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    Is Nvidia that desperate??

    It looks like Nvidia is up to more of shenanigans with Crysis 2:

    http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/sh....php?t=3310586

    "Aside from the few excessively tessellated objects, there's one very odd design "feature" -- the entire water surface from the harbor is extended well beyond the shore inland beneath the city. Although not rendered, the tessellation workload for all this wasted geometry still has to be performed, and as expected the Radeons are much more sweated by this extra load"

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    Re: Is Nvidia that desperate??

    Very old news.
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    Re: Is Nvidia that desperate??

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    Very old news.
    Wait a second!!

    I mentioned it in July:
    http://forums.hexus.net/2099618-post204.html

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    Re: Is Nvidia that desperate??

    Does any one know what app was used to show the fps in the purple font in the link? Fraps doesn't work in Crysis 2 and I tried the console but could't show fps.

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    Re: Is Nvidia that desperate??

    Quote Originally Posted by mrt9888 View Post
    Does any one know what app was used to show the fps in the purple font in the link? Fraps doesn't work in Crysis 2 and I tried the console but could't show fps.
    Looks like Msi Afterburner.

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    Re: Is Nvidia that desperate??

    It seems other objects have too much tessalation applied too:

    http://techreport.com/articles.x/21404/1

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    Re: Is Nvidia that desperate??

    I don't know how much of this is nvidia's fault, the whole thing reeks of badly implemented tessellation.
    This was always my worry about tessellation, in theory if used well it would be a great dynamic tool to manipulate the level of detail, however badly or sloppily used and it will massively increase the load on a gpu.

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    Re: Is Nvidia that desperate??

    Quote Originally Posted by Pob255 View Post
    I don't know how much of this is nvidia's fault, the whole thing reeks of badly implemented tessellation.
    This was always my worry about tessellation, in theory if used well it would be a great dynamic tool to manipulate the level of detail, however badly or sloppily used and it will massively increase the load on a gpu.
    HAWX2 and Lost Planet have the same issue AFAIK. OTH,the AMD sponsored titles don't seem to have this issue!!

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