Gears of War Ultimate will be the first DirectX 12 titles in development for PC. In a lengthy interview published today by Eurogamer, We can say that the PC fans are going to be celebrating. As Gears of War Ultimate supports DX12 & Async Comput it will give PC gamers not only the performance increase but be able to give users with lower end hardware to achieve decent FPS with decent settings.
Technical Director for the Windows 10 Cam McRae has explained how they’re going to use DirectX 12 and even Async Compute in Gears of War Ultimate
“the game where we can have control over it. Our main effort is in parallelising the rendering system to take advantage of multiple CPU cores. Command list creation and D3D resource creation are the big focus here. We’re also pulling in optimisations from UE4 where possible, such as pipeline state object caching. On the GPU side, we’ve converted SSAO to make use of async compute and are exploring the same for other features, like MSAA.”
“We have put significant effort into making the Windows 10 version a showcase at 4K”
The assets have been tuned up to 4K resolution. Uncapped frame-rate and supports MSAA and FXAA.
We have put significant effort into making the Windows 10 version a showcase at 4K, geo and textures were re-authored with 4K in mind so the visual fidelity will really scale up on higher end hardware. We plan to uncap the frame-rate and will ship with a built-in benchmark mode. For anti-aliasing we’ll support MSAA and FXAA.
McRae would ensure that a minimum of 30fps even on weaker hardware.
While we haven’t locked how far the game will scale down, it is important to us to ensure good performance (at least 30fps) on a variety of hardware. We will support a broad range of resolutions as well as a variety of graphics options for gamers to tweak their setup.
Gears of War Ultimate sports the following features:
- Remastered for Dolby 7.1 Surround
- New Xbox Live achievements (1,250 Gamerscore)
- Concept art gallery and unlockable comics
- Modernized Multiplayer featuring:
- Dedicated servers
- Skill-based matchmaking
- New game types – Team Deathmatch, King of the Hill (Gears of War 3 style), and new 2v2 Gnasher Execution
- Total of 19 maps, including all DLC maps
- 17 unlockable Gears of War 3 characters for Multiplayer progression
- More Match customization including Actives, Respawn Time, Self-revive and Weapon Respawn
- Modernized gameplay with smoother movement and updated controls:
- Alternate Controls and all new Tournament Controls
- Adding the Gears of War 3 features you love: Enemy Spotting, Multiplayer Tac-Com, Improved sensitivity customization
Remember Gear Of War would be only work on PC if you have Windows 10.
