Next-Generation graphics engine announced!

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HappySqurriel said:
I'm both impressed and not ... I saw papers a few years ago with similar results performing real-time rendering.

What I wonder is what kind of hardware this requires to run, at what kind of performance you get from that hardware. If fairly modest hardware can achieve similar results (possibly at a moderately low resolution/frame-rate) I would be very interested; but if they require cutting edge hardware I'm not interested.

Considering the DX11/PC support listed for the engine and the fact that it is targeting next gen (with current gen hardware support) I am going to assume a high end PC is running this "demo"

OT while the lighting looks accurate, this demo is static so it could well be some form of precomputed lighting in which case showing stark areas full off flat walls is not thayt impressive. I would need to see a realistic character model and dynamic lights to be impressed.

The samaritan demo has better looking dynamic lighting TBH, may not be quite as accurate in the demos that have been shown (none have actually tried to model a real world location to my knowlage) but at least we know it's dynamic

so does cryengine 3