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Crytek Talks Ryse Tech: Consoles vs PC, Textures Resolution, Mantle, VRAM Specs, LOD Solution

A couple of days ago, we had the pleasure of interviewing Nicolas Schulz, principal rendering engineer at Crytek’s main studio in Frankfurt. Nicolas shared with us some new information about the PC version of Ryse and CRYENGINE itself. In addition, Nicolas shared some of his thoughts regarding current-gen consoles and PCs . Kudos also to Crytek’s Jens as without him this interview wouldn’t be possible. Enjoy!

DSOGaming: Before we begin, please introduce yourselves to our readers.

Nicolas Schulz: Hello everyone, my name is Nicolas Schulz, I am a principal rendering engineer at Crytek’s main studio in Frankfurt. During the development of Ryse: Son of Rome for Xbox One and later on for PC, I was to a large degree in charge of the rendering technology used for the game.

DSOGaming: Crysis 3 was nominated as our most optimized PC title in 2013. Will the PC version of Ryse: Son of Rome be up to the standards set by your previous game, and can we expect even more PC graphical options to tweak/adjust this time around?

Nicolas Schulz: To achieve the quality level that we desired on the Xbox One, we had to continue optimizing the engine after shipping Crysis 3. Techniques like SSDO or Realtime Local Reflections are a fundamental part of the Ryse rendering pipeline and we had to make them efficient enough to run well on lower spec hardware. We are making heavy use of some DX11 features like Compute Shaders, which however, perform better on some hardware architectures than others, so there will be some noticeable performance gaps between different desktop GPUs. Regarding the available custom graphics options, they are similar to what we had in Crysis 3.

DSOGaming: Crysis 3 PC is still considered one of the most beautiful games on any platform. So, do you consider the PC version of Ryse: Son of Rome to be on par with – or even surpass – Crysis 3 PC?

Nicolas Schulz: Ryse represents the latest evolutionary step of CRYENGINE and we improved our rendering pipeline in almost any respect during the transition to the next generation. While Ryse is naturally more advanced from a technology perspective, Crysis 3 has a very beautiful and unique artistic style, so it is up to everyone to decide by themselves which visuals they prefer.

DSOGaming: Can you go into more tech details about the graphical features of Ryse: Son of Rome? (number of simultaneous light sources, Parallax Occlusion Mapping and Screen Space Reflections support, whether it will have a full dynamic shadowing system, Global Illumination solutions, what size textures do you use on the highest settings, how many polygons are your average and most detailed characters, etc.)

Nicolas Schulz: One of the major upgrades that we made for Ryse is the transition to Physically Based Shading (PBS) which helped us to achieve more believable surface materials. This transition meant fundamental changes not only to our rendering pipeline but also to our entire asset creation and lighting workflows. Indirect lighting including reflections is an essential contribution for PBS, so Screen Space Reflections in combination with environment probes have become an integral part of the rendering pipeline. Due to the vastly increased memory on the new consoles, we were able to increase our texture resolution to an average of 512 texels per meter, compared to 256 texels per meter in Crysis 3. Polygon counts for in-game characters are around 40K for the first LOD and going up to 85K for hero characters.

DSOGaming: Tech wise, what’s the key graphical feature of Ryse: Son of Rome that you are mostly proud of?

Nicolas Schulz: Besides the quality of surface materials and character faces in particular, there are also some great advances in realtime simulation. All of the Romans have simulated cloth and Marius has a plenty of physicalized details on his armor that behave convincingly as the player moves.

DSOGaming: CRYENGINE rivals Unreal Engine 4, Frostbite, Dunia, FoxEngine and AnvilNext. Do you feel that it has what it takes to rival them? What’s your future plans for it tech wise? And what new graphical features will you introduce in order to give developers the tools to create truly next-gen visuals?

Nicolas Schulz: With the Crysis series and Ryse we have shipped some of the arguably most advanced titles in respect to technology, so CRYENGINE has definitely proven to be a very powerful engine. Besides further enhancements to the overall image quality, a major focus will be on workflows and pipelines to make the engine more accessible to everyone and improve production times.

DSOGaming: Ryse: Son of Rome will support Mantle. Can you tell us the benefits of using AMD’s latest API? Do you believe it can co-exist with DX12 that is almost upon us?

Nicolas Schulz: Ryse is entirely based on DX11 and is shipping without Mantle support but this won’t have any negative impact on the experience.

DSOGaming: On September 4th, you announced the PC system requirements for Ryse: Son of Rome. A lot of our readers were troubled about the recommended VRAM requirement (4GB of VRAM). According to Marcel Hatam, however, 4GB of VRAM are recommended for 4K gaming. So what kind of GPU (and VRAM) will PC gamers need for 1080p at max settings?

Nicolas Schulz: That depends a lot on what framerate you want to achieve. For 60 FPS you will definitely need a high-end GPU. For 30 FPS our recommended GPU configurations will be sufficient. Regarding VRAM, we adjust our texture pool based on the available graphics memory. While the maximum pool size is used with 3 GB of VRAM, 2 GB are enough to achieve great quality. Below that, we have to downscale some of the heavy textures a bit.

DSOGaming: Ryse: Son of Rome was timed exclusive to Xbox One and ran at 900p and 30fps. The PC version, on the other hand, will support 4K and 60fps. Do you believe that current-gen consoles (Xbox One and PS4) are far behind high-end PCs? And did Xbox One limit the things you could achieve with Ryse? Would the game look more beautiful and more impressive if it was developed as a PC exclusive title as the original Crysis was back in the days?

Nicolas Schulz: The current generation of high-end GPUs is unfortunately still far from being able to reach 60 FPS at 4K resolution. Please keep in mind that with 4K versus 1080p, you have four times the amount of pixels that need to be shaded. This is very quickly saturating the available bandwidth. The consoles are clearly behind high-spec GPUs in terms of raw horsepower, however on the positive side, they share the same modern architecture which enables a wealth of interesting optimization techniques. Due to the console differences we had to work a bit harder on the final optimizations but I’m happy that we never had to sacrifice any visual quality.

DSOGaming: Xbox One’s architecture is said to be similar to the PC. Which obviously brings the question: was it easier to bring Ryse from Xbox One to the PC than – let’s say – a game from X360 to PC? And did this architectural similarity give you the means to further optimize the PC version of the game?

Nicolas Schulz: The similarity does definitely help, although back then the Xbox 360 and its graphics API were not that far from PC either. CRYENGINE being a multi-platform engine made the port relatively easy, especially since we always maintained a PC version for production and development. Most of the optimizations that we made for the Xbox One version do greatly help on PC as well.

DSOGaming: The first Crysis game was a title with unbelievable (for its time) visuals and physics. And while Crysis 3 looks incredible, it did not feel as ground-breaking – visually – as the original part. Will you ever create a similar game that will push the graphical boundaries to new heights or do you feel that something like what Crysis achieved back in 2007 is not possible today?

Nicolas Schulz: I think with its advances in material quality, lighting and the quality of facial animations, Ryse is extending the boundaries of realtime graphics quite a bit again. Generally though, as opposed to the times of the original Crysis, we as an industry have reached a quality level now where it is getting increasingly more difficult to really wow people. That said, there’s still enough areas to explore and we will definitely keep pushing the boundaries as much as possible.

DSOGaming: Lately, we’ve seen titles suffering from noticeable pop-in of objects. While some games have higher LOD levels, every game – more or less – suffers from it. What’s really puzzling us is that while dynamic tessellation basically solves this problem by varying the level of detail on the fly, no one has ever used it. What’s your opinion on dynamic tessellation and have you experimented with it in order to eliminate object popping?

Nicolas Schulz: Hardware tessellation does help with the polygon density problem to some degree but we also have other performance metrics to look at, like the number of drawcalls. For LOD meshes we are usually not just reducing the triangle count but also merge materials and submeshes to reduce drawcalls and improve the rendering costs on the CPU.

DSOGaming: Will Ryse: Son of Rome feature a FOV slider, as well as an option to enable/disable mouse acceleration/smoothing?

Nicolas Schulz: We won’t have a FOV slider as the field of view is adjusted dynamically by the game’s camera system. On the input side you have control over the mouse sensitivity.

DSOGaming: Thank you very much for the interview, any last words you want to share with our fans?

Nicolas Schulz: Not rendering related, but if you get the opportunity to play Ryse I’d say it’s very rewarding to master the finer points of the combat system and try to perfect your timing as you flow from one enemy to the next – that way you’ll earn maximum rewards, as well as maximum satisfaction!

  • B_I_T

    Nice interview thanks :D

    • http://steamcommunity.com/id/BrainFlush BrainFlush

      Serious or sarcastic. I agree. They may have lost their way to a certain point but at least they still recognize PC as the leader in tech. Here’s hoping to more games using PC to showcase what is possible. Like always.

  • Hector

    I love this interview. “ryse will use mantle. tell us about that –no, it won’t”
    “yeah, the weak xbone only achive 900p at 30fps, while pc will have 4k at 60fps — nah. in your dreams”

    • Psionicinversion

      it was already confirmed it wasnt using mantle days ago lol maybe even a week ago lol. The PC can achieve 4K 60fps with 2 or 3 GPU’s in not costly at all hahaha. Wont see a GPU come close till 2nd gen pascal or AMD’s offering. Seem the HBM memory will be better than if its struggling because it hasnt got enough bandwidth to

  • FasterThanFTL

    Good interview. Would like a similar interview with Far Cry 4 dev(s) if possible.

  • SlutMagnet

    DSO’s interviews are always interesting. Regarding tessellation, it’s OK. That’s it. It won’t make your low-poly models in to CG-quality models. It was used in Crysis 3, and while it did its thing, it didn’t completely hide the fact that some of the geometry was fundamentally low-poly.

    • guest

      Nice Wife :)

      • PcRules

        F*CK NO!!
        LOL.. just kidding :D

      • SlutMagnet

        The wife appreciates. ;)

  • WAHID

    As always great review, thanks.

    • OvidiuGOA

      what review?

  • Sandy Bridge

    graphics pop in sucks

    definitely my most hated graphical artifact of modern times

    it makes for good screenshots to have LOD but in motion it kills immersion

    • Jinx 01

      I did notice that Nvidia’s newer shader cache option helps that for me since I have an old CPU (Phenom II 1090T). Improves the framerate and gets rid of the stutter in Skyrim, Saints Row 3, and some other more open games.

      I can’t believe how awful it is in console games. I saw some video of Thief on PS3 and sh*t was popping into view so close to you it was just… jarring. I can see it actually affecting gameplay because you might plan a route and suddenly something pops up blocking you lol

  • Dikan45

    The consoles are too weak imo, I’d rather have paid more for more power personally, 30 fps is just not good when you’re used to 60fps+

    • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

      You’ve finally come out of your denial, it’s what we’ve been saying for a long time.

      • Dikan45

        What denial? You’ve never heard me saying consoles were better!

        • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

          You’re always replying to Dakan45 about it, you even have a name like him and I’ve never seen you properly talk about PC games and properly engage in discussion about PC games.

          I wonder if Derp will call you mentally ill for your comment.

          • Dikan45

            You’re the one in denial that 3 systems aren’t better than 1 and I don’t engage here much because I don’t like the whole master race tone around here

          • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

            What 3 systems do you refer to? Are you claiming having 3 consoles is better than having 1 PC for some reason?

          • Dikan45

            Both next gen consoles and a PC, I’m not getting into it with you again

          • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

            Have you got a console and which one or more? I mean you never shared you specs to us PC gamers, what’s you problem?

          • Dikan45

            Maybe because I’ve never got into a sensible conversation with anyone on here, to me and the other pc guys i play online with they don’t represent PC gamers, they represent internet trolls! Look at the comments on here ffs

          • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

            Now is the time to start then, start with something positive to say about the topic at hand on PC.

          • Dikan45

            Nah I’ll leave you all to your trolling

          • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

            Fine, then accept your fate and keep on making it worse instead of actively bringing something proper to the conversation.

          • Dikan45

            Conversation? Consoles are lame PC’s are good yadder yadder! I’m not missing much am I let’s be honest?

          • Durka Durka

            yet you prefer to troll us here and keep coming back here.

            MAKES SENSE.

            Go to dualshockers where if you say anything negative about sony you are been crucified, such freedom of speech.

          • Dikan45

            The console fanboys are almost as bad as you lot and I haven’t trolled any articles! Do you know what trolling even is? I’m not going anywhere either, why should I? Go stalk someone else now anyway you’re getting weird again!

          • Durka Durka

            Yeah but dualshockers and gaminbolt such sensible conversations here.

            Come on grow up.

          • Dikan45

            Do you see any of my comments on either of those sites joining in with any fanboys?

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            Derp’s off posting elsewhere calling us a “hateful mentally ill cult”

            There are levels of irony here that no human will ever be able to understand.

          • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

            Anyone who goes around calling people “mentally ill” like he does is mentally ill, that’s the irony.

          • Guest

            BINGO! QFT!

          • Guest

            Fun fact is, he does this 24/7. Look at the amount of posts he’s made since he made the demfax account in June, well over 10 thousand and that’s just the one account. Either he’s being paid by Sony to do it or he just doesn’t have a proper life. Either way, he’s the ultimate loser at real life.

          • Durka Durka

            he is mentalyl ill thas all.

          • Durka Durka

            He is mentally ill, some guy was called a xbot and he gave him his psn and derp send him angry long rant voice messages.

            I got pictures.

          • Psionicinversion

            wheres he posting? i might go harrass him quickly before doctor who is on :d

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            Wherever there is someone in a disqus comments section making fun of Sony. He is there with his rehearsed script.

            Mostly Dualshockers though.

          • Guest

            Because that’s the only place where the low IQ $0N¥ paupers don’t see through his mental illness.

          • Psionicinversion

            cant go after him on dualshockers cus i was banned again need to leave it abit :P

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            Got banned from there months back. The guy who runs it has the most thin skin ever. Hilarious really. But as our buddy says. Looks like he’s on VG 24/7 now they have disqus.

          • Psionicinversion

            ive got banned there 3 times now hahaha i may be back there i may not be back there thats all im going say :D

          • Guest

            Derp is Guiseppe’s little b*tch lapdog.

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            Hahaha. I get what you mean.

            I wish I could post those downgraded Driveclub screens over there. The Sony peasants are freaking and pretending they don’t exist all over the internet.

          • Psionicinversion

            ive got a PS4 so ill be able to see then myself with a nice 47inch TV so i can spot everything. So far infamous sux highly overrated, KZ not to bad but the gfx are nothing to shout about and Destiny…. pffft it may as well not come to PC cus its boring overhyped extremely repetitive rubbish

          • Durka Durka

            make a new acount, use TOR and post them.

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            Did it before. Giuseppe is so rump roasted he simply bans you before you can even post if you even have a vaguely PC gaming related name thanks to me.

          • Durka Durka

            dont have a pc related name.

          • Durka Durka

            banned? That site has no freem of speech whatosever.

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            You are allowed to criticize anything except Sony. And then Guiseppe goes into massively upset rants about how much he hates platform fanboys but he sure won’t ban the bigger offenders unless they are PC gamers since they are the ones who give him hits. And he is still begging for people to upvote his garbage site on N4G because now all the “insiders” are gone. He has no exclusive content.

          • Durka Durka

            i got screenshots of guissepe getting mad at articles on n4g that criticize sony.

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            He does that almost every day.

            Hardcore Gamer just banned me for schooling derp because he kept screaming the Driveclub downgrade doesn’t exist while I posted pictures of it.

            Sony shills are spectacularly mad at it because it was supposed to be the “U JELLY MUSTARDS. PCFATS BTFO” game for them. Now it looks like Need For Speed The Run got re-released.

          • Durka Durka

            Hardcore gamer is another site i wont visit after duashockers gamingbolt,gamepur and cinemablend. its funny all the disquss sites outhere are biased.

            On the other hand if the ponies try to pull that sht on gamespot or gametrailers they get put in their place.

          • Durka Durka

            he is on twinfinite in shadow of mordor if you looking for him. He pasted his copy and paste nonsense.

          • Guest

            VG247. Has been for a while because he knows he’s being ridiculed all over like the ultimate loser at real life that he is. He’s now using the accounts “demfax” and “You are flat out wrong”. It’s all him, same as ps4lol and extremederp and many other accounts. He’s also the one upvoting pro-Sony comments all over the net with zero post dummy accounts.

          • Psionicinversion

            trying to hunt him down :D

          • Guest

            He’s on one of the Forza Horizon 2 posts claiming that he’s going to buy an Xbox One, when we all know better. He can’t afford it.

          • Psionicinversion

            right ok you got a link cus its not very well organized?

          • Guest

            Yeah, that site is an absolute layout mess. No wonder he’s trying to hide there.
            www(dot)vg247(dot)com/2014/10/03/forza-horizon-2-livery-sharing-not-working/

          • Psionicinversion

            found a better one /2014/10/02/how-forza-horizon-2-hopes-to-break-free-of-the-next-gen-rat-race/

            he is using demfax and flat out wrong haha

          • Guest

            Exactly, now look at the upvotes his post and YAFOW’s get. They’re all grey dummy accounts with zero or near zero posts like “Neurosurgeon” (a job which he would never get with his low IQ), etc, etc. It’s hilarious how desperate he is.

          • Psionicinversion

            im trolling the cr”p out of him hahaha

          • Guest

            The best thing is to just point out the dummy account upvotes making other people aware of his pauperdesperation. Then people will start to notice even more what a loser freak he is.

          • Psionicinversion

            We scored a win for PC gamers everywhere this week…. we managed to properly screw up PGI’s crowdfunding for an scifi Persistent Universe called Transverse. out of $500,000 first goal they achieved 2% and give up 1 week before the end :D

            Was ripping off SC, Eve and probably a few others, just another cash grab shut down :D They showed absolutely no work just some rubbish CG trailer with extremely basic concept. Hopefully its put any investors off as well.

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            He’s trying to ignore the Driveclub downgrade screenshots.

            Call him “San Mateo” and it drives him nuts as well. So include a Driveclub shot and call him “San Mateo” if you really want to screw with his head.

          • Durka Durka

            Why call him san mateo?

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            Sony headquarters is in San Mateo. He hates when you call him a shill from Sony headquarters.

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            Posted a bunch of Driveclub screenshots from the actual game which are downgraded to heck (And the PCMR sub is making fun of those as well). Watch him squirm and try pretend he doesn’t care and call you an xbot on the YAFOW account while going to the rehearsed script for Derp/Demfax. He’s so rump roasted over the driveclub downgrade I’m probably going to include the screens with every post I make.

          • Psionicinversion

            yeah you just got make sure there not took from a 720p stream capture otherwise they will do

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            These are direct 1080P Caps from the PS4. No matter how much he screams and cries about them. They are the real deal. Example.

            http://abload .de/img/dc12kno9d.jpg

            Already have one copy pasted reply. He’s booty blasted for sure.

          • Psionicinversion

            yeah doesnt look as good. ill have to find out on the 10th, will be downloading the free PS+ version. tut tut tut naughty driveclub. wonder if there will be linch mobs over it D:

          • corinthiansgo

            The Glorious PC Master Race

            lmao!

          • Durka Durka

            post the pics please, ill get to it

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            Complete the URL to get the pics. Have fun. Call YAFOW a “San Mateo shill” just to really annoy him. He’s utterly devastated and thinks it’s “Xbots” and “Redmond” because he can’t cope with it. Maybe he can use the images to cut himself (It is a “Driveclub has no AA joke”)

            http://abload .de/img/dc12cgsvi.jpg
            http://abload .de/img/dc8i4sc3.jpg
            http://abload. de/img/dc9elsmn.jpg
            http://abload. de/img/dc1011syi.jpg
            http://abload. de/img/dc11josix.jpg
            http://abload. de/img/dc13twstn.jpg
            http://abload .de/img/dcbeta615swk.jpg
            http://abload .de/img/downgradeclub50zs2h.png
            http://abload. de/img/downgradeclub6kjsp6.jpg
            http://abload. de/img/downgradeclub7uws0b.png

          • Psionicinversion

            ouch, im surprised those people arent cutting themselves on blades of grass!

          • Durka Durka

            No console fanboys bash shadow of mordor despite the fact 2 settings on ps4 are on medium

            digital foundry:

            For one, texture quality on both is equivalent to the PC’s high

            setting, making for a contrast in mapping quality when planted

            next to the ultra-HD artwork pack.

            both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One share the same geometry quality

            setting. Equivalent to the PC’s medium preset, this causes

            mountains and distant structures to pop-in at a set distance,

            always at the precise, same points on the road for both console

            One of the biggest is in shadow quality, where Xbox One employs

            lower-resolution, flickering shadows that match the PC’s medium

            standard. PlayStation 4, meanwhile, offers much sharper outlines –

            particularly on hand details as Talion presses to a wall, falling

            close to the PC’s high setting.

          • Durka Durka

            also i cant load any of those pics.

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            Complete the URL. For some reason John needs to manually approve comments with external URLS.

          • Durka Durka

            He now says that dsogaming is a xbot cult.

            Seriously that moron cant seperat xbots from pc gamers.

            He is really mesed up in the head.

          • Guest

            Derp is now harassing and trying to convince everyone on VG247 that he’s not a fanboy with the accounts “You are flat out wrong” and “demfax” spewing his $0N¥ pauper bullshit all over like he always does.

          • Durka Durka

            He is on dualshockers on the drivclub article making a list of “shills” that dissagree with his opinion and flagging their comments

            I am gathering people to contact disquss and inform them about
            xtremederp/ps4lol/not true/demfax and contact his isp so he cant make
            any more acounts on new ips.

            please consider going to disquss and contacting support about it.

          • Guest

            Derp will call anyone he disagrees with mentally ill because he himself is mentally ill. HE’s the ultimate loser at real life Sony fanboy. The true pauper. He keeps thinking people don’t know that “demfax” with an I’m always right icon, “You are flat out wrong”, “ps4lol” and “extreme derp” are all him. He even has conversations with himself or replies to others with another account by mistake and hopes people won’t notice what a loser he is. He even upvotes his own comments with zero post history dummy accounts. THAT is $0N¥ PauperStation desperation at its finest.

          • Psionicinversion

            yeah usually identified by copy and pasted stuff

          • Durka Durka

            I am gathering people to contact disquss and inform them about xtremederp/ps4lol/not true/demfax and contact his isp so he cant make any more acounts on new ips.

            please consider going to disquss and contacting support about it.

          • Guest

            We need his personal info first. Then we’ll make the proper arrangements.

          • Durka Durka

            what you looking for? i can find this guy who got his psn voice message and ask him to give me his psn.

          • Guest

            Make it so.

          • Psionicinversion

            theres always a way around it tbh, if hes that deranged theres no stopping him

          • Dikan45

            And yet you all see nothing wrong with bullying people, maybe discuss should be contacted about that!

          • Durka Durka

            WE bully people? Are you nuts? This is a pc site we keep it to ourselfs, as for bullying? Lol gaminbolt, dualshockers and many other sites are far worse than this.

          • Dikan45

            Is this you trying to ignore me and do you see me joining in on any of those sites? Don’t answer that I’d rather you ignored me just go look for any of my comments on any of those sites joining in with any fanboys!

          • Durka Durka

            thats 1

          • Durka Durka

            he sent to some poor guy voice rants on his psn once he gave him his psn to prove he is not a xbot.

            He is trully mentally ill. i am gathering people to email disquss to contact his is and ban him

          • Guest

            What we need is that PSN account. Then we’ll track down who he really is and expose that pauper to make him wish he was dead

          • Durka Durka

            the guys name is d0x360 he is the one who got the psn voice messages.

          • Guest

            Yes, I know, had the conversation with him a week or so ago, was hoping he did it to another person too. Apparently he even gave him his address. We need to talk to him about releasing that info.

          • Durka Durka

            hes he said that about wanting to meet in real lfie.

            I contacted him, but please contanct him yourself the more people contact him the more he reallizes that demfax is a huge problem.

          • Dikan45

            Online bullying, how big and clever of you all!! You need to stop deleting your comments to hide who you are(like it’s not obvious who you are anyway) or are you scared of getting banned? I don’t get the whole ‘pauper’ term when console gaming’s more expensive than PC gaming! Makes zero sense when you think about it don’t you think? Can you think? Judging by your lack of imagination it would seem you can’t! You could be called a ‘pauper’ for not being able to afford all the platforms!

          • Jinx 01

            I still don’t know why console gamers come to a PC-only gaming site. Nothing better to do than troll? Because that’s really all they do.

          • Dikan45

            I own a PC as well

          • Durka Durka

            ouch

        • Durka Durka

          yet you get so butthurt when we bash them.

          • Dikan45

            It’s the casual bullying that’s encouraged and somehow tolerated on this site that I object to! It’s clearly just a case of me being brought up better than you lot!

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            Actually we can spot shills from miles off and you are simply rump roasted at Dakan. So please shill elsewhere Sony shill.

          • Dikan45

            I’m not going anywhere numpty

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            Its OK. We’ll just point out you are a Sony shill every time You Are Flat Out Wrong.

            San Mateo so desperate they take people who do it for free

            >They take their job very seriously
            >They will never get paid because Sony is massively in debt

            http://i.imgur. com/NQfwxcp.jpg

          • Dikan45

            The ramblings of a mad man!

          • The Glorious PC Master Race

            We know. Sony shills are mentally ill :^)

          • Durka Durka

            You say i am the one who bullies and you are better than me but all i see is you trolling me.

            Please stop being a hypocrite.

          • Dikan45

            I’m trolling you? You’re the one replying to nearly every one of my posts, even some from weeks ago so maybe you need to look at yourself troll, my notification s are FULL of your replies!!

          • Durka Durka

            Not true i am trying to ignore you.

          • Dikan45

            I’ll show you how to ignore someone!

          • Durka Durka

            and thats 2, you said something about ignoring me

          • Durka Durka

            and thats 3.

            You talk about ignoring and replying to all your posts but thats exactly what you are doing.

          • Dikan45

            3 MORE notifications from the clown who says he’s trying to ignore me!

    • Durka Durka

      YOU DONT SAY??/

      Aslo because consoles are weak and ps3 had very little ram(yes i picked on sony here, but pay attention) games became very linear interactive movies.

      The basic premise is this scripted event happens, door closes behind the character so the engine can load the next area into the tiny ram.

      I remember reading that colonial marines was downgraded because the ps3 version was out of ram. Dont forget that ps3 intially was gonna use only a cpu, no gpu. So its a weird architecture.

      The good thing is that now both systems have a lot of ram and are similar to pc.

      The reason we got games like max payne 3, cod, tomb raider and overall linear games including tlou, uncharted (dont forget the previous naughty dog games in ps2 had large maps) was the low ram in consoles, especially on ps3. Look what happened to crysis 2.

      Id like to see that go away but with TLOU impact and games like the order i doubt it.

      Feel free to call me a troll and saying i picked up on sony again.

  • PcRules

    Wonderful interview as allways, and what I allways like most is your question about FOV slider and mouse settings. So keep pushing out those questions and tell the stupid devs that a FOV slider should ALLWAYS be present as a low FOV makes people sick!

    Thanks and peace out!

  • ArchnophobiA

    Dammit Crytek you try so hard to convince us to buy this game, but you need to know that not all of us have high end machine to play this game… please Crytek prepare yourself for another fail.

  • OvidiuGOA

    i hate 4K. it seems pointless right now to invest 4X the processing power just to have the same image only with more pixels. I would have liked that 4x extra performance to be spent in creating a better scene with more polygons etc not to just increase the resolution. I would much rather appreciate a game for giving me incredible graphics at 1080p than one that gives me ok graphics at 4K.

    • Yeltnerb1

      So you “hate” progress??? lol. No one is forcing you to game at a 4K resolution. Its just another option. PC gaming is all about options, options, options & computer graphics are ALWAYS improving. The amount whining in this comments section has become ridiculous.

      • OvidiuGOA

        did i say someone was forcing me to do something ? i just said the performance would be better spent somewhere else, in improving the scene detail and light rather than just upping the resolution for 4k. i am not ok with using 3 titans to run a scene that looks ok at 4k when i could be running an amazing looking and detailed one in 1080p.

        • jdwii

          I agree with you man, but i honestly think it is getting harder to impress people with graphics. Ray-Tracing is really the next HUGE thing and that still has awhile(maybe in 10 years).

          • OvidiuGOA

            let’s not forget Euclideon and sparse voxel octrees that run only in software.

    • corinthiansgo

      Peasant.
      – “image only with more pixels” : four times more.

      4k has nothing to do with Crytek, U can play any game at moment(with some mods) at 4k.

      4k is a AA tech killer…why wast so much raw horsepower with that crap effects if U can play at High settings with a simple GTX 970.

      Steam dayONE 4k FTW!

      • OvidiuGOA

        wtf did you just reply. First, f–k you for calling me a peasant and then failing to say anything remotely intelligent. I needed to read it from you just know to finally understand that “4k has nothing to do with crytek” and that i can play ANY game right now at 4k. Oh and that 4k means 4 times more pixels. You dude are amazingly insightful. The fact that these 2 sentences have nothing to do with anything i posted probably makes no importance to you. I did not managed to understand what the rest of your bullsh!t means and after your reply i am sure i do not care about your thoughts on the matter.

        • corinthiansgo

          mimimimi…U pointed out that all games at 4k arent good games…

          Theres something dumber than that!

          • Jinx 01

            You said “U” instead of “you” so you. It’s like reading texts from my mom.

          • corinthiansgo

            is his UR boy? lmao!

      • Jinx 01

        If you don’t care about framerate, or about having to *turn down graphics options* to keep it playable. And most games don’t have textures etc. high quality enough to really look good at 4K – and if they do, then VRAM requirements skyrocket even more. I’m not saying it isn’t cool, but it’s a MASSIVE jump compared to the usual incremental increases in resolution. 1440p is what we should be aiming for, not a *television standard*.

        • corinthiansgo

          Crysis 3 at high+FXAA at 4k is even better than my ancient 1080p monitor so…

          And I didnt SLI it yet!

          • Jinx 01

            That’s cool, but there’s no way most people could run at 4K even on medium settings.

          • corinthiansgo

            A $ 349 card can achieve 60FPS in Crysis3(High+FXAA)…thats cheaper than a PS4 for someone that already had a good rig.

            So most people can .

            Youtube: GTX 970 4G Crysis 4k ….

          • Psionicinversion

            You missing the point coding in a resolution has nothing to do with detail tbh. 4K has far more density making images more believable also you dont really need AA or low levels cus everything is so tightly packed the jaggies sort them selves out. The higher the detail of the texture increases the detail but also more GPU power is needed. Of course at 4K your also rendering ALOT more pixels which requires alot more bandwidth on top of the assets your rendering to. i think thats how it goes but a game like Star Citizen cus its got high res high fidelity textures it apparently does make a difference increasing resolution like 1440p/4K.

          • corinthiansgo

            Yep. A rig that can run Metro at 1080p/maxsett can run Metro at 4k at ultra+Msaa 2x. Tried it dayOne!

          • Jinx 01

            And you’re also missing Ovidiu’s overall point (which is a little different from mine). If you took the power spent on running at 4K, and put it toward making scenes more detailed and using a lot of advanced effects, and perhaps expanding the scope of levels to improve gameplay… that would be preferable to a lot of us.

            And I’m not saying 4K wouldn’t be awesome, but it’s still not realistic for most of us.

          • JoNaXKaY

            Nop nop nop nop nop. Never. You DONT mix fxaa at 4k. I mean what is the point to go 4k and blur all the image with a console low crap aa method. At that resolution you need 2x msaa maybe. Or no AA at all. I dont know how 4k games looks like… but i already know that i dont want fxaa on a clear and sharp 3840×2160 monitor. My 5 cents

          • corinthiansgo

            Setting MSAA a rig will need at least two high end cards…so id prefer no use AA if FXAA is that bad like u said.

            As for me …didnt notice it yet!

          • db87

            Just use the superior SMAA with Crysis 3. FXAA is too blurry

          • corinthiansgo

            yep. I was testing some new settings, at high(16x), smaa, motion(medium) and SMAA yelding 41-49FPS.

            Still a GTX 970 is a blast by getting such FPS alone. Julding that its somewhat between a 780 and 780ti!

            Yet we can say easily Crysis 3 still the king, because Ryse is a ok requirement, and Watch Dogs that today is even lighter than Witcher 2(ubber sampl on)

            i5 3570/EVGA gtx 970. i7 getting better results at 4k as I see even better FPS at youtube tests!

    • Jinx 01

      I agree. The problem with 4K, versus say 1440p, is that you’re going to waste a lot of effort pushing pixels that could be used enhancing the game in other ways. I’d rather play at 1080p/1440p at 60fps with the settings cranked than 30fps with everything on medium at 4K. Plus, like you said, you could use that horsepower to improve the game in other ways.

      And let’s just be honest – most PC gamers don’t even have to rig to run a lot of games at 1440p decently, much less 4K. I got a 4GB 760 with my eye on 1440p, but even with the extra RAM it’s a struggle in some games. Though it was still worth it for higher-quality textures. And thumb your nose at the 760 all you like, but it’s still probably better than what a lot of PC gamers have. The people who comment on sites like this tend to have considerably higher than average rigs I’d say.

      • JoNaXKaY

        Yo… and you needs to remember the big problem with dpi scaling in win 7 and win 8. In guru 3d they said that win 8.1 has some fixes but its not perfect.

    • Shider Popov

      What do you mean by “only with more pixels?” Are you OK in the brain?

      • OvidiuGOA

        what did you not understand ? Are there no more pixels in a 4k image than in a 1080p one. If so, what is wrong with your brain ?

        • Shider Popov

          Apparently what’s wrong is that I like it.

    • David Dewis

      Have you played a game at 4k yet? I use a 4k monitor with xfire 290s. Without AA on, which isn’t needed’ 60fps is achievable. The difference it makes is substantial, but hard to explain to people without them actually seeing it. Please keep an open mind until you get a go on it. Its the same as the jump from 480p of old tvs to 1080p a few years back. It truly is amazing behold.

      • OvidiuGOA

        first i have seen both pc monitors and played on them and 4k tv’s. Yes, when it comes to tv sets, you do see a difference in sharpness at close range on displays larger than 42″. If i move 3-4 meters away the difference is gone between let’s say a 1080p 55″ and a 4k one. It’s easy, it’s all about pixel size, at 100″ i think 4k is needed. I would not buy a 1080p 100″ display but i would get a 4k one. But when we talk about a 22″ or 24″ monitor it seems overkill for me just like more than 1080p is for 5-6″ phone displays. Of course after investing in 2 290 and whatever, you NEED to see the hugest difference in the world. Still I would prefer to see more detailed scenes rather than just upping the rez. To increase resolution is easy, i want to see cards used for amazing details not brute force pixel increase.

    • Reethm Baruah

      the difference is substantial
      although from a distance it feels like there is no difference at all from 1080p.
      keep in mind that a monitor is meant to be used by people sitting near it.
      and about the 4k televisions.
      the size of the modern televisions are too huge for 1080p while its okay from a certain distance, 4k enhances this greatly

  • Yeltnerb1

    4GB of VRAM for 4K, LOL!! Not enough if you actually wanna play the game at 4K, fools.

    • Amir

      stfu idiot

      • Yeltnerb1

        Another whiney b-tch who can’t accept THE TRUTH lol.

        • corinthiansgo

          Funny…then what resolution my monitor+970gtx is running Crysis 3 at High/avg53FPS…

          Damn samsung I want refund….lmao!

        • Amir

          truth ? lol, so the devs behind one of the more advanced technical games of all time are fools but you **** troll telling me the truth ? go ****yourself

  • Przemys?aw Zaworski

    And the most important question: cutscenes in PC version Ryse Sons of Rome will be prerendered like in XBOX ONE version or rendered in real time uses our powerful video cards ?

  • Jinx 01

    You should have asked how much time they spend on graphics technology versus gameplay and story. Do they even have writers?

  • Jinx 01

    UGH. Why do console games never seem to use texture filtering?! A racing game should have at least 4x AF at 720p, 8x at 1080p. You can use the best textures in the world and they will look like crap and an angle without anisotropic filtering.

    That really floored me with Watch Dogs PC, actually. Huge resources spent on textures, and no in-game anisotropic filtering so it was a blur-fest anyway without forcing AF in your control panel.

    • Ville N

      I don’t know, texture filtering takes absolutely no power with todays hardware. You can use none or 16x and have the same exact fps. Filtering is really important in racing games as there are flat textures far away looked at an angle.

    • corinthiansgo

      Peasant dev: texture filtering…whats that for?

    • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

      I don’t get it either, the PS4 has the TMUs and ROPS to do this, I mean it’s not like the Crysis days when AF x16 really hurt frame-rate in that game.

      • The Glorious PC Master Race

        Most likely it’s being choked by the processors and GDDR 5 only constraining bandwidth (Oh irony of ironies). All the enhanced architecture in the world won’t help you if you are trying to funnel everything through at once into a narrow pipeline. But then the PS4 has an obvious problem with texture filtering and most of their games of horrendous LOD pop in like Infamous and Driveclub.

        http://abload .de/img/2679160-ibqx1dnlrjbdpnbqrv.jpg

  • Jinx 01

    They pretty much are, I think. I mean, AMD’s cards have been DX11 since the HD5000 series, and that was what, five years ago? Then Nvidia right after. Not sure about the Intel HD series.

    What I like about DX11 is that a game properly built on it should also run better than DX9, all things being equal in terms of FX, because of the way the pipeline works.

  • corinthiansgo

    We could remove GTAV from this gif…but that delay…We will show off to R* and Consoles how to play it at 60FPS/4k!

  • The Glorious PC Master Race

    After a week where the Sony peasants were totally convinced it was running at 60FPS on PS4 and were tugging themselves off because the Xbone version might have been 720P 30FPS so they could gloat.

    Utterly hilarious.

    • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

      Want to hear something else hilarious? The R7 260X averages 40fps on very high, 1080p, R9 270 50fps. GTX 750 Ti, 35fps.

      R7 260X = £76, Dirt cheap card destroying the XB1 and matching PS4 in performance. LOL

      • Amir

        yeah, ir runs pretty well on most systems. my friend bougt it, it is cheap in here, around 25$, maybe i get it too. his avrage fps on Ultra (textures on high and AO on high) was 64fps, min 48fps, max 250fps. same exact system as me but not the same brand

    • Durka Durka

      so its 30 fps or unlcoked?

      • The Glorious PC Master Race

        30FPS with drops. Turned out the peasants saying it was unlocked were lying and noticing the framerate drops from 30FPS instead.

        • Guest

          Sony peasants always lie to spin news to their advantage against the Xbox One, yet they cannot realize that their peasant box is just as poor and has zero innovation, when at least MS does new things and improves their software at a tremendous rate. Sony can’t even get their NOTwork running stable with outtages or maintenance every other week

  • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

    Wow, that bad texture filtering, are you sure that’s XB1/PS4?

    • The Glorious PC Master Race

      Direct capture from the game using PS4’s screenshot feature. Sony fanboys are not happy at all.

      Has derp been banned from DSOG? Usually we’d get an avalanche of his copy paste by now.

      • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

        Looks like sh*t, direct captures show the true image quality of consoles, not like those bullshots and enhanced photo modes the games come with.

      • Durka Durka

        he is damage controling drivclub on dualshockers and flagging comemnts.

  • Amir

    add these too:
    Mesh on medium
    Shadows on Medium
    less advance tessellation

  • Durka Durka

    driveclub? They are damage controling that on dualshockers and flag people who dissagree, dat free speech.

    I got a similar pic for uncharted 3 but i dont wanna show it, too jaggy.

  • HighKillerDK

    The game looks fine, i would rather have stable framerate, decent graphics than AA and similar processes, just for the “visuals”

  • Durka Durka

    doubtfull.

  • Psionicinversion

    ive kind of found out he wont go against me, cus ill destroy him. But i wont destroy him the obvious way, ill destroy him in a way hes never seen before!!

  • lbnchrist .

    the mighty Crytek has fallen to the charms of console commercial money.not to waste too much time talking about this terrible xbox launch title but this will be little more than a PC cash grab.the guy in the interview complains about CPU overhead from draw calls which is the very problem that mantle solves but yet they could care less about optimizing the game with mantle. if Crytek actually cared they could have made the PC version look even better than the e3 demo using mantel optimizations. also this guy outright lied when he said no visual fidelity had to be sacrificed in developing this game for Xbox. YouTube and the internet is full of examples of where visual fidelity was compromised in the final game when compared to the e3 demo.