What are you playing?

[rtwjunkie]

Looks like they took a lot from the witcher. Not that I'm complaining, it only makes it better. The game looks great, hope ansel and freestyle work well, I wanan be able to snap some nice photos in the open world. Already got a sizeable collection from andromeda and wildlands, wanna add to that.

It does work great. I got great photos!

 

[jormungand]

damn guys..... im trying to hold myself for getting the game cheaper lol

 

[cucker tarlson]

Me too, I just got Sleeping Dogs,Mafia 2,Titanfall 2 and Batman Arkham City for less than basic AC:O costs. It'l drop just like any Ubi game.

Meanwhile, I'm getting through Wolfenstein 2. This one feels different, it's more heavily story driven than before. Since ansel doesn't work I recorded myself some videos.

 

[jallenlabs]

Battlefield 1 mp still. Everyday. I'm addicted. And occasional Dawn Of War Soulstorm.

 

[Cvrk]

Looks like they took a lot from the witcher. Not that I'm complaining, it only makes it better. The game looks great, hope ansel and freestyle work well, I wanan be able to snap some nice photos in the open world. Already got a sizeable collection from andromeda and wildlands, wanna add to that.

Please add Andromeda. I don't know if you are familiar with my work here,but I to have a collection of Witcher and Andromeda, here on the Thread.
So please I would like to see your collection. Very interested.

 

[cucker tarlson]

I've posted them before. I'll try to find the post. Not all of them, but some nice ones. My upload speed sucks so please forgive me for not posting the whole album.

there you go

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/what-are-you-playing.204644/page-177#post-3747852

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/what-are-you-playing.204644/page-177#post-3748620

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/what-are-you-playing.204644/page-179#post-3751438

 

[Cvrk]

The more I dazzle myself into the world of the first order of assassins the more I need to talk about it. This will not go one for long, 14 hours into the game already...and boy my heart starts to go out to Ubisoft Montreal once again.

This was hard. Harder than the pyramid. A puzzle to get up. Not as tall as the pyramid., but with a better view.

Fun fact: Just like Witcher 2 you can cycle between moments of the day, but unlike Witcher where you can between 4 moments, in Origins you can press M (given that you invested skill point to get the desired ability) the longer you press the more the hours pass by. You can actually choose the exact moment of the day you want to stop! It's amazing cuz you cna really make a perfect screenshot depending on the light of day....amazing feature. Every game should have this!
Only found the skill useful for 1 side quest, but again,the screens opportunity is huge, for all you 4k ultra settings lovers outt here (not me...cuz it's 1080p very high no HDR).
Still someone here should play Origins given they have the necessary hardware and provide some amazing images.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Pharos lighthouse was definitely a tough climb! The view was fantastic though. Pretty much the view was great everywhere.

You've been going through it very detailed. The extra year paid off, it's like they found their groove again. A lot of the great features I found in here were a lot like TW3. I always said other game makers should learn from TW3. It appears Origins did.

 

[BiggieShady]

The moon behind the clouds

The view

 

[cucker tarlson]

Titanfall 2 has a 20GB update downloading,which is gonna take hours on my PC. So I installed Batman Arkham City in the meantime. Played Arkham Knight and it was definitely one of my favourite games of 2016, this is shaping to to be pretty fun too. I love the dynamic combat system. Out of all games that have a simple two button strike/parry formula, like witcher and assassin's creed, batman feels by far the best.

 

[Megan]

I Have started persona 5. So, i think I wont be able to play any other game for a couple of months

 

[cucker tarlson]

Titanfall 2 looks pretty nice.

 

[jormungand]

Titanfall 2 looks pretty nice.

Can you tell us how much you spent to beat the game....

 

[cucker tarlson]

I've just begun. I thought I had more pics to share cause some of them were amazing, only I kept pressing the wrong key to take screenshots, that's why I only got this one
I am,like,very smart and a stable genius

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Im playing Oxygen Not Included atm. Quite the fun game.

 

[Ahhzz]

I've just begun. I thought I had more pics to share cause some of them were amazing, only I kept pressing the wrong key to take screenshots, that's why I only got this one
I am,like,very smart and a stable genius

wonder where I've heard that before..... Oooh!!!! Did you find the right button because it was Really Big, bigger than theirs?!!?? And it works??!!!!!?

 

[rtwjunkie]

Titanfall 2 looks pretty nice.

Yes it does! And even tho a short 6-7 hour single-player campaign, it was some of the best gameplay to come out last year. Everything felt near perfect.

 

[cucker tarlson]

some Titanfall 2 pics.

https://ibb.co/m1zVWS
https://ibb.co/mRSHBS
https://ibb.co/gtMAWS
https://ibb.co/f5jVWS
https://ibb.co/d345WS
https://ibb.co/jmjHd7

 

[Cvrk]

Guys what is this ?
I am not nitpicking. Look very careful at the armor ,and on the eagles feather next to his feet.
It's like bad textures...like it has holes in it...like small squares one next to another. I have seen this in Player Unknown battlegrounds. However I just opened Mass Effect and Black Ops 3 ,they are fine.
I don't know what this is. ...and if it is not present in all my games,I guess my graphics card is not broken. ...I hope

Can you guys explain this ? It kinda worries me. It is AMD incompatibility issues etc...as long as I know my graphics card isn't dying. Please give me your input.

 

[ShurikN]

I've seen artifacts like those in Witcher 2 on HD7770, and in Witcher 3 and Rise of the Tomb Raider on GTX1060
(Usually with foliage)

 

[BiggieShady]

Can you guys explain this ? It kinda worries me.

That's, sadly, how modern engines handle semi-transparent surfaces (polygons with textures that use alpha channel for transparency). In the olden days alpha blending was part of the fixed pipeline but order independent and correctly lit transparency was impossible ... today all modern engines have correctly lit order independent transparency, but no smooth alpha blending ... except maybe far cry 3 and later versions - they do it with foliage and with noticeable performance impact ... it's enhanced alpha blending called 'alpha to coverage'

When I say order independent and correctly lit, I mean this:

Nicely blended canopy looks inside out (incorrectly lit) because of all the polygon intersections, there is no 'right' order of rendering to avoid this using hardware accelerated blending.
Stuff that is far away gets smoothed out by anti aliasing filter but stuff that is close must be also filtered by some dot based pattern filter to avoid blockyness (and that's what you see on Senu's wings and Bayek's clothes). Funny how supersampling to 8K image and resizing back to 4K makes this all go away for marketing screenshots

 

[Cvrk]

@I huge thank you @BiggieShady
Surely not everyone has this issue. Not on all config,s / graphics card .
Can you explain what settings to use, or if it has something to do with a game being optimized for a platform rather than other. I haven't had this issue with CoD WW2 the new one...or Wolf The New Colossus.
In your experience is there something can be improved,so my graphics card can see these textures well ?
At this point it's not even fps or performance. Even on Ultra Origins has this problem and if I run around in a closed area..(town) I have 50 fps....which tat is good for no lag. My question is, if I take the graphics all the way to Ultra and I see this issue on my card...will Ultra on a GTX 1080Ti be different ? I don't think you see this issue on that kind of high end graphics,do you ?

 

[BiggieShady]

Surely not everyone has this issue.

I'd say everyone has this issue (see wings on 1st image in my post - you'll have to click the image and click the zoom icon on the top to see it), it's how engine was made to handle transparency ... however, by sacrificing performance you'd completely solve the issue with rendering to 4K frame buffer (virtual resolution or DSR or frame scaling) on 1080p monitor. I'd say it's also less noticeable at 4K in general.
Try raising the 'Resolution Modifier' in Display settings in game, then tell me is the issue less noticeable and how much fps you have lost

 

[Cvrk]

I did what you told me.

3840 x 2160 = 17 - 25 FPS . I can very much feel the lag,and at this point i consider the game to be unplayable. (even tho i have played games at 10-20 fps for many hears but now I just don't wanna get back to that)
However the issue with Alpha test is 100% gone! The image is super clear and the game never looked better. And OMG, does it look amazing . This is the best example in video gaming where you see drastic difference between 1080 and 4k. Mass Effect looks incredible in 4k,but Andromeda has no issues like Origins with alphatest so it never bothered me
Conclusion,yes raising the resolution fixes everything. Also.... 2018 and the future is not for 1080 gaming anymore. And tonight I have learned this...a strong lesson indeed.
It will be few years before 1080 will be useless completely, right now only the triple AAA titles ,and not even those ....but still,the future is not for 1080,and everyone trying to build new rigs in 2018 with 1080p in mind, spending their hard earned money on a "future proof" rig is mistaking themselves.

Continuing the troubleshooting 3200 x 1800 = 22 - 41 FPS. And the game is playable, again no sign of the Alpha test issue. And I am almost happy. Still 20+ fps is a no deal. It looks very good, but it feels bad.

2560 x 1440 = 30 - 58 FPS and the Alpha test issue is back Sadly the fps kinda feels good but the image is not.... and it is still an improvement over 1080 but you can see that it's there.

So I am back to 1080 with an almost smooth 60 all the time, and I am happy that tonight I have learned something new. Thank you again @BiggieShady This is why I love TPU. People here know stuff, so glad that you guys put up with me ,and I am a part of the community Thank you for having me

 

[cucker tarlson]

I'd still take 1080p 150 fps over 4K at 50 fps any day,though 1440p at 100fps seems like a reasonable middle ground and the best option all around. Only game I was okay with playing at 40 fps was Quantum Break cause IMO that's the best looking PC game to date and that was the reason I still liked the trade off between lower fps and great visuals.