Dead Rising 2 has multiplayer, up to 6000 zombies on screen

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Ascended_Saiyan3 said:

kowenicki said:
6000 on one screen? one question... how?

Are they the size of a grain of rice? Are they a long long way away? makes no sense to me.

It's really not that big of a deal.  Having different AI for them would be a big deal.  There was a simulation with over 15,000 objects (chickens) with their own A.I. on the Cell (page 5).  Without individual A.I. (i.e. minimal crowd A.I.), MLB 09:The Show has around 50,000 people in the stadium stands moving around.

 

But did you read the whole sentence?

"In fact, when the number of chickens was increased to a total of 15,000 birds the Cell B./E. processor was still able to perform the simulation with interactive speed, but the graphics rendering was not able to keep pace, even on a state-of-the-art NVidia GPU and started dropping 2 out of 3 frames, resulting in 10fps "sluggish" video output."