AC IV: Black Flag - PhysX Patch Video

#4727840

---TK---

2013-12-19 16:33

Whats wrong with txaa?

#4727848

WhiteLightning

Moderator

2013-12-19 16:41

txaa is awesome imo , though i do find aliasing just as horrible as tearing which doesnt seem to bother some people

#4727929

Ryu5uzaku

2013-12-19 17:56

the original gun smoke is like more realistic for sure.

#4727939

Denial

2013-12-19 18:07

the original gun smoke is like more realistic for sure.

To me the animation is clearly better on the PhysX one, they just need to lower the particle count and make the texture more translucent and add a faster decay time.

#4727941

Ryu5uzaku

2013-12-19 18:09

To me the animation is clearly better on the PhysX one, they just need to lower the particle count and make the texture more translucent and add a faster decay time.

Both to me look all sorts of wrong, but I prefer the non physx one. Tho I do realize the fact that if used properly the physx one would be awesome but now it's just silly, I had to watch few flintlock videos online to see how it works irl.

#4727956

Dragonsbane

2013-12-19 18:30

So, the message I got is that PhysX detracts from my gameplay experience since all I will see is a giant smoke area all around. No thanks.

#4727959

WhiteLightning

Moderator

2013-12-19 18:32

Its not gpu accelerated physx ?

#4727969

Iggyblack

2013-12-19 18:41

Smoke on the guns are somewhat a tiny bit overdone, but yeah gunpowder did cause A LOT of smoke. for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zfbvzeBuA

#4727974

Loophole35

2013-12-19 18:45

Its not gpu accelerated physx ?

Notice everyone bashing it so passionately have AMD GPU's. I think I cracked the code. Moving along now.

#4727975

Rich_Guy

2013-12-19 18:46

so AC IV Black Flag gets a smoke patch for Nvidia users.

#4727980

Dragonsbane

2013-12-19 18:51

Notice everyone bashing it so passionately have AMD GPU's. I think I cracked the code. Moving along now.

Nope, I'm bashing it because I have eyes to see the mess they did. Don't get me wrong, I like PhysX, but this implementation is so lame it hurts to see.

#4727981

Loophole35

2013-12-19 18:51

so AC IV Black Flag gets a smoke patch for Nvidia users.

And TXAA it also has HBAO+ but meh game is fubar you have to disable ingame v-sync and use driver based triple buffering for it to be playable you still get the random crap but it does play better than AC3 did.

Nope, I'm bashing it because I have eyes to see the mess they did. Don't get me wrong, I like PhysX, but this implementation is so lame it hurts to see.

You can turn off the effects if you don't like it but black powder guns do produce a heavy thick smoke that is near-about impossible to see through.

#4728161

rodrigoles

2013-12-19 21:52

I guess this is the worst and laziest implementation of physx i ever saw. The frame rate goes down just by enabling it, even without any effect happening on the screen, which i believe, in this case, is limited to only smoke. Apparently just the main character's guns/tools produce the enhanced smoke. If i had paid ubisoft 5 million dollars to add my exclusive effects and optimize the game, i would seriously want a refund right now, lol. But, knowing nvidia, this was probably their intention from the start, people dissatisfied with the performance can buy a new vga.

#4728205

AC_Avatar100400

2013-12-19 22:39

Just another waste of PhysX come the hell on Nvidia what a waste and it doesn't look good.

#4728219

The Postman

2013-12-19 23:00

It looks like another Physx win !!

#4728231

---TK---

2013-12-19 23:10

Notice everyone bashing it so passionately have AMD GPU's. I think I cracked the code. Moving along now.

I see what you mean

#4728236

CPC_RedDawn

2013-12-19 23:18

Sorry but REALLLLY!!!??? Those smoke effects are terrible! The stock ones look MUCH MUCH better to me. Plus why on earth is there so much of it? It totally blocks your view in battles/fights. The only thing that looked pretty damn impressive was TXAA, honestly that made the game look seriously crisp. If there was any tech I could have from Nvidia on the AMD front it would be that. I would pass on the physX effects any day.

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