Nvidia Ancel - a boon for content creators?

Titus Balls

Titus Balls
Nvidia also revealed Ancel - an in-game 3D camera system, allowing you to pause gameplay, adjust special effects, brightness, field of view and then create your own 2D, 3D and surround screenshots using anything up to 1000x resolution. The Division, The Witness, Lawbreakers, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Paragon, No Man's Sky and Unreal Tournament are all set to receive Ancel support. Although it seems to operate at the driver level, clearly developer support is essential here in getting Ancel properly integrated.
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-nvidia-unveils-gtx-1080-and-gtx-1070

Can you just imagine ED supporting this :eek:
 

Sugarat

Sugarat
I can't help thinking there's a catch to this, seems too good to be true.. may have to plan a small upgrade in the next few months :)
 

wstephenson

wstephenson
It would be great, but as it's a Nvidia api that requires a 10xx card, the user base is small, and as Cobra is a proprietary FD platform, they would have to bear the costs of adding support themselves. I doubt it would be a priority for FD, and their games' reach isn't big enough for Nvidia to pay them to support it.
 

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Dumb question.

Does anyone think the price of 900-series will go down soon? Considering a second 960. (Please no insistence that I just get a 970/980. My mum bought my card, rest of my PC was bought myself though. It would be an insult to not use the card for a while longer, hence me looking at getting a second 960.)
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
V8UC ALICORN said:
Dumb question.

Does anyone think the price of 900-series will go down soon? Considering a second 960. (Please no insistence that I just get a 970/980. My mum bought my card, rest of my PC was bought myself though. It would be an insult to not use the card for a while longer, hence me looking at getting a second 960.)
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Been widely assumed prices will go down this year a lot for the 9xx cards. If thats soon depends on you. :) A 960 should run 2.1 fine, so there's not much need for it right now I'd say.
 
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Deleted member 110222

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sleutelbos said:
Been widely assumed prices will go down this year a lot for the 9xx cards. If thats soon depends on you. :) A 960 should run 2.1 fine, so there's not much need for it right now I'd say.
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More for other games, the second card is. :) But thanks, good to know.
 

Xokan

Xokan
xondk said:
Very.....very interesting idea, though there is the whole pause issue, which you can't really do with Elite,
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I guess it will work like the 4x Screenshots. It stops the refresh of the scene, while the client ticks on in backround.
 

xondk

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Xokan said:
I guess it will work like the 4x Screenshots. It stops the refresh of the scene, while the client ticks on in backround.
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Yeah, it could keep the game engine running behind, and just hand over control of camera to player similar to photo camera currently, players own risk if anything happens while they are taking 360 degree pictures and such.
 

Elan

Elan
V8UC ALICORN said:
Dumb question.

Does anyone think the price of 900-series will go down soon? Considering a second 960. (Please no insistence that I just get a 970/980. My mum bought my card, rest of my PC was bought myself though. It would be an insult to not use the card for a while longer, hence me looking at getting a second 960.)
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Don't really know how much they'll come down by? You might get some good deals if you want to go 2nd hand but for reference I bought a GTX 780 2 years ago for £400 and checking Amazon they've only dropped to £375 retail.
 

Derath

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the price needs to utterly tank if the performance stats are right as they are going to invalidate all the previous cards in terms of performance per pound (or dollar), i'd wait for some benchmarks but as it looks at the moment the 970 would need to be ~150-200 and the 980 only slightly above. 980Ti's will still have some life in them but they are the best of the current batch.
 
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