facet of the conversation that nVidia let slip.

Stayed a couple of years in Sinky before moving up north. Here's a few picks of mine, not really tailored to the B3D crowd but might be worth a look or two: Tiong Bahru. Small, quaint neighborhood with unique (in SG) low-rise housing. The food court in the local market is a great sampler for...

All I need is Geometry Wars 3 to keep me warm this Christmas. That- and spending the holidays in Phuket will be warm anyway ;p

our resident pixel-counter (but only to a certain threshold) is oddly absent... But really, I don't think it has much to do with the hardware/allocation. That aspect has always been read into way too much. It could just be a few common libs that have a more elbow grease on the X1 than the PS4.

I'm pretty sure people were really okay pretending that a recent first party driving game having unrealistic penalties and horrific server performance not being subpar! Please- if you do want to whine about a certain semblance of lack of integrity/intellectual honesty, it'd do a lot of good to...

Considering the condescension you've recieved by Mr Spokesperson from the other post, I suggest that you stick with the pre-order and flip it for a profit. Might as well make best use of a situation, right? :smile:

It is! Guerrilla's art dept seems to be thinking in a manner that's closer to CG studios than a traditional studio, so props to them. But to generously call it next-genny based off the scale virtues of that gif/sequence, is kind of like calling Myst IV (2005) fit of being current/next gen...

Didn't you just prove my point? The city is loaded in-engine, but the amount of buildings rendered in the wireframe only really tend to mid-ground of the scene- the bigger buildings are real and in LOD (the escape scene). Guerilla loves their mattes and projection mapping, and you'd have seen...

Going to burst your bubble there, but the majority of that scene's background is probably just camera synced and rendered offline in an offline renderer. Just like how movies "cheat" with matte paintings and 2D plates, cutscenes are now doing so with offline renders and matte-enhanced backgrounds.

Avoiding 900p? :wink: (I kid, I keed)

Well Jen-Hsun subscribes to typical Chinese superstition I guess :lol:

Shadow maps are pretty cheap. Compute/Forward+ are viable solutions. Now I can see why Turn 10 doesn't want to do it in Forza 5 though. Mixing IBL solutions and lights can be a PITA- takes quite some time or cheating.

Rez scaling on PC, IQ-wise, has been good for a few generations. The problem with PC games looking lacklustre in non-native is because of view distance, and the mostly static UI not being rendered in native res, which makes it look obvious.

Actually F5's biggest sore spot is the unevenness of verisimilitude: the cars and (asphalt) tracks look great, but the periphery scenery... occasionally not so much, and the fancy stuff really lacking. Things that could have helped quite a bit: track-based particle debris, atmospheric...