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Crysis 2 Update a Perfect Case of Wasted Polygons
crookedvulture writes "Crytek made news earlier this summer by releasing a big DirectX 11 update for the PC version of its latest game, Crysis 2. Among other things, the update added extensive tessellation to render in-game elements with a much higher number of polygons. Unfortunately, it looks like most of those extra polygons have been wasted on flat objects that don't require more detail or on invisible layers of water that are rendered even in scenes made up entirely of dry land. Screenshots showing the tessellated polygon meshes for various items make the issue pretty obvious, and developer tools confirm graphics cards are wasting substantial resources rendering these useless or unseen polygons. Interestingly, Nvidia had a hand in getting the DirectX 11 update rolled out, and its GeForce graphic cards just happen to perform better with heavy tessellation than AMD's competing Radeons."
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The internet isn't as "safe" as all of you gossipers, want us to believe. That thing there in the GP is a username, '0123456' and he just gave out two company names 'id' and 'valve'. If you know the USA or have read any lawsuit nightmares here, then you know that giving out his any more triangulating info gets too specific.
Anyone who worked with him on that section of code will notice today, or on a google search a month from now, and is bound to be drawing eyeballs to quote us here for other forums (while post deletion at the HERE source is not an option.) In our crowds or theirs there are bound to be whistle-blowers, old enemies who still work for the GP's company at the time, and the lawyers from all three companies. All three with very large sticks that point at non-expiring NDA's he signed for the privilege to play ball while making a living.
If you personally want "anonymity," then invite us to a 4chan thread created by "you". And be prepared for information that sounds more "substantiated" as you ask, but might be 100% lies from someone youll find isn't even the GP in the first place. That is the point... we really won't know even if GP chooses to reply to you pretending all the info given in his follow-up is "true."
The last few days, with wikipedia and some other stories, slashdot has started to show voyeurs wanting a good story for nostalgia's sake. But we're not a peeping site. There's an unwritten law in professional circles (even beyond medicine's implicit and legal nondisclosure norms) that says that juicy stories should anonymized enough. After all, we ask the same of Facebook and other free services, so we need to be just as considerate.
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