D+PAD Magazine Writes:
Despite the demise of Blackrock Studios and Bizarre Creations hanging over it like a black cloud, the arcade racing genre has been incredibly well served by this generation of consoles. The likes of Burnout Paradise, Split/Second, Blur, Driver: San Francisco and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit all being among the genre’s very best; and with Ridge Racer: Unbounded, Bugbear Entertainment is hoping to join them. But does this latest iteration of the much loved franchise throw the baby out with the bath-water or is it an inspired new beginning?
FanBolt writes: "I recently got my hands on the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and have immediately fallen in love with the quality of this card. But the feature I’ve enjoyed playing around with the most is the new DSR setting."
Go into the Nvidia control panel under Manage 3D Settings and on the global settings tab a little ways down you will find the "DSR-Factors" and "DSR-Smoothness" settings. These settings dictate the rendering resolution that is downsampled from and the sharpness/blurriness of the gaussian filter that is applied during the downsampling.
I think it is a really amazing feature. It's easy to use and it works very well. It's like having SSAA as an option in basically every game, even DirectX 11 and deferred rendering-based games. It's not exactly the same thing, but it really helps to clean up the image quality.
DSR was just added to the 6xx and 7xx cards through drivers.
In the GeForce Experience click the game, then below the options showing what you have vs optimized, there is a wrench, click it.
Then on the top left is a resolution option, click that and on the drop down menu, scroll up to the the top to see DSR scaling.
The only issue with it is when used in some games the HUD doesnt move.
But Im sure game updates might solve that :)
Cant wait to use it on assassins creed in a few weeks
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I've tried it on my 760 & in all honesty it's not making any noticeable difference so I've switched it off & not bothering with it any more.
I game at 1080p as its the highest my monitor will go. I Used this DSR to play a few games at 4k but all it really did was decrease input sensitivity. After a good few retries & several close up inspections it does improve it but the difference is minute going on microscopic. At least on a 22" screen anyway, I would image it would be more noticeable on a bigger screen.
The biggest area of improvement will be in the edge-quality and filtering textures and alpha'd models. Look at the Crysis screenshots and pay attention to the foliage.
I see very little difference between the 1080p and the downsampled 4k. Frankly I can't tell much of a difference between my 1080p and my 1280p monitor, except for one being given 21" and the other being 30". Resolution past 1080p is the least important part of graphics. I think it's really about HDR, high def textures, number of polygons in a model, number of objects on screen, physics ..... We need to start putting increased horsepower to use improving gameplay. More enemies on screen, fully destructible environments, massive open world's, human like AI. The good news is a lot of this can be done server side. AI, massive persistent world's a and per the Crackdown demo, massive destructible environments. Wonder when we will get a mmo that looks like Crysis 3, has human fee liking AI like for a 5, destructible environments like Battlefield and particle/object physics like Crackdown. Also need to get rid of the redundant fetch quests and kill 20 spiders and replace with a great plot/story like BORDERLANDS or Balders Gate.
I should have done more examples putting them side by side like this: http://www.fanbolt.com/?att...
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It's EPIC man, enjoy! Just make sure you try approach each fight differently or it will become very much a game of deja-vu...
The story though... wow!
the racing itself comes across as a fairly uninspired blend of Burnout, Blur and Split/Second
AND THAT BE A GOOD REASON NOT!!! TO BUY IT.
clone of craptastic BLUR AN SPLIT/SECOND