Frostbite Engine's Advanced Graphical Effects Revealed in Screenshots/Videos; PS4 Performance Shared

At Siggraph 2015 EA DICE Showcased its Frostbite engine and some of its advanced graphical effects in three talks titled “Stochastic Screen-Space Reflections” by Tomasz Stachowiak and “Physically-based & Unified Volumetric Rendering in Frostbite” by Sebastien Hillaire.

[Doritos_Pope]

amazing!

[Abriael]

Yeah. People rile endlessly on Dice, but frostbite is probably the best engine out there, at the moment.

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

Its a jack of all trades really. Most engines that look really good have at least one major flaw, rather it be Water, Physics, lighting, textures, etc. but Frostbite seems to be at least "Good" on everything

[Grap]

@GUTZnPAPERCUTZ
We don't know the flaws because it's internal engine only used by EA because it's their engine.

[starchild]

I agree. Some of the best-looking upcoming games, like Star Wars Battlefront and Mirror's Edge Catalyst, are made with Frostbite.

[BallsEye]

UE4 is at the moment superior to frostbite on all fronts. Scalability is just out of this world. I recommend you try it out, it's free. You will be amazed .

[death_gun]

PS4 is reall amazing, no wonder it's selling like hotcakes since is the most powerful console on the market

[Neixus]

You can thank Dice for the engine, this isn't about Ps4, Xbox or the PC.

[RegorL]

PS4 kind of matches DICE most wanted hardware from 2010
- lots of parallelism (GPGPU)
- unified memory

http://www.frostbite.com/20...

[alabtrosMyster]

Well, frostbite games do run better on the ps4 than on the XB1... obviously if you have a good gaming PC it will run even better on it too...

The platform the use to show off their tech is the one they feel is most relevant to it,last get it was often the 360 as it ran most games better, this time around it's the PS4 because, well games run better on it... PC versions are too un-predictible.

[Kiwi66]

And that is relevant to the article in what way exactly

[raymantalk1]

death_gun makes a true statement the ps4 is the best console on the market at the moment FACT, this does not mean the xbox1 aint a good console it is, but its hardware is not as good as the ps4 FACT, live with it dont just deny the truth.

[guyman]

Ps4 is really just a mid range pc at best. Nothing amazing at all. A console is defined by it's games, that's what makes it amazing.

[TheXgamerLive]

@DeathGun,

Shhhhhhh quite now, let the big boys talk.

Console power has been uprooted now by the XB1 Dx12 and Azure Cloud but to be honest its all good so chilax and game.

No console has to try and spank another its all good Wii U too:)

On topic. I agree UE4 is a bit more life like but no, not all games go for true to life. They all have their strengths.

[Dannylew]

Unreal Engine is the most overrated Engine on the planet...

and no... it's not life like.... UnrealEngine is completely LIFELESS...

[TheXgamerLive]

Now now you know that's a lie. That's like saying a corvette is a slow sports car. Its NOT slow, maybe not my or your fav but not slow.

[DrDunc]

Looks great, my only one gripe with the frostbite engine is the water, they just cant seem to nail it. BF4 was a bit of an improvement. Sure they will get there soon enough though

[HaHa_Ostrich]

So nice, so smooth. But really, what do these numbers mean? At 900p resolution is it a good benchmark or something?

[turdburgler1080]

I'm surprised they displayed it in 1600x900p.

[Abriael]

Resolution is scalable. Any resolution is a good benchmark if you know the variables.

[CertifiedGamer]

Dice made the best move by choosing 900p@60fps instead of 1080p@30fps specially when the next gen consoles launched and 1080p was the popular thing to do amongst developers.

[isarai]

Really hope those volumetrics make it into Catalyst on the console versions

[FoxyGotGame]

Is Star Wars Battlefront Displaying/Running @900p or 1080p, but 60fps? If so, Dice are really talented to make it look that good and run that smoothly on Consoles.

I've only had the videos I've watched to go on /

[Kiwi66]

Thats a good question have they said what it will be but regardless i'm still getting Battlefront on xb1 so i can play with my friends

[FoxyGotGame]

1080p would be nice, but I'm guessing 900p 60fps like BF Hardline. Hope you enjoy it with your friends MrKrispy!

[alabtrosMyster]

Outside the forums I don't know anyone who owns an XB1! ... only PS4s here!

[CertifiedGamer]

As long as its 60 fps I don't care if it doesn't hit 1080p. Frame rate is far more important than resolution for first person shooters.

[FoxyGotGame]

Not really about whether you care ...I simply asked because either 900p or 1080p @60fps, given the awesome footage I have seen, makes me really appreciate DICE and shows their technical skills on these consoles.

No Agenda Here /

[Kiwi66]

Gotta love people on here as you get disagrees for 1 asking a question and 2 saying that i will be getting a multiplat game on xb1 without trashing any other console so what the heck did i say thats wrong or is it due to some people being fanboys because i'm going to play it along with my friends on xb1 then you need to grow up

[FlexLuger]

"so what the heck did i say thats wrong or is it due to some people being fanboys because i'm going to play it along with my friends on xb1 then you need to grow up2

The fact that you are getting it on XB1 is why people disagree. Of course I will be buying it on X1 for the same reasons. MP games are better with friends.

[MasterCornholio]

Truth is even if you said you would get it for the PS4 you would get disagrees.

Its not like its difficult for some random person to hit the agree or disagree button.

[Dannylew]

Where is the

XBOXFAIL 180 ... THE POWWWA OF DA CLAAAAAAAAUUUUUDDDDDD with DX 12 ?.

[hesido]

They've really hit the nail on its head with their SSR technique, I don't think anything screen space is going to look better than that, they even have "contact hardening" reflections, mighty impressive.