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Nvidia will give you three new games when you buy a GTX 780

Nvidia's shiniest new graphics cards will come with digital copies of up to three new games, the company has announced.

Buy a GTX 760/660 and you'll receive Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, as part of Nvidia's new Pirates, Heroes and Spies promotion.

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pwnsause_returns3830d ago

question, does anyone know if the GTX 770/780 are DX 11.2 compatibile?

JsonHenry3830d ago

Yes, 11.2 ready. The real question is can I get a workaround for DX11.2 so I don't have to buy and use Win8.1?

Perjoss3830d ago

This is the real thing isn't it. Micro trying to force people to upgrade to the latest OS and latest updates by promising stuff like the latest Direct X and dangling stuff like 'Halo 2 Vista only'. Its like pretty much anything Micro does when it comes to gaming on the PC is just half arsed :(

dark_1013830d ago

No, sadly DirectX 11.2 is exclusive to Windows 8.1 and XBox One
so even if your card support it, you still cannot get the benefit. Its not like windows 7 is not compatible or anything, its how Microsoft is forcing gamers to switch

(line in case you want to learn more)
http://www.bit-tech.net/new...

Also, so far i dont see something significant with 11.2, if your card can support DX11 than you are good

And at last, mah, I dont think that going to help Nvidia a lot especially with titan since you are (already) paying 1000 put for sure it will get people to buy cheaper cards.

JsonHenry3830d ago

@dark_101

They said the same thing about DX10/11 being on Vista/Win7 a while back but we had a workaround that enabled them on the older OS versions anyway. I am hoping it will be an easy fix like that because I don't want Windows 8 till there is better support for it and Win8 has a lot more updates to make it what we all want it to be.

neogeo3830d ago (Edited 3830d ago )

Damage control because AMD just destroyed Nvinda with the 290X for half the price of Titan and it's a faster card.

Wow the 280x is also amazing. Better then the 770 and $100 less. Go check the benchmarks. AMD all the way. call me a fanboy because I HATE Nvinda.

Deividas3830d ago

Im not an AMD fanboy by any means, I will buy the best card for the price, But I did get the R9 280X and I do have to say it is phenomenal. Going to pick up another one for christmas for Crossfire. Cant wait!

r1sh123830d ago

value for money, free games and AMD uses less power.
AMD have returned to profit, and they will get better because of the R&D from the consoles.

Should get better, I still believe Nvidia are ahead, but AMD have caught up quickly and are now on the offensive.

Who remembers in 2005 when AMD almost killed off Intel - intel came back hard.
AMD are most likely going to implement hyper threading apparently, rather than hyper transport.

Could be good competition in the coming months.

saber000053830d ago

Not sure why anyone would down vote this. I'm more of an Nvidia guy than AMD, but I agree that they have some AMAZING GPUs out there right now. It will, indeed, be a good competition. I always saw a trade off between AMD and Nvidia. I think this is the BEST thing that could happen to BOTH of them, to have them continue to work hard and come out with something new and exciting. Unlike Apple..

TwistingWords3830d ago

Looks like somebody is suffering delirium from severe heat exposure

Must have been using too many AMD products in one rig.

arexw3830d ago

oh wow really a brand new card with new technology barely beat an almost year old card at a little more than half the price??? oh i wonder who would have thought so???

get a grip.

and JUST caught up with nvidia. once nvidia releases their next products, and will again be behind.

im so glad amd isn't involved in drivers for new consoles, because their drivers are utter trash. always late, weeks to months late after a game comes out, and even after all that time invested, the drivers still suck by comparison to nvidia.

there's a reason nvidia didn't put their hardware in next gen consoles, and that is because nvidia makes top quality products. you get what you pay for. xbone and indiestation 4 would have given nvidia too little returns to make it profitable.

enjoy crappy amd hardware in your indiestation N4SP (news for sony ponies) and low end quality hardware and drivers in your cheap AMD crapware

SavageFlamingo3830d ago

Wow, you win the douche award for the day. Congratulations. You must be proud.

chaldo3830d ago

I am not a fanboy, but it didn't 'destroy' the 780 or titan. In some games it matches the titan and 780, and in some games its powered just a bit over those two.

In regards to the titan, the card was meant for high resolution + multiple screen gaming. And do note that it wasn't mean for for just normal one monitor gaming, as stated by nvidia. The card is capable of performing like a beast, with 6GB of VRAM and high bandwith, especially for a single GPU..

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Grave3830d ago

What happens if I get 2 of them?

MidnytRain3829d ago

And half of them will be redundant.

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Leaked Early Prototype Footage Reveals Development Stages Of Several Assassin's Creed Games

Prototype footage from several of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed titles has leaked, revealing early stages of their development.

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The Best Pirate-Themed Video Games (Not Skull and Bones)

BY JASON MONROE: The very best pirate-themed video games that you should play instead of the disappointment that is Skull and Bones.

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thorstein51d ago

PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???

And they never fixed it.

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag vs Skull and Bones Video Comparison Is an Eye-Opener

Ubisoft has just released Skull and Bones on PC and consoles. And, from the looks of it, the game wasn’t received well by some gamers. Not only that but it appears that Skull and Bones can be worse than Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, a game that came out a decade ago.

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OtterX65d ago (Edited 65d ago )

I wanted a Black Flag sequel so bad. It's still my favorite AC entry. The fact that they ignored everything that we loved about that game in this "spiritual successor" is making me enjoy watching this game crash and burn quite a bit. Either do it right or don't do it at all. (I understand the legal binding they got themselves into with the Singapore government to release this game at all costs)

/grabs popcorn

isarai65d ago

My thing is, if the Singapore govt was forcing you to do it at all cost, why not make what people wanted? How did ubi delay it for 5yrs, then again for 1yr and not just make a similar experience to black flag? How do you spend so much time and make so little?

Chocoburger64d ago

Ubisoft did make a sequel, Assassin's Creed: Rogue. It has a short campaign, and its packed with filler side quests for upgrades, but it's still a decent time.

It released on the same day as Assassin's Creed: Unity, so it was mostly forgotten.

porkChop65d ago

11 years of development. Multiple restarts. All the while people have been saying they don't want some pirate game where you can't even get off your ship. 11 years of people telling Ubisoft all they want is a pirate game that's basically Black Flag without any of the assassin or animus stuff. Yet they still served up this trash that no one wanted, charged $70 for it, and had the balls to call it AAAA.

The Guillemot family honestly needs to be forced out of Ubisoft. They've doubled down on everything players don't like about their games, they want AI to create "rough drafts" of their stories rather than letting their writers do their jobs, and they literally do not give a shit what their playerbase actually wants. 5-6 years ago their stock was worth more than 4x what it's currently worth. The company is dying.

Jin_Sakai65d ago (Edited 65d ago )

What has happened to developers? How can you possible make a worse looking game 11 years later? It’s honestly mind boggling.

darksky64d ago

It's because the older developers were better at it. The new generation pass most of their exams by copying code from around the web so are not nearly as good at understanding what they are developing.

LucasRuinedChildhood64d ago (Edited 64d ago )

No, here's the truth:
https://www.channelnewsasia...
This was made in Singapore and it's the first game of this scale to be made there. Ubisoft would probably cancel it normally since it clearly wasn't shaping up well but they were getting government grants to try build up the industry there.

Do you really think game developers are radically different than just 10 years ago? And this game has been development since Black Flag released.

Using one crap game to trash a whole industry of developers is stupid. It's like saying "Alien Colonial Marines proves that game developers suck now."

yeahokwhatever64d ago

i know this to be at least part of the puzzle from experience.

senorfartcushion64d ago

It's the multiplayer aspect of the world. MP games look worse than single player games, period. Every comparison we keep seeing are for games like Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones. They all have multiplayer focusses.

SyntheticForm65d ago

God, I'd love a remake of Black Flag.

Yi-Long65d ago

Enough has been said about this game already. The gaming world shrugged when it was announced so many years ago, and instead of listening to all the criticisms from the community back then, Ubi just sailed on and kept making a game nobody really wanted. What a waste of money and effort.

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