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Fable Legends DX12 Benchmark Stressing High End GPUs
Vigile writes: In preparation for the release of the free-to-play Fable Legends game on both Xbox One and PC this winter, Microsoft and Lionhead Studios released a benchmark today that allows users to test performance of their PC hardware configuration with a DirectX 12 based game engine that pushes the boundaries of render quality. Based on a modified UE4 engine, Fable Legends includes support for asynchronous compute shaders, manual resource barrier tracking and explicit memory management, all new to the DX12 API. Unlike the previous DX12 benchmark, Ashes of the Singularity, which focused mainly on high draw call counts and mass quantities of on-screen units, Fable Legends takes a more standard approach, attempting to improve image quality and shadow reproduction with the new API. PC Perspective has done some performance analysis with the new benchmark and a range of graphics cards, finding that while NVIDIA still holds the lead at the top spot (GTX 980 Ti vs Fury X), the AMD Radeon mid-range products offer better performance (and better value) than the comparable GeForce parts.
The Unreal Engine 4 Engine, eh?
wasn't DX12 supposed to help them?
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Last time DX12 benchmarks were posted, NVIDIA flipped their lid --- DX12 seemed to only hurt their performance, while it gave AMD an easy 25-50% boost and let them catch up to NVIDIA's DX11 numbers. This time, no such comparison. I wonder why.
This forced artificial obsolescence of DirectX12 not being available for Windows 7 (or 8, 8.1) is complete bullshit.
I'm not downgrading to the privacy fuckfest of Windows 10 just to run a benchmark.
You realize all the privacy-rapist features of Win10 have been added to 7/8, right?
you still have the option to uninstall those updates and choose updates manually in windows 7/8. Something you can't do in windows 10. So no.
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Well how? Screen every update to make sure MS don't sneak it in? What people are doing is disabling windows update. That makes Windows 7 not better than XP in terms of obsolescence and security. And really how much can you uninstall? People are finding the Windows 10 install files downloaded despite having ticked no to the Windows 10 offer and having uninstalled the tool.
It has become clear that you are NOT in control of your computer. That privilege is given to either Microsoft or malware authors depending on your OS settings.
No they weren't. I think what you meant to say is that you were stupid and installed them into your Windows 7/8 machines.
Those of us who know better won't ever worry about that because with have always had auto update disabled.
Well how? Screen every update to make sure MS don't sneak it in?
I've been doing that for years now, for everything except security updates.
I don't really care, I just block everything in my firewall now ever since all the android hacks. And now with this Microsoft crap, I'm all ready for it. If it's doing something I didn't approve of, it's not going through.
Well how? Screen every update to make sure MS don't sneak it in?
Actually, the readmes for the "updates" say right on the tin what they do. You do have to tunnel down to their site to actually read the readmes, because the descriptions in windows update are bullshit, but at least it's possible without decompiling things. So yeah, this is what you have to do now. It's sad. Pathetic, I think. But it's where we are.
Windows 7 appears to be my really for real last version of Windows... I've said it before, but I decided Windows 7 was no more odious than XP. 8, ugh. 8.1, meh. 9, hahaha. 10, nope! So uh... unless they turn Windows 10 into Windows 180 ala the Xbox One [Eighty] I guess this is where the road ends.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Have you ever heard of the saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"? Well my Windows 7 and 8.1 machines all work perfectly fine as they currently are. No instability, no performance issues.
I used to do manual updates from time to time, but with MS trying to sneak crap in, I've simply opted to never do updates again. My firewalls and AV can handle security.
Which is why EVERY updated is blocked until I personally verify exactly what it is doing.
If Microsoft wants to data mine my machine they can go fuck themselves.
Fuck them with that DX12, recompile to DX11 and we will talk.
Fable 3 was tied to Games For Windows Live... even on Steam. GFWL is now dead. The game will no longer launch and even if I could get it to launch, as far as I know, all my DLC is gone since that had to come through GFWL even though I bought it on Steam.
I will not purchase another lionhead studios game... and will suspect any game that requires tie ins to any Microsoft gaming service in the future.
Luckly enough, it's not going to be a one-sided win for DirectX this time. Vulkan supports all versions of Windows from XP onwards and for that reason there's a lot of game studios going to use Vulkan instead of DirectX 12.
Blizzard and EA and a few others are even Khronos members.
The redundancy in the title makes me feel like an idiot every time I say it. It sounds like those people that say "ATM machine". And could the title be any more generic and bland? I hope the marketing committee that was hired to come up with this managed to walk away with a large sum of Microsoft's money.
Ok, I'm stupid.
Now that we got this out of the way...
Where the hell can I get a download link?
TFS doesn't have it.
TFA doesn't have it.
A quick search online found... nothing. Only benchmark results. Clearly I am missing something.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Thank you for stating this. It is bullshit and it needed to be said.
but you will be giving up the last of your XP compatibility (my bros a strat gamer and he bemoans it's lack of Space Empires 4 compatibility )
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Fucking hell people, don't any of you have content-filtering proxy servers and/or hardware firewalls in your networks?
Actually, the readmes for the "updates" say right on the tin what they do.
Unless Microsoft doesn't want you to know everything the updates do. If you're running Windows at all you have already decided to trust Microsoft.
Unless Microsoft doesn't want you to know everything the updates do. If you're running Windows at all you have already decided to trust Microsoft.
Fraud is a Felony. Microsoft might not tell you what an update does, but they're not going to lie to you about it. Too many people are waiting for a slip-up like that, and by people, I mean corporations who can actually afford a lawsuit.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Crap comes in through HTTP unharmed anyway. Malware is happy to run with "only" user execution context, because it can run arbitrary code and has access to all your data, even that network mounted rw share.
I suppose there will eventually be some update blocker software, or run some tool like Autopatcher with a blacklist or whitelist if that's possible? or some WSUS or similar server (that only costs like $1000 lol, unless warez Server 2008 R2 just works)