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Download Unreal Engine 4 Elemental Tech Demo DX12
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#5138060 Posted on: 08/07/2015 03:38 PM
This demo is a terrible example of UE4. The new unreal tournament pre alpha has much much better graphic and it runs 3 times better than this mess, and its an actual game where stuff happens, not just a demo, where nothing is happening.
This demo is a terrible example of UE4. The new unreal tournament pre alpha has much much better graphic and it runs 3 times better than this mess, and its an actual game where stuff happens, not just a demo, where nothing is happening.
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#5138154 Posted on: 08/07/2015 06:14 PM
When i start the .exe i have that too and vsync is, though flagged on in nVidia settings, acsually off (110 fps tops)
But when i start the shortcut (DX12 NO VSYNC) it looks good and very smooth, no flickering, but vsync is on (60 fps tops) .. and way smoother than just the .exe
Yea, I was getting corruption, multi colours flickering, and weird lens flare with the DX12 in fullscreen - DX11 one was spot on and about 40% better performance
When i start the .exe i have that too and vsync is, though flagged on in nVidia settings, acsually off (110 fps tops)
But when i start the shortcut (DX12 NO VSYNC) it looks good and very smooth, no flickering, but vsync is on (60 fps tops) .. and way smoother than just the .exe
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#5138178 Posted on: 08/07/2015 06:41 PM
DX12 is awful in this...stuttering and poor FPS.
DX12 is awful in this...stuttering and poor FPS.
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#5138179 Posted on: 08/07/2015 06:41 PM
It worked pretty well on my aging 680/920 combo, except for the rift formation at the end, where it dropped <30 fps.
To be honest, it seems like game visual quality is mostly (at least for me) about these features and in this order:
1. Animation smoothness
2. How realistic animation is, eg natural running
3. Textures
4. Lights
5. Extra effects
And the most of performance bottlenecks are related to the extensive use of extra shiny effects, where it would be enough just to pack better textures for clearly visible objects, and make them behave naturally.
It worked pretty well on my aging 680/920 combo, except for the rift formation at the end, where it dropped <30 fps.
To be honest, it seems like game visual quality is mostly (at least for me) about these features and in this order:
1. Animation smoothness
2. How realistic animation is, eg natural running
3. Textures
4. Lights
5. Extra effects
And the most of performance bottlenecks are related to the extensive use of extra shiny effects, where it would be enough just to pack better textures for clearly visible objects, and make them behave naturally.
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Unreal Engine 4 is certainly capable of much better than what the Elemental demo provides that's for sure, it's a few years old now afterall.
Epic did mention that DX12 would be available from version 4.9 of UE4 which is still being worked on.
The new Unreal Tournament will be using it 4.9/DX12 as soon as it's available.
Maybe it will be possible to combine "A Boy and His Kite" with UE4.9 once it's out of testing, should be a better test.
(And will allow UE4.9 to mature a bit more and possibly improve it's D3D12 implementation too.)
Downside to that is that the showcase version of that particular demo is a full 50 GB.
(But it will allow the user to combine the showcase with the latest engine version and test new features that way.)