Batman: Arkham Asylum - nVidia PhysX PC trailer

Sanpaku · 2009-09-01T12:39:23Z

Rocksteady and nVidia have released a trailer demonstrating the pc exclusive use PhysX technology available only in the PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum. Format: Streaming HD @ 720p HD Length: 1:37 minutes

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Pandamobile6101d ago

PhysX may seem gimmicky at first, but it really does add a whole new level of detail in the game. All the paper flying around, the volumetric fog, the spiderwebs, and the cloth flags are an awesome spectacle to behold in a game.

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Moragami6101d ago

I sure hope the frame rate is better than it was for that video. While the video looked awesome it was getting like 1 or 2 FPS. I assume that was to slow it down to show off the effects but I found it annoying.

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Darkfocus6101d ago

psysx is awesome but the fact that its only available on nvidia cards makes it gimmicky seeing as many ati cards could easily handle

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sloth4urluv6100d ago

Framerate was fine, there is a difference between framerate and time dilation.

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Pandamobile6100d ago

That's because Nvidia bought Agiea, the guys that made that PPU (physics processing unit) a couple years ago and jammed it into the new Nvidia graphics cards :P

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Johnny_Cojones6101d ago

This is the version I preordered. Got a great deal on Amazon. In the last year I've been converted to a half pc/half console gamer. I have the PC versions of Fallout 3 & GTA 4 as well as the XBOX360 versions, & the visual fidelity on the PC versions is incredible by comparison.

My only problem with PC gaming is that games are more likely to have issues on day one than console releases.

It took a good bit for the PC GTA 4 to smooth out.

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Pandamobile6101d ago

Well, GTA IV was a direct port of the 360 version.

Hence why it runs like balls on most systems. Very poor optimization. You have nothing to worry about with Batman: AA. The PC was the lead platform and ran great for me with PhysX and everything on max.

There's a demo to try out if you haven't already.

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likedamaster6101d ago (Edited 6101d ago )

"Well, GTA IV was a direct port of the 360 version.

Hence why it runs like balls on most systems."

Another generalized statement from you. Tsk tsk. Gears 1 port to PC looks and runs better on PC, utilizes all 4 cores(for quadcore) unlike Crysis.

GTAIV felt like another "Crysis". Poorly optimized code and broken. I first popped in Crysis it wouldn't look side to side, it wouldn't do this or that. If you didn't max your RAM you weren't getting anywhere with even triple-sli of the latest GPU as far as visuals were concerned.

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Pandamobile6101d ago

But Gears 1 runs on the UE3 engine, which is already fantastically optimized for PC. They had to port the entire GTA IV engine from the 360 version.

And Crysis uses all 8 of my threads when I play it. When I look at my CPU activity all 4 cores and 8 threads are averaging 30-40% usage.

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