In an interview with PCGamesHardware, Ubisoft’s Technical Director Calle Lejdfors revealed that Tom Clancy’s The Division, like its predecessor, will support DirectX 12 alongside DirectX 11. Furthermore, and contrary to games like Resident Evil 2 Remake, it is said that the DX12 mode will run better/faster than DX11.
As Lejdfors told PCGamesHardware:
“Yes, we are still very much supporting DX12 and in TCTD2, DX12 performance over DX11 should be even better. This is in large part due to us making better use of Async Compute to parallelize more graphics work to ensure maximal GPU utilization. When it comes to performance, we are not pulling any punches and will make use of all tools in the toolbox. The only thing we do not yet have is variable rate shading, but rest assured that is an active area of research for future performance improvements.”
Given that DX12 can use multi-core CPUs more efficiently than DX11, we should also see better utilization – and framerates – in CPU-bound scenes. As such, it will be interesting to test both DX12 and DX11 modes when the game comes out and see whether PC gamers should use Microsoft’s latest API.
Ubisoft has also released some new screenshots for The Division 2 that you can find below.
The game is currently planned for a March 15th release!
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you know this is bad when even the bullshots that they post look trash. this is coming from ubisoft, a notorious company known by their misleading advertisements.
Ubisoft&Optimization those to never walk together 😀
It’s the same game + 2 PVP modes.
Still loot fest, bullet sponge enemies, the same over and over mission, shallow boring story all aspects typical to CrapSoft game.
That’s the most simplistic understanding of optimization I’ve ever seen.
The Snowdrop engine is extremely scalable and very efficient and that’s why this very site itself has reported in the past, in the TCTD PC Performance Analysis, that
“…the game scales incredibly well on older GPUs. Moreover, while the Snowdrop engine scales exceptionally well on multiple CPU cores, the game can run with constant 60fps even on a modern-day dual-core CPU (that supports Hyper Threading). Snowdrop is definitely among the best engines we’ve seen, so kudos to Massive Entertainment for achieving something like that.”
only me or graphic seem more ugly than first game?
It just look like farcry 2 or 3.
From my closed alpha i didnt like the graphics it felt worse than the first one even if it have higher texter and better effect it seems that this engine is not good at rendering grass and other stuff like this i palyed anthem and i played this anthem looks better in the jungle
The rain effects look pretty good though. I agree about the grass and foliage it never looked good in the first and doesn’t look good here either. The original Snowdrop engine videos showed much better looking foliage and grass scenes.
Looks ugly because has Chromatic Aberration enabled.A Aberration in graphic industry.
You are correct, I tried the technical alpha and the game looked vastly inferior to the alpha of the division. The skybox was laughable, a blurry texture of some clouds slapped on the sky, at night too, the stars were just a low-res image of some stars smacked on up there. Performance was terrible too, division 1 ran better in alpha stage. Indoor lighting was all messed up, it was nearly pitch black, couldn’t see sh*t.
No way! That is awesome news, can’t wait to play it.
Pew pew pew, thats all folks.
LEVEL UP
The New York winter look was better than this. The tone is too warm for a game about overthrowing a evil government.
and that game was massively downgraded
I disagree, Division wasn’t downgraded. It appeared to be, but I did extensive testing when the game came out and compared it to the E3 trailer. Some things changed yes, like the map, the UI, textures for cars etc. But the graphical effects and detailed world were all still there. However, they changed the color/TOD settings to look warmer and thus also made it look quite different, especially the color palette. With Reshade I managed to get pretty close to the E3 color palette, here’s an example I made:
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Yea but warm colors make sense there cause its a desert area. I’m just saying that colors in games make the mood. If you made Metro games look really warm instead of the dark and cold feeling it has it would have never gotten past the first game. Atmosphere matters and the main things in atmosphere or me are color and music.
It is about famn time.
Gotta laugh at Ubisoft having caught hell from the soyboy
journalistsfar Left activists who’ve infiltrated the shill media. These companies are seemingly destined to learn the hard way that once you start pandering to SJWs then you’re doomed because they’ll never, ever, be happy.CD Projekt RED is next.
The writing really is on the wall, after them capitulating and apologizing to lunatics for harmless social media posts.
Not to mention FIRING the social media manager who got doxxed and harassed by the same people they apologized to.
People ought to know that CDP’s social media HQ is in LA, I really hope this culture does not seep into the development team, but it seems like it’s an inevitable fate whenever a company gets too large and mainstream.
and then the quartering hired the guy to be the community manager of his exclusively games site and they harassed him, wrote articles about him, asked him if he was gamergate and called his father on the phone and started swearing at him. These people are totalitarians they dont want opposite opinions to exist.
If so, then it’ll be CD Projekt REKT.
The far left activists aren’t massive in numbers but they are very pushy about trying to bend everyone to their will. Especially in media since that reaches the most people. I see it in action even on a lot of websites these days.
I have been a Dr. Who fan for a long, long time and there was an article on Ars Technica a while back about the new Doctor being a woman. I simply made the comment that I didn’t see why the Doctor had to be a woman after so many decades and was immediately ganged up on by a handful of left wing nut-jobs.
It was comical to me but I think that kind of pressure does have an impact on the average person who just wants to get along with people even if it means giving a nod to views that they don’t fully agree with.
Precisely. The issue with video gaming is that certain games publishers pander to said far Left activists in the shill media because if they don’t then their games won’t be hyped to the same extent as they would otherwise be. Pandering to soyboy activists in the media is typically rewarded by more extensive and also more favourable coverage at the shill media sites in question.
Plus said activists tend to downmark review scores for games that don’t pander to their SJW beliefs which then adversely affects the Metacritic rating. Devs’ bonus payments are sometimes linked to Metacritic ratings of their games so if they don’t pander to SJW demands and the game consequently receives a lower Metacritic rating then they’ll be financially penalised by their publisher.
On a more positive note, at least more people are now waking up to the corruption and (always far Left-leaning) political bias among the activist so-called ‘journalists’ employed by the shill media. Also, as each day passes, legacy media continues to lose credibility and relevance in a world where ever-growing numbers of gamers choose to consult new media sources, e.g. YouTube ‘personalities’ and the like. Some YouTubers are of course also to be distrusted but I’d more readily trust in the views of those I respect plus user review ratings on Steam and Metacritic than I ever would when reading anything on a shill media site.
To your experience there, in the current insane political climate you should perhaps count yourself lucky that the site didn’t shadow ban you for having posed such a question. Even that of asking completely fair questions without commenting per se is enough to trigger the lunatics into claiming ‘offence’ has been caused in the expectation that weak-willed or SJW moderator will subsequently shut you down aka censor your freedom of speeh.
Yes, it was pretty clear that even though there were personal attacks on me there which violated the forum rules but went unmoderated that if I retaliated in a like manner then my post would probably be deleted and maybe even catch a ban. The intended recipients would probably never even see my post so there was no point in going further with it.
imo whenever you have a situation where a small minority are pushing their politically correct views on the majority then you have an unnatural situation that could fall apart but for now it seems the far left are getting away with it for the most part.
They don’t come to your home in person and knock on your door and start pushing their agenda but they do come to your home and push their agenda through tv shows, movies, the news, video games and books.
Ah, yes, the ‘tolerant’ Left who are typically willing and sometimes even inviting of intolerant behaviour being subjected on those who don’t share their political ideals. In common with totalitarian states (Soviet Union, Germany 1933-45, North Korea, etc) they are tolerant on the proviso that you march in lock-step with them.
So very true, 64K. They’ve become expert in shutting down dissenting views by way of exploiting people’s good nature and fear of being branded prejudiced. Sadly, their cries of ‘offence’ have become so frequent and predictable that we’re now at a stage whereby being called racist/sexist/homophobic is pretty much a meme that carries no significance outside of ‘safe space’ environments. I say “sadly” because it may now be more difficult for those who’ve suffered genuine discrimination to be believed.
Indeed. Also, the influence of their enablers in Silicon Valley cannot be discounted from the equation. When the likes of Google, Apple, Patreon, Facebook, Twitter, etc, are all on board then it’s not going to be easy to break the Left’s dominance of the culture wars. History fortunately tells us that these things go in cycles so the current insane situation will change one day.
what does this has to do with the division though?
Not on Steam, not on my PC.
Can’t understand people supporting developers that seek to remove consumer choice.
graphically this game looks like outdated poop
Good thing I don’t give a toss about the game then, because now I’ll get a kick out of Ubishaft screwing up once again.
Sold on Epic /Uplay, 4 layers of DRM, jacked up price and designed to run parity with consoles, absolute streaming pile of garbage.
“WE love PC gaming”, no you don’t Ubisoft, you just love making money.
Also, knock off the CA Ubisoft, it doesn’t suit you.
“Also, knock off the CA Ubisoft, it doesn’t suit you”
It’s not being developed by Ubisoft, it’s being made by Massive Entertainment, which still has the same employees and developers since they were independent, so no change there. Just wanted you to know that.
The CA part doesn’t bother you as much as a slight correction?.
Yes is does, in fact a lot. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s being made by Massive. Just wanted to correct you.
That’s fine by me.
Tom Clancy’s The Division, works better for me on DirectX 12.
Used FuryX (air) and now Vega 64 LiQuiD FreeSync, both GPUs gain from DX12.
For real Gaming is a Night & Day.
(runs on ZEN 8/16 with 32GB 4133 CL19 @3500MHz CL14)
PS.
We need DX12 treatment for AC series badly 😉
those games can shine in new API, Drawcalls in mind.
Totally agree, I really had hoped that Odyssey would of been/used DX12.
Drop DX12 I say and move to Vulkan.
I say Both 😛
I love DOOM & St.Brigade.
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people should realize that without competition valve can do whatever they want. just check out steam prices back in 2014 or 15 or 16 and compare them to now. even old games on deep discount are more expensive now than ever before. publishers have steadily increased their prices instead of cutting them. forced clients are not healthy competition though especially if they’re shet like uplay, origin, social club, windows store, epic store and etc. i’m personally fine with gog and steam at the moment.
“people should realize that without competition valve can do whatever they want. just check out steam prices back in 2014 or 15 or 16 and compare them to now.”
But Valve/Steam had no say in what the sale prices were on Steam in 2014 for games not Published by Valve and they have no say today and they will have no say in the future. The Publishers decide what the sale price on Steam or any other store will be.
Valve can’t just put another Publisher’s game on sale for whatever they want to without the Publisher’s permission.
If Valve bought millions of keys from Publishers at a set price then they could resell them for whatever they wanted to but that’s not how Steam works.
If only Ubisoft would implement DX12 across all of their games, given how many open world titles they pump out
“Given that DX12 can use multi-core CPUs more efficiently than DX11“
Then how come its never the case… i mean NEVER and i got plenty of games with DX 12.. i always turn it off and go back to 11… (not to mention it causes stuttering in some titles)
Live Service scam.
Unsurprisingly it looks nothing like the fake gameplay we saw a couple months ago…
First game was a looker ( still miles from what was shown ) but an absolutely terrible game. For people who like grinding… and sponges…