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Cross-X on 17 April 2010

Well isn't kinda obvious that a dev would say "There's no screen tearing in game" rather than "Yeh we've got some screen tearing issues"? Who in their right mind would say that?



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Bloodnok on 17 April 2010

They can guarantee no screen tearing by V-syncing. Although in a game this graphically demanding there's usually a straight choice for developers - v-sync or frame rate drops - if you have a free roaming camera, occasionally the user is going to point it such a way that it taxes the hell out of the engine.

We shall see, but either way it looks awesome.



WereKitten on 17 April 2010

^Of course. 720p and 4xMSAA means tiling, though, so with all those long-distance shots and trees I didn't consider v-sync as an option, as the frame drops in camera panning would likely be worse on the eye than minor frame tear.

Update: actually, they already stated on their forums as much:

"While playing Alan Wake on a Xbox 360, if the game framerate drops below 30 FPS we resort to screen tearing (same idea as Gears of War uses)."



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Bloodnok on 17 April 2010

^^ Fair point.

We'll find out one way or another once digital foundry get their hands on it

 

EDIT Good find! I was expecting them to start dropping the AA level when things got too busy, RE5 style



WereKitten on 17 April 2010

^AA is more critical for the image quality than in RE5, because they use alpha-to-coverage on all that foliage. Drop the AA and you're in for a lot of noise and shimmering. Again, it's probably more pleasant to the eye to just fall back on a little screen tearing, given the game setting and style.



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Feylic on 17 April 2010
Legend11 said:
Feylic said:
Fastest damage control ever. Seems like they're trying to hide something.


Yeah it would seem much less suspicious if they remained completely silent on the issue.  Seriously think about what you posted for a minute.  It's a no-win situation with you because lets be honest you'd be saying the exact same thing if that were the case as well.

No, not at all. They didn't have to dignify random internet squabbiling with a response. What do you mean no-win situation?



yo_john117 on 17 April 2010
BioDomePoo said:
CGI-Quality said:
BioDomePoo said:
Best graphics on any console so far played em all and this ones special.The lighting alone is enough to take this game to another level putz kz2 lighting to shame.The world looks better than uncharted 2 and the color is better than gears.

Nothing comes close until crysis 2

I know this is off-topic but so far, no game's lighting puts Killzone 2's to shame. ALAN WAKE's is better, yes, but doesn't put KZ2 to shame.

Speaking of damage control lol.

No offense not that it should offend you because you didnt develope the game.Lighting shining through windows stationary and some red lighted eyes reflecting off walls againts full motion lighting on large scales in massive maps i call that putting something to shame.

It makes kz2 seem last gen.

lol? seriously nothing that will come out for the rest of this gen will make KZ2 seem last gen...nothing.  There will be games that will beat it, but make it seem last gen is just ridiculous