Posted on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 18:13 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
PCGamer
reports Crytek won't leave PC gamers in the cold when Crysis 3 hits the market on February 19, 2013. The game developer confirmed that the PC version of Crysis 3 will ship with a high-resolution texture pack, and will offer a wide range of graphics settings and DX11 support.
Is there any specific technical area of the game that’s been enhanced since C2?
Corbetta: As I mentioned, Crysis 3 will already ship with hi-res textures, advanced graphics settings, tessellation and DX11 support. Additional tech areas that have been enhanced since Crysis 2 are: AI navigation system, animation system, water, fog volumes, cloud shadows, POM, AA, cloths, vegetation, particles, lens flares and grass.
For Crysis 3, the past year has involved a lot of performance and memory optimization work on many areas and for all platforms, as well as work on the rendering side. One of our big goals was to improve image quality, and a lot of work went into developing several DX11 based anti-aliasing techniques for PC, which means gamers will now be able to pick their favorite—this is relatively involved on a deferred-based engine, since it involves selecting every technique and accessing multi-sampled buffers, versus the usual “flip the switch” approach. On top of an improved tessellation system we’ve also introduced character/vegetation tessellation—and since tessellation performance was still not optimal for the level of detail we wanted to achieve, we also did research into different areas and introduced what we called “Pixel Accurate Displacement Mapping” for macro details with nice real-time self-shadowing.
Here’s what you’ll see if you click on “Advanced Graphics Options” in Crysis 3.
Game Effects
Object
Particles
Post Processing
Shading
Shadows
Water
Anisotropic Filtering
Texture Resolution
Motion Blur Amount
Lens Flares
