EPTStarcraft 2 to get 3D support in patch - Page 3
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Disastorm
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sluggaslamoo
Australia4494 Posts
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SC2Phoenix
Canada2814 Posts
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ArtemisKnives
United States210 Posts
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NicolBolas
United States1388 Posts
Something I'm not sure about: On most GFX drivers, you can force AA. Isn't this something that the driver itself can control regardless of the setting in the game? If so, can't everyone who wants AA just force it? No. StarCraft 2's renderer is a deferred renderer. Because of that, it is not rendering to the primary framebuffer (ie: the screen) most of the time. It builds the image through a semi-complex series of intermediate buffers. Buffers that the renderer controls all by itself. Multisampling is a property of the buffer being rendered to. When the driver forces antialiasing on an application, it does so by affecting the properties of the primary framebuffer. So, as in the case of SC2, if you're not using that framebuffer except for the final display, then it isn't going to help. In order for SC2 to support antialiasing, it would have to be something that the game does internally. And it wouldn't be cheap. And it would require DirectX 10-class hardware, because only DX10 hardware can use a multisampled render target as a texture. | ||
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hellsan631
United States695 Posts
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blastedt
United States29 Posts
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Easy772
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On July 04 2010 04:43 sluggaslamoo wrote: Would be cooler if you had glasses that allowed you to macro using just your eyes. Or even better, if they just hooked the computer directly into your brain. | ||
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Ghad
Norway2551 Posts
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sevia
United States954 Posts
If only they could make the single-player cinematics in 3d  | ||
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Santriell
Belgium151 Posts
On July 04 2010 03:41 spinesheath wrote: I think my nVidia driver on my desktop PC already has SC2 listed as 3D compatible. I'm not sure what the process is to get a game into that list, but if Blizz had anything to do with that then the 3D support probably was planned a long time ago. Imo 3D hardware/technology is not yet suited for heavy usage, but the more games/movies start using it, the more likely it is for improvements to be made. SC2 definitely will help boost the development for the platform PC. "3D" is bullshit anyways. If you've ever played on a 120Hz 3D screen for more than a few hours you know what I mean. It's more prone to fry your synapses, give you massive headaches and make your eyes bleed than really "enhance the experience"... | ||
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Santriell
Belgium151 Posts
On July 04 2010 04:07 ghosthunter wrote: Because the people who work on graphics are clearly the same ones who work on Bnet infastructure. Battlenet is just a client-server application with a points system database. Anyone with anything more than a rookie level of programming could make a battlenet. | ||
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Ghad
Norway2551 Posts
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Thoreezhea1
United States532 Posts
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QueueQueue
Canada1000 Posts
It's strange, I never get motion sickness, or have issues playing any games, but 3d just does something weird to me. | ||
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gdroxor
United States639 Posts
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Barnzy
United Kingdom57 Posts
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sinn
United States132 Posts
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ckw
United States1018 Posts
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Tropics
United Kingdom1132 Posts
this game makes less and less sense as the days go by not saying its bad, its just really really strange | ||
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