By Quintin Smith on May 6th, 2011 at 10:26 am.
PC Gamer have the latest on all the different technical set-ups that Deus Ex: Human Revolution will support. First up, it’ll support DirectX 11, which is great! It’ll also support 3D, which is great if you don’t have astigmatism and don’t mind playing your video games looking like a D-list celebrity with a hangover. Finally, it’ll support AMD Eyefinity, which you can see above, but don’t be fooled! AMD Eyefinity doesn’t just stop at three monitors- it actually supports up to six monitors, which is perfect for me, as I was wondering what to do with my five spare monitors and my five-foot long desk.
Click on through the jump to read what Jurjen Katsman, founder and president of Nixxes (the Dutch studio doing the PC version of DX:HR) told PC Gamer about DirectX 11 support. It will amaze you!
Alright, so it probably won’t amaze you.
“We do use tessellation; this was one of the first features we started making use of with DX11. We mainly used it to improve character silhouettes, but also used it for some other objects in the world.
“In Deus Ex: Human Revolution you see characters up close a lot as you interact with them, like in dialogues. Using tessellation to improve their look really helps make the world and the characters more believable, which is important in a story-heavy game like Deus Ex: Human Revolution.”
That wasn’t really worth it, was it? I’m sorry. What a shame.
06/05/2011 at 10:30 Teddy Leach says:
What a shame.
06/05/2011 at 10:45 Robert says:
And in the game..
06/05/2011 at 11:18 hexapodium says:
Tanks. They’re like angry houses.
(Hello, PCG old guard. It’s been a long time.)
06/05/2011 at 16:10 Zaboomafoozarg says:
He was a good man. What a rotten way to die.
06/05/2011 at 16:57 Ian says:
A bomb.
06/05/2011 at 18:55 ResonanceCascade says:
Diwect X Eweven in Da Fresh.
06/05/2011 at 10:30 MuscleHorse says:
Please, please, please stop perpetuating ‘what a shame’. I want to tear off your hands.
06/05/2011 at 10:31 MuscleHorse says:
argh
06/05/2011 at 10:33 jon_hill987 says:
What a shame.
06/05/2011 at 10:36 Teddy Leach says:
Oh my god! Daddy!
06/05/2011 at 10:36 theleif says:
What a meme.
06/05/2011 at 10:49 stahlwerk says:
Too late to stop it now…
What a shame.
06/05/2011 at 10:52 McDan says:
Shame, wot?
06/05/2011 at 10:56 Icarus says:
Oh my god! A bomb!
What a shame.
06/05/2011 at 11:17 hexapodium says:
Will it be out within two weeks?
06/05/2011 at 11:21 MD says:
No. Within six months.
06/05/2011 at 11:34 JackShandy says:
I’ve had it!
06/05/2011 at 11:57 MD says:
I spill my drink! (Because MuscleHorse tore off my hands.)
06/05/2011 at 12:51 stahlwerk says:
Don’t believe me? It’s all in the numbers.
06/05/2011 at 13:18 Kaira- says:
What, a shame?
… am I a tad late?
06/05/2011 at 13:19 Dozer says:
By the way, my three daughters turned up dead. Here’s your op bonus.
06/05/2011 at 13:40 torchedEARTH says:
If you don’t like people commenting “What a shame” about EVERY SINGLE DEUS EX STORY ahem, just find something they like and do this.
WHAT A SHAME x a really lot.
(I did actually paste a load in, but I felt it was terribly misguided)
06/05/2011 at 14:48 BathroomCitizen says:
Right.
What a shame.
06/05/2011 at 15:10 PeopleLikeFrank says:
Indeed.
A bomb?
Not a shame for me.
Indeed.
06/05/2011 at 16:27 Corrupt_Tiki says:
Indeed.
A flop?
What a shame?
Indeed.
06/05/2011 at 18:22 Jason Moyer says:
Maybe I’ll cap his ass, too.
06/05/2011 at 10:34 ananachaphobiac says:
R.I.P. Bioware…and other RPS catchphrases.
06/05/2011 at 10:45 Terry Wogan says:
Abbreviations. Initialisms.
http://www.lyberty.com/encyc/articles/abbr.html
*runs*
06/05/2011 at 15:18 Quintin Smith says:
Yes, well, we both lose because initialisms doesn’t fit.
06/05/2011 at 10:49 Mooglepies says:
As a resident grammar Nazi, I’d just like to point out that those are initialisms and not acronyms. No, I have nothing positive to contribute, I just want to be a git like that. I am somewhat excited by this though, as someone who never really clicked with DE1.
06/05/2011 at 10:50 Terry Wogan says:
Too slow.
06/05/2011 at 11:01 sneetch says:
Ohhhh, shit is gonna kick off now!
/shout GRAMMAR NAZI FIGHT!!!
06/05/2011 at 11:11 Teddy Leach says:
MORTAL KOMBAT! FINISH HIM!
06/05/2011 at 10:53 Inigo says:
I thought it would be more newsworthy if it didn’t support DX 11.
06/05/2011 at 19:51 LionsPhil says:
I only care if it supports DirectX 9.
06/05/2011 at 10:54 tomnullpointer says:
EYEFINITY!!
WARFACE!!
06/05/2011 at 11:23 tomeoftom says:
HWAT?! WHO ARE YOU and how did you get that peachy aura?!
The alt text on this one made me not so much laugh as yell out loud.
06/05/2011 at 14:02 Dozer says:
This. Is it a bonus if you donate your firstborn to RPS via PayPal?
06/05/2011 at 14:50 BathroomCitizen says:
HE’S NOT ONE OF US
06/05/2011 at 16:47 torchedEARTH says:
I’m basking in his warm peachy glow.
06/05/2011 at 16:58 Ian says:
INTRUDER ALERT.
06/05/2011 at 17:16 Flobulon says:
Hi I’m 12 and what is a tomnullpointer?
06/05/2011 at 18:04 Dougal McFrugal says:
seriously
wtf
06/05/2011 at 19:25 Unaco says:
I think I’m right in saying that TomNullpointer is Tom “Nullpointer” Betts, who is working with Mr Rossignol on the Big Robot projects. He has been featured here on RPS (World of Love talks)…
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01/11/wol-footage-harris-steenberg-betts/
http://www.nullpointer.co.uk/content/?p=392
06/05/2011 at 10:57 subedii says:
I never really understood all the angst surrounding DX11. Heck, going by the Steam stats, only something like 5% of people actually have DX11 capability.
I seriously doubt that everyone that kept complaining about it even HAS the ability to use it.
06/05/2011 at 11:01 The Sombrero Kid says:
You’d need to be pretty stupid/rich to buy a DX11 Graphics card if you don’t have any games that support DX11, software drives hardware ;)
06/05/2011 at 11:04 subedii says:
I guess so. But then I’ve barely seen anything that makes DX10 look impressive to date. Crysis and WiC maybe, not much else.
I doubt that the added in DX11 support here will actually amount to much either.
06/05/2011 at 11:06 Alexander Norris says:
The Sombrero Kid: um, no. Pretty much any mid- to upper-mid range graphics card support DX11 these days; anyone buying a new GPU for the purpose of playing games is going to end up with a DX11-capable card (and pretty much no games that use DX11, but oh, well).
06/05/2011 at 11:13 stahlwerk says:
I bought a Radeon 5770 HD almost two years ago, for 170-ish euros, which was ATI’s new lower-mid-range at that time. I’d guess you would really have to look for a card that doesnt support dx11 nowadays.
06/05/2011 at 11:17 Ricc says:
Exactly. You’d be stupid to not buy a DX11 card right now, because that’s just all you can get since at least a year. So, why not support DX11 in your game? Inevitably the userbase will catch up.
06/05/2011 at 11:29 The Sombrero Kid says:
I meant out of the blue, not in your general upgrading routine.
It’s worth pointing out that the difference between DX9 & DX10 was about making things easier to do, it didn’t really introduce any new features, the tessellation feature of DX11 will be responsible for quite a big leap in graphical fidelity when it’s implemented properly.
this video demonstrates it well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uavLefzDuQ
06/05/2011 at 14:21 Boozebeard says:
Most DX updates include increased performance so that’s always nice.
06/05/2011 at 10:59 The Sombrero Kid says:
I’m fairly confident this game will be in the good to great range.
06/05/2011 at 11:08 Mario Figueiredo says:
Finally, someone making proper use of DX11, without that meaning introducing it because of clueless fans who think DX11 makes games look better without actually using any of its features.
06/05/2011 at 11:14 hadrianw says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyefinity#Multi-display_technologies – new technology for something that OS should take care of. Yay, multi-head is called eyefinity these days.
I now, nobody cares, but it bugs me.
Anyways, it reminds me of this – http://www.plastk.net/2009/01/24-monitor-quake_22.html (it was made around 2006 even though reposted on later date).
06/05/2011 at 11:24 Arbodnangle Scrulp says:
Eyefinity is nice, but those of us that game with 3 widescreen monitors using Nvidia (is the way it’s supposed to be played, apparently) will need reassurance, will it natively support nView?
06/05/2011 at 11:32 bigtoeohno says:
Do you know how it gets set up when its 6 screens wrap around further or another row?
06/05/2011 at 16:36 PleasingFungus says:
Another row.
06/05/2011 at 17:48 Howl says:
You can do six in portrait mode if you like but you would have a bezel slap bang down the middle.
It’s usually three or five in portrait orientation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korNba-kN5o Five
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJFuKbRR7w0 Nine (!?!)
@Quintin: Invest in that desk, imo. It’s the future, don’t you know?
06/05/2011 at 11:26 tomeoftom says:
Meanwhile, almost 5000 people will die of AIDS by the end of today, and about 11000 young children will die of hunger/malnutrition/unclean water.
06/05/2011 at 11:29 MuscleHorse says:
The real tragedy is that they’ll die not knowing whether this will live up to the original.
06/05/2011 at 11:33 TeraTelnet says:
And that is … a shame.
06/05/2011 at 11:37 JackShandy says:
Meanwhile, the cosmos is a black infinite void in which the pitiful spectacle of our lives and deaths is ultimately meaningless.
06/05/2011 at 11:43 bigtoeohno says:
That’s a little bleak Jack, if I could give you a ray of sunshine I would.
06/05/2011 at 11:44 Inigo says:
I have the weirdest boner right now.
06/05/2011 at 11:55 tomeoftom says:
Jack: I’m a nihilist, and I presume you are too, but everyone else has no excuse.
06/05/2011 at 11:59 HermitUK says:
Damnit Jack, the infinite isn’t black, it’s blue.
From the outside, anyway.
06/05/2011 at 12:00 Inigo says:
Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, but at least it’s an ethos.
06/05/2011 at 12:01 bigtoeohno says:
When did feelings become against the grain. Nihilism is ridiculous, I’m skeptical it genuinely exist under normal circumstances.
06/05/2011 at 12:26 JackShandy says:
Ok, that was a joke. I was saying that there’s always a bigger fish, and that I don’t think the fact that some things are shitty should stop anyone who has non-shitty things from enjoying them. I guess I also do believe that we’re all going to die and who cares?
06/05/2011 at 12:51 The Sombrero Kid says:
That was beautiful, it brought a tear to my eye.
EDIT: Wrong thread i meant the one under this.
06/05/2011 at 13:10 Inigo says:
@The Sombrero Kid
Actually, now you mention it, a delete function would be appreciated.
I mean, it took long enough to implement an edit button. An option to delete accidentally unwanted posts would just be the fleshy stone fruit of genus Prunus upon the sweet, baked dessert dish generally regarded throughout the Western hemisphere as “cake”.
Yes, I’m drunk. SHUT UP.
06/05/2011 at 14:10 Chalee says:
I cried.
07/05/2011 at 00:48 Arbodnangle Scrulp says:
I’m a solipsist atheist, I don’t believe in myself.
06/05/2011 at 11:36 fiddlesticks says:
This game — the hype is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.
06/05/2011 at 11:43 JackShandy says:
Why contain it? Let it spill out into the schools and churches, let the ads pile up on the streets. In the end, they’ll beg us to release it.
06/05/2011 at 11:52 jon_hill987 says:
I’ve received reports of armed attacks on shipments. There’s not enough copies of the Augmented Edition to go around, and the underclasses are starting to get desperate.
06/05/2011 at 11:52 PickyBugger says:
Oh Jack, If there was a competition for post of the day you would get my vote.
06/05/2011 at 11:56 Lars Westergren says:
Mmm. I hope you’re not underestimating the problem. The others may not go as quietly as you think — intelligence indicates they’re behind the problems at Bioware.
06/05/2011 at 11:57 cqdemal says:
A bunch of pretentious old men playing at epic sci-fi. But the world left them behind long ago. This is the future.
06/05/2011 at 12:01 jon_hill987 says:
We have other problems.
06/05/2011 at 12:04 cqdemal says:
The Witcher?
06/05/2011 at 12:06 Lars Westergren says:
Formed by executive order after the Polish localization of Planescape:Torment. I have someone in place though. I’m more concerned about Warren Spector — he’s relocated to Disney Studios.
06/05/2011 at 12:09 cqdemal says:
Our graphical yellowness is far in advance of theirs, as is our gravelly-voiced protagonist, and their… lack of a Deus Ex license has allowed us to make progress in areas they cannot even consider.
06/05/2011 at 12:18 jon_hill987 says:
Among other things — but I must admit that I have been somewhat disappointed in the performance of Invisible War.
06/05/2011 at 12:18 JackShandy says:
The third-person cover project?
06/05/2011 at 12:22 thegooseking says:
Human Revolution should be coming online soon. If necessary, Invisible War will be redacted from history.
06/05/2011 at 12:30 Inigo says:
I SPEEL MY DRINK
Oh. Wait. Sorry.
06/05/2011 at 12:35 stahlwerk says:
(hugs this thread)
don’t ever stop!
06/05/2011 at 12:46 jon_hill987 says:
We’ve had to endure much, you and I, but soon there will be order again, a new age. PCGamer spoke of the mythical 99% game. Soon that game will be a reality, and we will be crowned its kings. Or better than kings. Gods.
06/05/2011 at 12:49 JackShandy says:
Ladies and gentlemen, the Rock Paper Shotgun comments ensemble!
06/05/2011 at 12:53 stahlwerk says:
*brzzt*
well done!
06/05/2011 at 13:03 TheApologist says:
The internet should shut up shop and close its doors, for, in this thread, it has done all it can.
06/05/2011 at 13:03 dtgreen says:
This is by far the most epic sub-thread within RPS’ comments section EVAR.
06/05/2011 at 13:34 Lewis Denby says:
That was absolutely beautiful, guys.
06/05/2011 at 13:40 SanguineAngel says:
You deserve medals
06/05/2011 at 13:44 Icarus says:
*standing ovation*
06/05/2011 at 14:00 adonf says:
This is awesome ! And it make as much sense as the original
06/05/2011 at 14:22 dragonhunter21 says:
Comment thread of the day? Nononono. This is just about the best thing I’ve ever seen.
This needs to get on the front page, somehow.
06/05/2011 at 14:31 JackShandy says:
A moment of pure euphoria right under nihilist musings on the pointlessness of existence and a drunken rant about the comments system. This thread really does have it all.
06/05/2011 at 16:40 skyturnedred says:
This comment thread should be tomorrow’s headline all over the world.
06/05/2011 at 16:57 tomeoftom says:
Man, I just saw Herbie Hancock live an hour ago, and even that didn’t live up to this thread. I wish you could hug through the tubes.
06/05/2011 at 17:47 DD says:
That was just…. Incredible!
06/05/2011 at 19:55 LionsPhil says:
Substantially better than expected.
06/05/2011 at 21:32 Fierce says:
I literally just registered to say how much I enjoyed reading that. My Friday has officially been made. THANK YOU!
07/05/2011 at 08:58 Stellar Duck says:
Thank you, to everyone involved! I enjoyed that immensely. And remembered why RPS is the best place to be.
06/05/2011 at 11:38 cliffski says:
I don’t think characters in games are unbelievable because of a lack of directx11 tesselation technology. It’s because they say this:
“I am a sad puppy because I am the true heir to the throne of this kingdom. That is why I stand here all day never moving. Go and kill 10 spiders for me, and I shall hand you this bag of gold”
I think more time spent on dialogue would beat tesselating peoples nostrils. But I’m weird like that.
06/05/2011 at 11:46 oceanclub says:
“UNREAL ENGINE 2012: FEATURING DIALOGUE TESSELATION”
P.
06/05/2011 at 11:54 jon_hill987 says:
The rats! The rats in my basement! You seem to be busy saving the world and all, but PLEASE KILL THE RATS IN MY BASEMENT! They’re huge! And evil.
06/05/2011 at 12:02 TheApologist says:
Seriously though, if I had giant rats in my basement and I didn’t fancy getting tetanus or whatever it is you get from rat bites, and some heroes for hire popped in unannounced, and they needed the EXP and some cash for better gear, I’d totally hire them.
But I don’t have a basement.
PS I agree.
06/05/2011 at 12:11 thegooseking says:
No, you’re right.
I don’t mean, “I agree with your opinion”. You are factually correct.
Our brains are hard-wired to understand and respond to very crude representations of people. It’s nice that it’ll look prettier, but visual fidelity is less of a concern for believability at this point (unless you conflate ‘believability’ and ‘realism’, but then you’d be wrong).
Our brains are not so good at finding bad writing and idiotic AI to be believable, (which is a tautology, because that’s why they’re bad and idiotic, but never mind). DX11 can’t do much about that, though.
06/05/2011 at 13:22 HermitUK says:
“Hello, person I’ve never met! I have something extremely important I need taking care of, and since I know nothing about you I’m convinced you’re the right passing stranger for this job.”
06/05/2011 at 14:09 Dozer says:
I think there’s scope for the more free-form games (Morrowind etc) to have a greater emphasis on getting your character accredited by the authorities and professional organisations. Like, registering with the Fighters Guild then allows you to escort trade caravans because the merchants know if you decide to rob them, the Guild knows where you live and can go and beat you up.
06/05/2011 at 20:31 Dances to Podcasts says:
I have plucked my eyebrows, trimmed my pubic hair, whitened my teeth, tesselated by nostrils and I smell like butterflyfarts. I am ready for any social occasion and/or emergency.
06/05/2011 at 11:50 DeepSleeper says:
I’m looking forward to the flood of games based on hyperbolic geometry that this kind of tessellation-focused graphics engine will undoubtedly unleash.
06/05/2011 at 11:56 thegooseking says:
I have a five foot long desk here. I’d have trouble fitting six monitors on it.
06/05/2011 at 13:16 amorpheous says:
Even if you could, you’d need to sit 6 feet away from it to see them all.
06/05/2011 at 14:06 Dozer says:
I assume with six monitors you’d arrange them in a 2×3 grid (three across, two down).
07/05/2011 at 03:31 Finster says:
Surely it’s three in front and three behind, for the surround effect
06/05/2011 at 12:15 John Connor says:
More importantly, have they made those “special moves” skippable or performable from first person? I don’t want to be dragged into a two hour cutscene every time I kill a bitch.
06/05/2011 at 12:24 Inigo says:
Now that’s just unfair.
It’s only one and a half hours.
06/05/2011 at 23:34 Saldek says:
Marketing prefers the expression “90 minutes”
06/05/2011 at 13:27 thebluemonkey81 says:
If you’re hating 3D as much as me
http://www.2d-glasses.com/
I’m assuming that there’s a “turn it off” option but I do worry that games will become 3D only sooner or later.
edit;
Oh and on top of that, 3D just seems like a step backwards graphics wise as it makes everything look “fuzzy” and 90′s “home and away”
06/05/2011 at 13:34 The Sombrero Kid says:
or alternatively replace one of the lenses from one of the countless pairs of realD glasses you’ve got kicking around with the opposite lens from another pair.
06/05/2011 at 13:41 thegooseking says:
I don’t think 3D only will ever happen; I think we’ll graduate from 2D displays directly to holographic projection.
Holographic projection is still a ways off for proper gaming application, but it can already do fairly interesting things. I couldn’t say how long it would take to be ready for games, though. But in any case, the principle of 3D has been around for decades without really gaining any more than a fad market each time it comes around.
06/05/2011 at 13:58 stahlwerk says:
holographic projection? you mean like r2d2? that won’t happen until we find a way to diffract and scatter light spontaneously and at will at randomly chosen points in the air.
Holographic displays may come in the next 10-20 years, but it will take them even longer until they reach the fidelity of shutter and polarization based methods (spatial fidelity notwithstanding).
06/05/2011 at 23:55 Dawngreeter says:
You’re all on the wrong track. Once we figure out wetware data storage we’ll just use that to have interactive memories. Eyesight is a flawed mechanism.
07/05/2011 at 00:02 Jason Moyer says:
So basically a modern Sega Time Traveller cabinet. And jesus, that game is 20 years old now.
06/05/2011 at 13:59 Malawi Frontier Guard says:
If the gaps between the screens irritate you, try to imagine you are piloting a mech.
06/05/2011 at 14:30 davidgilbert says:
Does anyone else think this could be the developer putting a very tasty sauce on would be a very dry piece of chicken? Surely gameplay close to the original is a more important concern than DX11 support. Personally I wouldn’t mind if it just had DX8 support if the game play was about the same as the original (in the open ended malarkey department)
06/05/2011 at 17:55 ResonanceCascade says:
I keep telling myself that this will just be a pretty Splinter Cell ripoff with a little bit of open-endedness and Deus Ex lore thrown on top. If I’m right, I’ll have gotten what I expected. If I’m wrong and it really is Deus Ex 2011, then I can only be very pleasantly surprised.
Either way, I’ve been around the hype wagon ten too many times to buy into this without playing it for myself, no matter what people are saying.
06/05/2011 at 15:04 Pinky G says:
I just got to japan last night in my latest replay of deus ex with no kills. I love the music for the market, its my favourite part of the game probably.
06/05/2011 at 16:53 Zaboomafoozarg says:
Hong Kong market = just about the best level in any game, ever.
06/05/2011 at 18:02 Pinky G says:
Haha, 12 hours on the killswitch and counting, its a fun level. I noticed for the first time that a book refering to the helicopters says that they can be remotely scuttled if necessary, portending to later events which is pretty cool. I hadnt noticed that before.
I ‘killed’ Anna but in my opinion, whats wrong with placing a lam mine behind myself on the plane incase of a robotic ambush. How was I to know she was so careless.
The voice acting really hits its stride in japan, verging on racism.
The news vendor says ‘I dont rike rittle boys.’ and ‘Many pubwication’. Is it comedy genious or not, I dont know.
07/05/2011 at 00:32 Nick says:
is it as racist as calling china japan?
08/05/2011 at 22:11 Pinky G says:
That was just a mistake. Im definately not rascist and I meant China.
06/05/2011 at 16:07 Dawngreeter says:
No DX12?
Tessellation is fine, but I’d prefer my games with cross-tessellation, or at least retessellation. Regular tessellating just doesn’t cut it for me anymore.
06/05/2011 at 16:58 KauhuK says:
I dont understand this 3D boom because 2D>3D. They’ll never take away my moe, NEVER.
06/05/2011 at 18:43 thegooseking says:
Hmm. Now I’m in a quandary. Do I admit to loving this song or not?
06/05/2011 at 19:38 TheLastBaron says:
I have astigmatism in one eye, so sometimes 3D works and sometimes is doesn’t. By which I mean the 3d effect is switching from looking 3d to looking like double vision.
07/05/2011 at 03:32 Dave L. says:
I genuinely love 3D for a lot of games (Mirror’s Edge and Dead Space, in particular), but I imagine 3D combined with the jumps into third person and back might get extremely disorienting. At least they’re using AMD’s HD3D instead of nVidia 3D Vision, so it’ll work with my 3D set-up, and presumably without me having to run some sort of third party stereoscopic driver.
07/05/2011 at 18:49 eclipse mattaru says:
I’m kind of perplexed at them paying this much attention to all that cybernetic nuclear tesselation FROM THE FUTURE! thing, and yet this is what I read at PCGamer’s hands-on: “Mouse movement feels a little off right now: the horizontal sensitivity is way higher than the vertical sensitivity, and there isn’t an option to adjust them individually.”
I would have thought mouse controls were the first thing you’d get right, but what do I know. I just noticed I wrote “tessellation” with only one “l”.