So, how soon will Sins 2 be built on this engine?

Ran two quick tests on RTS / Extreme with D3D. First test ended up at average 10.25 FPS, second test 27.66 FPS. For the second test I disabled motion blur in the extreme settings. Can't wait to do the same tests with Mantle drivers when they are released.

I got 15.8 fps with RTS/ Extreme, 30 with blur off...

Engine won't even use two cores fully, 42% usage at 10 fps... I thought this was supposed to improve cpu core usage even in DX11?

And why is the engine limited to 30 fps? Any attempt to change this results in the benchmark crashing on startup.

I'll have to try it out when I get home. Exciting

From the Steam Community Hub it seems like people are getting decent performance even without mantle. Seems like this demo is a lot more optimized than what we were seeing in the previous videos? The demo never saw the game go higher than 30fps

Of course now I have to wonder if I need to get a wretched AMD card.... ewww...

Ok at friends place getting my stuff updated (damn u internets and damn u snow storms!) DOWNLOADS SO MANY DOWNLOADS HURRY UP HERPA DERP! 

OK, i gave it a spin last night and its very nice indeed, although HW demanding. My system is Core i7 980x @ 3,78 GHz, 24 GBs of RAM, geforce gtx590, win 7. Installed on SSD. Since Nvidia GPU, no Mantle, just D3D.

Few random thoughts>

i tried the RTS only with high difficulty (not extreme) and the FPS plummeted on occasion (zooming out, rotating camera) to 0-10 range.... i take this is down to GPU not being fast enough (played it with just one GPU, not both, equal in performance to cca GTX570), that CPU would be fine to run it without stutter otherwise....or not?

turning the temporal AA off helped the performance quite a lot. It ran almost fluidly, without any major hiccups, i dont think the FPS dropped under 20, atleast i did not notice. 

the graphics were not so great . I mean, i expect bit more. Obviously the smallish fighters, when you zoom in onto them, are completely on another level polygon- and detail-wise, when you compare them to fighter/bomber models from Rebellion. But the specular highlights were bit over the top metallic, it seemed like the models lacked some kind of bump or normal maps...it kinda looked bit cartoonish. Was not blown away by the lighting solution in general - CryEngine it is not. Maybe this was only down to art direction, rather than technical solution though.

Do not want to sound pessimistic or what, it was indeed cool otherwise and i cant wait for another Sins (or any other potentially similar game in general) to be released on this engine.

So Radeon 6800 is out? Damn, just 200 less...

it would have been nice if the custom settings has some ui bits to go with it other than telling you to go edit a .txt

.... not that my machine even meet the min req (core 2 duo + 7770)

got a grey screen out of it and a hugely lagged mouse cursor. a look at (mid) settings suggest it was using 1920*x1080 or even 2560*? when my desktop resolution is set at 1280*800... did a hard reset and after that, the launcher doesn't even show the menu.. just a greyed out app window... trying to use command line on a custom lower setting gave me a grey screen and less lagged mouse cursor.. deleted and gave up. probably too optimistic. might give it another go when there's a non-beta mantle driver. (nevermind the absent beta driver )

(speaking of min req... saints row 4 has a higher req than saints row 3... but strangely 4 ran better than 3 on my machine which doesn't meet the min req of 4. then again, i suppose it seems to me more like an expansion than a new game.. refined engine and re-used assets)

Hi All

I have my AMD 8 core cpu here with windows 8 64bit, AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB PCIe(Catalyst 13.12), and I cannot get Star Swarm to see that I have a GCN GPU and capable of running the demo with the Mantle API activated ?

There has been an FAQ posted which answers some questions people have been asking.

http://www.oxidegames.com/2014/01/31/star-swarm-faq/

Just a quick question.

Will games built with the Nitros engine be playable on mid-range systems that are a couple of years old, or will they require fairly new high end dedicated gaming machines?

Hi Found this as well.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/amd-almost-rolls-out-mantle-its-high-performance-alternative-to-direct3d-and-opengl/

As long as they are 64-bit Windows 7 or later and you have a card that supports DirectX 11 you should be fine.  That's most hardware today.

Glad that's up.  I've read a lot of posts from people not understanding that the default config for Star Swarm is a stress test.  If it didn't bring a typical machine today to its knees then it's kind of failed as a stress test.  

So it should work on my Radeon HD 6850, unlike Star Swarm, right?