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[Chris Priestly]

Hello Dragon Age Technology fans

We have updated the BioWare Blog with part 2 of Dragon Age 2 Lead Graphics/Engine Programmer Andreas Papathanasis' blog on the Technology of Dragon Age II Part 2. This update talks about Dynamic Lighting, Tesselation, Ambient Occlusion and Diffusion. It also features 6 new Dragon Age 2 screenshots.

While I know many of you will play through DA2 concentrating on the combat or the story and characters, the technology that goes into making DragoN Age II and exceptional game just doesn't get enough credit. DA2 is a truely beautiful game and a huge part of that is the work Andreas and his team did behind the scenes to get everything looking so good.

If you missed part 1, you can read it at The Technology of Dragon Age II Part 1.

[RinpocheSchnozberry]

Where is the part where you discuss how to make tomorrow March 8th?  Because I need that part.  Wicked bad.


:O:O

Modifié par RinpocheSchnozberry, 03 mars 2011 - 06:41 .

[james1976]

One of the major goals of the team was to make the game look great on all platforms. Having accomplished that, we started researching what additional features we can offer to our users that have invested on higher end PC hardware. The latest PC GPUs that have been recently released on the market are very powerful. DirectX 11 technology is a great way for us to target this advanced GPU hardware, as DirectX 11 is fully backwards compatible with DirectX 10. So if you have a video card that supports DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 or DirectX 11, and Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7, you’ll be able to benefit from additional technology features as described in this post.

So if I am reading this correctly...I have Vista Ultimate 64 with a GTX 460. So I'd be able to enable the DX11 features on Vista because my card is DX11 capable?

[RinpocheSchnozberry]

Am I really going to buy a 6870 and waterblock this weekend?  I think.... I think I might.

[RinpocheSchnozberry]

james1976 wrote...

One of the major goals of the team was to make the game look great on all platforms. Having accomplished that, we started researching what additional features we can offer to our users that have invested on higher end PC hardware. The latest PC GPUs that have been recently released on the market are very powerful. DirectX 11 technology is a great way for us to target this advanced GPU hardware, as DirectX 11 is fully backwards compatible with DirectX 10. So if you have a video card that supports DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 or DirectX 11, and Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7, you’ll be able to benefit from additional technology features as described in this post.

So if I am reading this correctly...I have Vista Ultimate 64 with a GTX 460. So I'd be able to enable the DX11 features on Vista because my card is DX11 capable?

Vista supports DX11 and your card supports DX11, so you should be fine.

[Knal1991]

Buuuuuut.... does it cause lag or crashes..

Cause the graphic options in origins did... Hoping it doesn't offcourse

[james1976]

RinpocheSchnozberry wrote...

james1976 wrote...

One of the major goals of the team was to make the game look great on all platforms. Having accomplished that, we started researching what additional features we can offer to our users that have invested on higher end PC hardware. The latest PC GPUs that have been recently released on the market are very powerful. DirectX 11 technology is a great way for us to target this advanced GPU hardware, as DirectX 11 is fully backwards compatible with DirectX 10. So if you have a video card that supports DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 or DirectX 11, and Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7, you’ll be able to benefit from additional technology features as described in this post.

So if I am reading this correctly...I have Vista Ultimate 64 with a GTX 460. So I'd be able to enable the DX11 features on Vista because my card is DX11 capable?

Vista supports DX11 and your card supports DX11, so you should be fine.

Thanks for the info.  I always thought Vista was DX10 and Win7 was the only one to support DX11.

[Thandal N'Lyman]

RinpocheSchnozberry wrote...

Am I really going to buy a 6870 and waterblock this weekend?  I think.... I think I might.

Go for the "GTX 580 FTW H2O"!  OMG that's one sexy card, (and fits in a single slot!)

[Thandal N'Lyman]

james1976 wrote...
Thanks for the info.  I always thought Vista was DX10 and Win7 was the only one to support DX11.

Looks like DX11 was available for Vista a while ago...

User posting on the Microsoft Social (Note, this was in response to a question about how to un-install DX11!):

Vista SP1/Sp2 ( 6001 and 6002 ) comes with DX 10.1 by default, an update to the original DX 10.0 in Vista with no Servicepack installed ( vista build 6000 ). 

What pulls DX11 into Vista SP2 ( 6002 ) is the so called "platform update" that comes with Windows Update as an "optional but recommended update" , which makes Vista SP2 make  more Windows7 compliant. ( In Windows 7 DirectX 11 is baked in and can therfore not be uninstalled ).

Description of the platform update for Vista SP2 :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971644

Link to MS-social posting: http://social.techne...1-5dfcd71b9fea/

Hope that helps! 

[KillerYeh]

Looks just awesome! Can't wait!!!!

[sergyuboss82b]

Well I am from europ and let me tell u that on my personal tracker there is dragon age 2 full game for Xbox working!!!
and now bioware will no doubt blame PC users for pirating that will be the first one!when are the publisher's going to realize that the xbox and ps3 are haked more than the pc?!?

[FearMonkey]

Looks like the tesselation and displacement mapping doesn't do anything to make those skeleton pieces not look like they belong on the N64.



Again, at least in comparison to how much better that type of detail looked in Dragon Age: Origins.

Modifié par FearMonkey, 03 mars 2011 - 08:13 .

[foil-]

Good to see this article up before game release. Off to read part 2...

[bambooxfox]

In addition, certain lighting effects will also add additional shadows
to the scene. For example, when casting a fireball to a group of
enemies, players will see shadows from all enemies. This looks great
especially on indoor scenes.

Oooh, I can't wait to see this. I love indoor fights. Enemies squished together, ready for an AoE blast...

[Talon_Wu]

If the rest of the game is half this pretty, my Hawke will spend her time gawking like a tourist. Heck with rising to power, more sightseeing!

[james1976]

Thandal NLyman wrote...

james1976 wrote...
Thanks for the info.  I always thought Vista was DX10 and Win7 was the only one to support DX11.

Looks like DX11 was available for Vista a while ago...

User posting on the Microsoft Social (Note, this was in response to a question about how to un-install DX11!):

Vista SP1/Sp2 ( 6001 and 6002 ) comes with DX 10.1 by default, an update to the original DX 10.0 in Vista with no Servicepack installed ( vista build 6000 ). 

What pulls DX11 into Vista SP2 ( 6002 ) is the so called "platform update" that comes with Windows Update as an "optional but recommended update" , which makes Vista SP2 make  more Windows7 compliant. ( In Windows 7 DirectX 11 is baked in and can therfore not be uninstalled ).

Description of the platform update for Vista SP2 :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971644

Link to MS-social posting: http://social.techne...1-5dfcd71b9fea/

Hope that helps! 

So I see.  I probably already have the update installed, just didn't know it enabled DX11.  Will have to look tonight.  Never had a problem on that drive other than with ME1 (which I had to install DX9 on Vista to make it run properly).

[Jamesnew2]

Pc 1 Consoles 0 glad i got ma gaming pc. Now i've preordered Dragon age II on to raising money for Mass effect 2 dlc that comes out soon lol.

[Bendok]

The ol' GTX 570 is gonna get a work out then

[Ragadurn]

Talon_Wu wrote...

If the rest of the game is half this pretty, my Hawke will spend her time gawking like a tourist. Heck with rising to power, more sightseeing!

I second this emotion. I have to admit I already thought something along that line when Mike Laidlaw gave us a short tour through Kirkwall at the beginning of the last dev live chat.

Modifié par Ragadurn, 03 mars 2011 - 11:05 .

[foil-]

Bendok wrote...

The ol' GTX 570 is gonna get a work out then

That's the card I was thinking of.  The nVidia cards are supposed to be better at tesselation than the AMD cards.  I guess I'll be switching back to the green side again.  Shame, was hoping the AMD smaller process cards would be out by now.

And from what I've seen on gaming benchmarks for that 570, it shouldn't even break a sweat with Dragon Age.  Crysis might be another matter though.  However, it looks to perform well with Battlefield 2.

How do you like yours.  Any games that give it a hard time at normal resolutions?

Modifié par foil-, 04 mars 2011 - 12:26 .

[yuncas]

Interesting.

[DarthCaine]

Pretty lighting. The rest, not so much

[Bendok]

foil- wrote...

Bendok wrote...

The ol' GTX 570 is gonna get a work out then

That's the card I was thinking of.  The nVidia cards are supposed to be better at tesselation than the AMD cards.  I guess I'll be switching back to the green side again.  Shame, was hoping the AMD smaller process cards would be out by now.

And from what I've seen on gaming benchmarks for that 570, it shouldn't even break a sweat with Dragon Age.  Crysis might be another matter though.  However, it looks to perform well with Battlefield 2.

How do you like yours.  Any games that give it a hard time at normal resolutions?

No problems with any game at max details with AA/AF at 1920x1080. The 570 is the best bang for the buck card out there IMO. Some people would say the 460 or 560 but you can find the 570 cheap now and at stock speeds its faster than a GTX 480 which up until a couple months ago was a $500 card.  The cooling system on the 570 is also excellent. You can do moderate overclocking to bring it to close to GTX 580 speeds without even thinking about it.

[foil-]

Bendok wrote...

foil- wrote...

Bendok wrote...

The ol' GTX 570 is gonna get a work out then

That's the card I was thinking of.  The nVidia cards are supposed to be better at tesselation than the AMD cards.  I guess I'll be switching back to the green side again.  Shame, was hoping the AMD smaller process cards would be out by now.

And from what I've seen on gaming benchmarks for that 570, it shouldn't even break a sweat with Dragon Age.  Crysis might be another matter though.  However, it looks to perform well with Battlefield 2.

How do you like yours.  Any games that give it a hard time at normal resolutions?

No problems with any game at max details with AA/AF at 1920x1080. The 570 is the best bang for the buck card out there IMO. Some people would say the 460 or 560 but you can find the 570 cheap now and at stock speeds its faster than a GTX 480 which up until a couple months ago was a $500 card.  The cooling system on the 570 is also excellent. You can do moderate overclocking to bring it to close to GTX 580 speeds without even thinking about it.

Thanks.  That's about the impression I got when looking at the various cards.   Do you know what the length of that card is?

Modifié par foil-, 04 mars 2011 - 11:54 .