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All popular franchises, but only if you enjoy those games. Not the genre I tend to play so nothing here to entice me. Others I am sure will be drooling over this announcement.
I wasn't talking about SLI, I was specifically addressing PhysX which was in the quoted post, which in my opinion is just a glorified physics engine.Originally Posted by crossy
Going foward, I genuinely hope PhysX goes away in favour of open standards or directly integrated into game engines, than arbitrarily disabled on competitor platforms.
Wasn't it someone from the Anno dev team who said that, and not Ubisoft itself?
Good news for Ubisoft; bad news for Nvidia.
Why would any company want to be associated with I-hate-PCs, DRM-obsessed Ubisoft?
Sounds like a good match after all
Yes I do. I have nothing against DRM in general, and don't mind the way steam do it (ie offline mode etc) I am against Ubi's Constant connection DRM which means you can't even play single player games whilst not online, something which I do often whilst travelling and working awaybet you have a steam/origin account though
Can with origin now. Just up-to steam to follow suite...
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Back when I played competitively (over a decade ago), I would lower details and the resolution as much as possible to boost performance and remove distracting eye candy. But nowadays, I don't play FPS online much, let alone competitively. And when playing casually, I want the eye candy. Obviously gameplay comes first and one can debate as to whether PhysX brings something worthwhile. I think that's down to the implementation rather than the underlying technology. But while you can switch it off if you don't like the implementation but you can not switch it on your card doesn't support it at all.
I'm not sure if this is what you were getting at but that is part of the problem. Because nVidia has locked PhysX down, game developers can't really make it an integral part of gameplay for fear of narrowing their customer base not just on the PC but on other platforms as well, which relegates PhysX to rendering electronic diarrhoea.
With regard to details, I did the same thing. One game in particular you could 'cheat' in was Battlefield Vietnam IIRC, where turning details down would remove foliage and much improve your view of the battlefield.
I am all for hardware manufactureres and publishers joining forces, it's been done for years and has not impacted me once. On the contrary, with certain partnerships trying to offer a unique element to the mix we have been able to grow the hardware itself into something better.
Until that happens with this one, we will just continue to see it as joint advertising efforts.
A very large portion of this site i'd imagine. Although they aren't saleable they can usually be got for a fraction of the price compared to a consale version.
For example, thanks to the steam summer sale i got an extra 12 games for less than £20, and the humble bundle has granted me playable copies of 8 good games and 11 ok games for less than £10.
That £30 on a console will buy....one game. If I was still paying that price for games i'd be miffed off if I couldnt sell it on too.
To clear this point up, you can't sell your played games back to Origin. They have allowed refunds for if certain is met, but that is all.
Last edited by Chadders87; 23-08-2013 at 12:34 PM.
My point being, that impact competitive play is likely a major factor for most (especially for something that's optional).
It's been a while since I've tried PhysX (laptop GPU showing it's age, and I am moving too often nowadays to get a desktop), but as I recall, Batman and Mirror Edge made some decent use of PhysX. I've not tried Borderline 2, but I've read praise about it too. Clearly it is not your thing, but the difference is that you have it but don't like it, you can switch it off, but if you don't have it, you'll never be able to make your own (subjective) judgement about it.
Now if an equally good or better open standard comes along, and gather supports, great. In the mean time, all things being equal (they never are), I'd favour having the -option- of enabling PhysX than not.
Nvidia - N****ia, a company that allways thinks only for themselves, greedy and hungry. Will never buy Nvidia...
Dude, nothing wrong witn nVidia.. The real assholes in the PC industry is Intel !
Plenty of ways around that..
I consider the fact theses enterprises work together an excellent initiative because I see gamers playing more realistic games. Meantime, I don't like how theses contracts of cooperation sounds... I mean, "with exclusiveness", because the gamers can lose innovations made by others technologies.
partnering with nvidia eh, its in history, plus ps4 gonna use amd gpu...
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