First CryEngine DirectX 12 Demo Trailer From King of Wushu Shows DX11 Comparison

Check out the first DirectX 12 CryEngine gameplay demo trailer of King of Wushu from Snail Games: "In 6 weeks by 2 engineers, Snail Games completed porting King of Wushu from DirectX 11 to DirectX 12, making it the first game from China adopting DX12."

[hello12]

Six weeks to port this game from dx11 to dx12 devs are going to use dx12 immediately if they can.

The noticeable improvements when the game switched to dx12 was with the lighting, physics, particle effects, more characters on screen and frame rate.

Graphics looked the same to me but it was just port at the end of the day.

[Mikefizzled]

One of the most prominent benefits of DX12 isn't the graphics, its the increased FPS you'll get.

[Nekroo91]

He thinks DX12 will add magical power from somewhere

DX 12 will improve coding but it doesent add power, they are just able to use that power correctly without going to waste, in a way you can improve graphics of course cause if you use less resources for one thing, you can use them to improve others.

But if you have a low end gpu and cpu you will still have low quality graphics.

@MELMAN you're seeing footage from a super high end pc, everyone knows that pc wastes alot of power because of coding and dx will fix that. The X1 has a low end cpu and gpu and its already coded to the metal, but it will still improve it

[Bimkoblerutso]

Well, then this is perhaps not the best example of the power of DX12. There seemed to be around a 3-4 fps increase at any given time in the jump from 11 to 12, WELL short of the reported 50% - 70% increase that Microsoft has been alleging since they announced the partnership.

[IrishSt0ner]

Complete BS, you couldn't possibly be more wrong if you tried.. DX12 means I can now stack my Intel intergrated graphics with Nivida GTX, I can stack VRAM and I can also stack another AMD card into the system.

So instead of using one vendor, limited to the VRAM of one card.. I can stack an APU with multiple graphics cards from both AMD and NIVIDA. This is a huge jump in graphical ability, the biggest there ever has been.

That's along with the massive increase in FPS.

[Bigpappy]

@Mikefizzled: Actually you are very wrong. It does help with Graphics. Lighting, effects and more Polly's all help to improve graphics. You, like many here, are thinking resolution which is more reliant on raw bandwidth.

DX12 does much more than just increase FPS. Please read about the API before posting false information.

KNWS is correct also to point out that this game was ported to DX12 and not built on DX12. There is a big difference, and Phil Spenser has been consistent in pointing out that porting alone will not get you the full benefits of DX12. Game have to be built for DX12 to use many of its features.

[ProjectVulcan]

The biggest advantage is probably the number of CPU draw calls. Draw calls means putting different things into a frame, lots of variety of objects and geometry. PC always had a problem with this aspect. Artists want to put lots of variety in there.

This is one area where consoles have always had the edge, because they are close to the metal you could always spam loads of draw calls and not worry about slowing your engine down, do it on a PC game running on older DirectX versions and it just destroys their framerate and overloads your CPU.

Even on the previous consoles you could hit up to 20,000 draw calls without hurting yourself too much, if you did just 1/5th (literally just 4,000) of that on an old DirectX API then you started to get in a real mess performance wise on PC.

DX12 fixes that. Here you can see a video touting 10k+ draw calls, this is massively impressive and simply not possible on PC before DirectX 12.

[n4rc]

nekroo

if you arent wasting power, you gain it... duh ;)

[CYCLEGAMER]

So I guess dx12 still isn't gonna "do anything" for the xbox 1 huh? Can we put this notion to bed now??

I mean...my tablet, PC, cell phone etc...gets a boost, why wouldn't the xb1? The xb1 does not have a dx12 blocker in it...lol

[Fishy Fingers]

Think that subject has been a bit of a broken record on N4G. We can we just wait and see.

But the main draw of Dx12 is about giving low level optimisation to PC hardware like consoles already have/do.

[CYCLEGAMER]

The proof is right there what else do you need? There are several devs who have talked about it, there are several videos proving it helps the xb1...what else do they have to do??

[maybelovehate]

Main draw is it allows multi-core cpu support, this was the biggest handicap of dx11 is that you could only use one cpu core. Low level api's are nice though too.

[Moldiver]

"But the main draw of Dx12 is about giving low level optimisation to PC hardware like consoles already have/do."

Indeed. But the X1 was also designed to take advantage of DX12. it currently uses a mixture of DX11 and bits of DX12 ( DX12 is still not finalized after all)...its not unreasonable to assume that the API that was X1 was actually designed for, will show improvements over the current situation....

And before any nut jobs jump the gun, I said it will improve the X1s game performance NOT magically make it more powerful....Its laughable that I even have to put that last statement out there, but you know how dumb people get on here, over DX12.

[Fro_xoxo]

2 engineers
6 weeks
porting from DX11 to DX12...

Impressive.

I look forward to the benefits of DX12 on XO whether little or large.

[christocolus]

6weeks is impressive. The developers of idarb and shovel knight said similar stuff about dx12 back at the January MS Windows event. The api will definitely make porting from games from PC to xbox one a lot easier for devs.

[jetlian]

this the asian version of smite. I just got 2 codes for smite a few days ago. Its good, tho l had a bad god or l suck lol.

been looking at this for a year hope it comes here. l know china is getting it

[Rock31]

Dx12 on xo not a big different like spencer said but you can see that there will be a huge difference like the dev are all saying...

[Gilgamesh15]

This video was about Cryengine and PC, but take notice of who brings X1 into the conversation. As always its the detractors.

[Ron_Danger]

Or it's that XBox 1 is one of the article tags. Fanboys and detractors didn't bring it up, the submitter did.

[Moldiver]

Oh...but it WILL be brought up. This is N4G.

Good to hear they can port this quickly and will very little man power needed. Bodes well for swift PC to xbox ports, in the future.

[Ron_Danger]

@mold

I wasn't saying it would or wouldn't be brought up... Of course it will cause like you said, is n4g.

I was just pointing out that the article submitter brought it up first unlike what Gilgamesh stated.

I'm not trying to push a fanboy agenda (I turn 31 tomorrow and I'm getting way too old to care about that stuff), I'm just pointing out that there are people on this site that post reactionary comments based on what they think vs. what's actually on screen.

[SunnyZ]

This is gonna be a game changer. Literally...

[Cherchez La Ghost]

I'm going to give credit where credit is due. MS overhaul of Windows and making it one ecosystem that you can also port to Android & iOS is impressive. You came a long way MS.