It may look good in a screenshot, but it'll be horrible in motion.
I've played Crysis with the ultra-high contrast that you always see in those amazing looking screenshots, and in motion it's annoying and looks terrible.
If school didn't start the day NVISION 08 started, I would be going.
Damn it!
BOSSMK XXIII, you've played Crysis Warhead?
Before anybody wonders, IGN had the exclusive on these screens which is why you've seen them before. EA gave them to other websites today.
The hell?
The Diablo series is action-RPG, not RTS.
Actually, NVIDIA has a large team of engineers who help development studios optimize their game. If you see the logo on a game, it means that NVIDIA helped the developer of the game optimize their game in one way or another.
PC is the lead platform.
They've done very little work on the 360 version so far.
If they did it quicker then there's a good chance that their games would suffer in quality.
To quote Shigeru Miyamoto, "A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever."
I'm 100% sure that this is just a temporary placeholder.
I bet that it's going to be changed to 'TBA' very soon.
Blizzard's said that, beginning with StarCraft 2, their games should release about 1 to 1 1/2 years after they are announced. Expect Diablo 3 in late 2009 at the soonest.
Hell, Blizzard even made a good racing game!
High settings, apparently.
I'm guessing Crysis was terribly optimized.
And I'm forced into buying a new console each time a new SKU is released.
Hey, I can make up lies too!
Strange. I've gone through dozens of drivers and have never noticed any drastic performance increases or decreases. I have used some great releases that made gameplay smoother, improved image quality, and improved FPS a few in some games, but have never used one that was significantly different from the previous driver.
I'm currently using 177.39 on my 8800 GTS 512.
I think the reason is that UT2004 is a much better game. UT3 may have technically superior graphics, but the gameplay is such a step down that it's no longer fun to play.
The population of people playing UT2004 right now is greater than UT3's ever was.
The interview in PC Gamer magazine said that a system equipped with an 8600 GT was able to play Crysis Warhead on "High" at a "silky smooth frame rate" (probably a stable 30 FPS). An 8800 GT can be found for around $100 nowadays, so if you have one of those you should be able to play the game on "High" at a pretty high FPS, if what PC Gamer magazine says is true.
This looks pretty awesome.
It's like Crysis ramped up to 11.
I think it might mean that Blizzard will reveal new things about each of their games.
Maybe a ton of new info on WOTLK.
StarCraft 2 release date.
And Diablo 3 announcement.
You can install the drivers, which are great, but I'm pretty sure the PhysX GPU acceleration currently works only on the supported cards.
Realism?
Uh, ok...