Fallout 4 General and Mod Discussion. It Just Works!

[Crimson13]

I believe it is, looking at systemrequirementslab says that Win7/8/10 64bit is required even as the minimum.

[EssArrBee]

The new consoles are all 64-bit, so it only makes sense they made the switch. I don't think we've really seen what the game can look like on a PC yet. Someone will probably put up some nice 60FPS vids on a decent gaming rig. I'm interested to see if MS pushes Bethesda to add DX12 support. That new feature to use any two GPUs is pretty insane. Never though I'd see the day that you could use an AMD and Nvidia card together.

[Aiyen]

Mixing hardware vendors... what could possibly go wrong! :) 

Fond memories of the early days of "plug n play" comes rushing back... 

[EssArrBee]

Mixing hardware vendors... what could possibly go wrong! :) 

Fond memories of the early days of "plug n play" comes rushing back... 

Initial testing was pretty good. https://www.anandtech.com/show/9740/directx-12-geforce-plus-radeon-mgpu-preview

[Aiyen]

I think I am going to stand over here in the skeptic corner and just ask... but why? At least for a while yet. 

Got to admit that other than for the sake of doing it, I do not really see that much point for the average consumer. 

[TechAngel85]

I can think of...well...two reasons. Price is the first since AMD tends to be less expensive. The other is for AMD users to get Nvidia cards for specific features of those cards. I can see an AMD user running a mid-range Nvidia card as just a physics processor.

[EssArrBee]

Almost all multi-GPU tech requires two of the same cards. Now you can do it with any two cards. Buy a new card and relegate the old one to the secondary card slot.

[Greg]

I can think of...well...two reasons. Price is the first since AMD tends to be less expensive. The other is for AMD users to get Nvidia cards for specific features of those cards. I can see an AMD user running a mid-range Nvidia card as just a physics processor.

Does this mean Nvidia finally stopped disabling the physics processor if it detects an AMD GPU?

[Guest]

[Neovalen]

Ooh new file formats... and lots more of them compared to the old.

[GrantSP]

Ooh new file formats... and lots more of them compared to the old.

How much do want to bet they are just BSAs with a different compression setting?

[Octopuss]

Looks like the textures are really bigger this time (not necessarily of higher quality from what I could see in some of the screenshots though :(). I thought the game was significantly bigger because of more voice stuff, but it seems like it's not the case. I'm really curious about the launch.

[dreadflopp]

Review posted early by mistake:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.ibtimes.com/fallout-4-review-dangers-hype-video-2174132

[Aiyen]

Ofc. ideally the whole multi card thingy sounds good on paper.. but let us be honest, will there be any incentive from AMD and Nvidia to actually work together for the benefit of the consumer? Or is it more plausible that they will continue to try to develop features that are unique for their own architectures,and introduce limitations on the hardware level that will prevent this nice gesture from being what it could be. 

I hope to be proven wrong, but well corporate interests being what they are and all... 

 

On another note... any conclusions on what the native resolution and compression formats on the textures are yet? And is it still all nif mesh format? 

[Guest]

Review posted early by mistake:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.ibtimes.com/fallout-4-review-dangers-hype-video-2174132

Yeah read it yesterday. It's terrible. The reviewer basically says you will enjoy it if you are a fan, but not a newcomer. What a stupid line to put in a review based on nothingness. Also, this idiot spoils the beginning, you have been warned!

 

Not that I heard Aiyen. Expect 1-2k. I hope they do a better dds format which improves artefacts, but I don't think there are plugins for those formats in terms of PS/GIMP. The work flow of PBR textures will need to be picked up too. It may be interesting.

Edited November 8, 2015 by Guest