Well..., the Halo 1 TMCC version also lets you choose the original visuals of the first Xbox console in real time, so you can compare them to the remastered version.
Yes, but that probably has very little bearing on the real-time performance. Unless they're using an absolutely nonsensical and bizarre timeslicing approach, it's clear that the two layers aren't rendering simultaneously. There's probably a simultaneous RAM allocation for both, but that shouldn't be an issue considering the size of the RAM pool and the needs of the two graphical layers.
Well, unlike Halo 2 TMCC version, sometimes there is a delay between versions when you switch from the classic Halo 1 to the remastered version, especially, it never happened to me the other way around, so your theory sounds about right.
Even if we're talking about Halo 2, I have my doubts as to the "we run both layers at the same time" thing. The explanation never really made any sense to me, and it's easily demonstrable that at least some aspects of H2C's graphics aren't running when you're in Anniversary Mode.
Why is Halo 5 not 1080p?
I believe anniversary engine was based on the halo4 engine which was 1080 in halo 4 single player and 1080 in both anniversary and halo4 multiplayer.
Anniversary on 360 let you switch between original and updated graphics using the Back button.
Because it was built for XB1 and in some ways is more graphically intensive than the other games in the collection.
H2A MP is effectively a Halo 4 mod, but H2A SP is completely different, using completely new assets and Saber's engine.
All of Halo 2's assets probably have to sit in memory to enable the clean switch, and the audio layer is probably having to keep track of what's playing all the time.
Heh, wonder what their memory management & streaming is like. Or did they get rid of streaming?
I don't see how you could prove either way. The switch with halo 2 is less than 1 second. When you switch back and forth there is no texture or geometry pop in whatsoever. I don't see why its so hard to believe they are storing both framebuffers in memory. Halo 2 anniversary has slightly better graphics then Halo 4 in the MCC. H4 runs at 1080p, but it isn't burdened with running an older version of the title in 1080p. What I am curious to know is why with Halo 2 they wouldn't run the original version at 900p and give the anniversary version a boost in pixel count? Og Halo 2 has some of the worst texture mapping in a Xbox game I have seen. Sure they are normal maps, but they shouldn't have borhered. The 1080p res isn't really needed for the original Halo 2 graphics.
Did you read the post I linked? I can't determine the exact extent to which Classic Mode isn't active during Anniversary Mode, but it's clear that not everything is running. There's also no obvious performance crossover between modes, although as noted I wasn't really able to test H2C load in H2A since H2C is so stable (all other conditions for both oXbox games are testable with negative results, including CE performance not affecting CEA performance).
As I noted earlier in the thread, it's probable that both audio layers are running all the time, and Classic Mode will have to have a RAM allocation in addition to any OG memory management (i.e. streaming) requirements. Although the general lack of streaming-related pop-in makes me wonder if that's even an issue (or if they just load in everything at the start).
In some ways it's doing a lot more than Halo 4 is. Dynamic lights are often much larger, have specularity, and are capable of being spotlights. Some "static" lights are handled as their own precise sources, not just as part of an environmental lightmap. Some materials seem to have more expressive shading than in Halo 4, especially glossy metalish stuff. Screen-space reflections. Much higher-quality reflections for special/transparent surfaces like water (responds to lighting, sometimes reflects level geometry i.e. through what seems like might be box-projected maps, etc). Transparencies don't seem to have ordering issues.
I highly doubt Halo 5 will be 1080p if the framerate is flawless 60 fps. If the graphics are like Halo Reach or Halo 4's -which I'd be okay with with a few tweaks here and there- then maybe...
The replays run at 30 fps, plus the video's description says the game has a perfect 60 fps framerate.
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RSC2's replays run at 30fps. RSC1's run at 60fps.
I might have to go back and take a look. RSC1 always feels very smooth when I've played it.
haha I didn't know they made another KungFury video.... and with the Hoff! Classic.
