B3D News Item: Challenge: Find Differences between Crysis 2 Console SKUs

CE2/CE3 allows for customisation for each object/category as in if they will cast shadows, self-shadow etc (though AFAIK self-shadowing is always on if shadow casting is enabled no mather setting). Also in some angles shadows on slopes might be clipping due to game using a shadow slope bias with a value of 4. A value of 1 pretty much fixes this for some slight very rarely visible shadow distortion.

 

The water reflections seem to work differently in both console versions, judging by this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7daGkdU86pc&t=15s&hd=1

I can't discern exactly what are the differences but they look different to me. The underwater part is clearly dissimilar between both consoles.

Also, there is a PC and PS3 comparison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U89TrAcaTl8&t=16s&hd=1

Finally, PC-Xbox 360 comparison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gj6fgnMvQw&t=20s&hd=1

I set every video to play at the adequate time mark telling where to look in the video.

I am not knowledgeable in the matter but in these forums there are some people who have a considerably better grasp of what graphics is than I do, and better understand how some settings work, but it's obvious they look different, at least to me anyways.

Crysis 2 is a complex game featuring many different techniques, and the DF article might shed light on these matters.

 

So where is all the new direct screens from single player hiding at?
Is this the only one so far ?
http://www.samus.co.uk/temp/crysis2_ps3_2.png
^this looks very bad.The blurry low resolution makes it looks worse than average HD games with no matter what extra tech it might have IMO.

 

Texture filtering is pretty bad on 360 (1:34) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE0EsXcR2uA&feature=channel_video_title

 

The image is blured because of temporal AA i think. MLAA would be better solution

 

No, super sampling would be. Frame reprojection & blending is much much much much cheaper.

 

In terms of gamma and lighting I saw no real differences between pc and ps3 muliplayer demo (tried both at home). CryEngine3 is a good start as a complete package for dev, but there is definitely some room for optimisation.

 

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Where are those from? PS3 version look a bit blurrier/less defined, far more than the resolution difference could possibly cause. Otherwise they are virtually identical with minor differences in rendering.

I'm not sure why the PS3 version would be like that. I'm just going to wait for the eventual DF analysis before taking those at face value. I think there was something wrong during the capture of the PS3 screen, but maybe not.

And all that said, the texture detail is fantastic.

Regards,
SB

 

Yeah I think the excessive blur is from their post-process solution.

Is that an AO bug in the second shot or just slightly different placement of the concrete barricades?

 

The second set of shots have the PS3 player slightly farther back then the X360 player. So the AO may not have "popped in" yet?

Regards,
SB

 

Maybe the lower the resolution is their AA blurs image more?

 

Gamma differences aside they look fantabulous! Still, all down to that all important framerate!

 

For reference, they compute a colour deviation from the surrounding pixels (four lookups w/ bilinear filtering to get all 8), upon which the blur strength is based, determined for the central pixel. It should be tweakable, but... eh... I'd be curious to see videos of the PC version (since we don't have any other way of messing around) with the filter on and off.

 

would the bottom two pics being taken from different distance have something to do with that?

it seems the 360 pic is closer to those objects, compared to the PS3 one. With the game pushing so much on screen, from taking pics I would think LOD (right wording?) would be affected by even a slight difference in distance.

 

No because it's also quite evident in the top set of pictures which is at an identical distance and perspective.

Regards,
SB

 

Ah missed "console" part.

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Legit? Supposedly from retail. This goes beyond the 3 previous presets, "gamer", "advanced" and "hardcore". Btw FYI I said a v.h mode would be called "extreme" month ago.

 

Probably a hoax. Previews have only mentioned three settings.
Or maybe Crytek has something up its sleeve

 

Technically a 4th preset exists in the beta cvar config wise and shader wise. Several shaders do a preset check for "very high" for improved quality and/or added effects. Some of them though could be "unlocked" by editing main shader libarary preset reading to make everything trigger at "high". Some things might have worked unless stored shader cache prevented it. Dunno though if Crytek will expose it in menu.