NVIDIA showcased Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV running in real-time on its new NVIDIA Volta GPU

At GTC 2017, NVIDIA revealed the first Volta GPU that is aimed at very high end of the compute market. And while a gamer/consumer GPU based on Volta won’t be coming out – most probably – until 2018, the green team showcased Square Enix’s Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV running on it.

[Nu]

Kingsglaive actually had me asking is this real or cgi at certain points. It's sad to say but the film outshines the game.

[Darkwatchman]

No it didn't. FF15 was not a very good game, but the film was trash. One of the worst movies I've seen in my life. I like to rag on about how bad FF15 is to my friends, but it actually isn't THAT bad. The film is far worse as a film than the game is as a game.

[JayPi3]

So FF15 is not a very good game, but at the same time isn't that bad? What? I think the biggest mistakes of the film is that it exist at all, these story lines should've just been interwoven into the game. I would rather much prefer to have the hour or two the movie last just written into the game as a prologue chapter that may be optional for players to play though, rather than pass it off as a movie that we have to watch to fully understand a game we just bought.

I mean the graphics of the CGI are nice, but that money could've been spent working on optimizing the main game, which till this day is still getting updates, patches, and fixes to the point where a full chapter had to be re written.

[ShockUltraslash]

Kingsglaive was better than Suicide Squad.

[Darkwatchman]

@Jay

The context is like this. Do you ever insult your friends as a form of greeting them. I regularly trash games that aren't actually awful with my friends. If a game is just okay, I'll use that playful banter and jokingly refer to the game as trash all the time. I think FF15 is a mediocre game. Average. Nothing special. The movie, however, is complete garbage.

[Omnislashver36]

I think the movie could have been shortened to a 15 minute cutscene for the game and that would have sufficed. Really the game wasn't great but that movie was dragged out trash, but those graphics were pretty insane. I'm wondering if FFXVI will be almost that level with graphics.

[rainslacker]

I think trash is a bit extreme.

It had a good story, but seemed longer than it needed to be, and it relied a bit too much on having a cursory knowledge of who some of these characters were.

It was like a super long extended intro cut scene for the game, but it was rounded out in the story and character development aspects. At least for some of the main characters. For most of the characters, and their motivations, it didn't do very good in making me know why I should care about them.

But I found this true of the game itself as well. But that was more the lack of focus on the story to opt for an open world presentation. but the game itself was good otherwise. Great game play, boring predicatable story, with characters I didn't care about much. Nice enough world to explore, but mostly lame side quests which took all urgency away from actually progressing.

[Irishguy95]

Spoilers

Agreed! The movie was a huge let down, the king had about 3 lines, its was cheesy as hell. Nyx was the only redeeming part of the movie. It had so little emotion, the kings death could have been great, Luna coulda had a personality. The pacing was terrible too. Who directed it ffs! Even Nyx death was mediocre and he practically went out the same way as Noctis.

The game had interesting characters(outside of cutscenes/exploring)
It had a great villain
It had a great ending, seems to be generally recieved as one of the best in FF
Then there was the game side of it which was done well.

What it missed was incomplete content. Missing story segments, essentially banking on the excuse that it was all from Noctis perspective. It pulled a dark souls on the back story and explained it in an extremely hard dungeon called piteos.

@ShockUltraSlash
Thats not saying much at all.

[its_JEFF]

Gonna have to admit, I actually thought the same thing. I had to do a double take, that's some good CGI.

[Trilithon]

not sure how they could hire such expensive voice talent and then write such a lame script.. they obcvioulsy rushed it out as part of their marketing for FF15. ive give them props for trying though. no only was the cg high quality but there was more of it than any holly wood movie. take WARCRAFT for example. another terrible movie....

[Iras_]

*NVIDIA showcased one character from Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV running in real-time on its new NVIDIA Volta GPU

[CrazedFiend]

Yes. Misleading title.

[Fishy Fingers]

Did you expect them to recreate the 2 hour entire movie for a tech demo?? The point is to show the potential for CG level visuals.

It's incredibly impressive for real time. But I guess someone can always find fault.

[jaycptza]

@Fishy Fingers howabout running 4 characters at least? Not on model and that oesn't quite hit teh quality of the movie anyway

[cartoonx1]

yup, and just one character can be done on current nvidia/amd gpu too.

[Fishy Fingers]

You should of told Nvidia that...

[Tech5]

"*NVIDIA showcased one character from Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV running in real-time on its new NVIDIA Volta GPU"

well don't forget Kingsglaive was also created using assets not optimized for gaming. In the making of Agni's philosophy video the artists said they spent unnecessary resources on the smallest things for their movie characters. because they're not meant to be used for games. millions of polygons for just hair and facial hair alone.

this video is also not high resolution enough to show you all of the little details. the video should be in 4k to match the 4k content being rendered.

[jaycptza]

This is not a game, could at least had 2 charachters

[masterfox]

you know what would be impressive ?, while moving the camera someone grab a gamepad and start jumping and doing some crazy fighting moves, now that would be mighty awesome, I think we aren't far away from that, imagine a Devil May Cry with this level of detail!.

[Derceto]

If Nvidia showcased a Volta trying to render one scene from Kingsglaive, they would be showcasing a Volta bursting into flames. Nice clickity-click title though.

[ShadowKnight]

That new Gpu!!!

[corroios]

its impressive!!!!!

[its_JEFF]

I actually kinda hate these things... I think it's impressive, but it's such a tease. No real-time game is gonna get close to that for a while, geometry/texture quality, so I don't see the point... I'm mostly disappointed that I can't play anything that looks that good.

[hollabox]

Not bad, but the PS4 game The Order 1866 from 2014 looks comparable on significantly less powerful hardware with more characters, and background objects onscreen. I mean a single character swaying in a room filled with almost nothing? Show the scenes near the end with the giant demons, and metal statues fighting, or the epic battler in the beginning if you want to impress me.

[ProjectVulcan]

Yeah it's just a quickly knocked up tech demo though, something like The Order 1886 takes years to build. Over 4 years for that game. As you pointed out though Volta GV100 which was shown is insanely more powerful than PS4.

It certainly isn't unrealistic to think if a new generation of consoles arrives in 3-4 years, they will probably be close to as fast as this Volta GPU shown today. GPU tech moves that quickly. Original 2013 PS4's GPU is as fast as the fastest GPU in the world 3 years before it launched.

To put it into perspective if PS4 Pro's (yes PRO!) GPU is just shy performance wise of a GTX1060, then Volta is about FOUR times more powerful.....you read that right. This single GPU is four times faster than PS4 Pro.

So imagine something built with the time and care of The Order 1886 but on hardware like that. It really isn't far away.

[hollabox]

Unfortunately all that power goes to waste as they're almost never fully taken advantage of the graphics card unlike consoles. Four times the performance is good for FPS, but you probably won't see four times the visual splendor for four years. Nvidia is particularly bad about supporting their previous generation. In one generation I've seen $400 graphics cards match the previous $1000 graphics card. The Pascal 1070 is almost as fast as the Maxwell Titan, the 970 is comparable to the Kepler Titan and so fourth.

[ProjectVulcan]

It certainly doesn't go to waste, especially now when we are in an era where there is a massive hike in resolution to reach the standard that is arriving - 4K.

PS4 Pro itself has a GPU more than twice as fast as PS4, but it still isn't nearly enough to convert 1080p PS4 titles into 4K native ones. Xbox Scorpio will probably only just about manage the same sort of assets of Xbox One games in native 4K, with minimal improvements to the base game beyond resolution.

So at this point if you want native 4K games in the near future, possibly with 60FPS and with additional enhancements to the assets, you need a HUGE boost in performance.

While The Order looks great at 1920 x 800 and 30FPS, it isn't going to compare to a 4K PC game running in 60FPS with all the bells and whistles that hardware like this will enable.

[hollabox]

Oh yes it does for the vast majority of gamers. 1080P is the standard gaming monitor by an wide margin. Until 4K overtake something like 1440P, anything higher than a 1060 or AMD 580 is wasting money unless you want to run 144hz at 1080P. As mentioned, you can pay $1000 plus for a graphics card Nvidia will cripple the following year to make their $400 graphics card with lower power consumption look more tantalizing. High end graphics cards makes no sense when most modern PC games are designed to run at non pro PS4 graphics fidelity with better shadows, and AA. This Volta card will not be able to flex it's muscles until the next gen consoles arrives as this has been the case for the last decade or so with a few exceptions of course. I mean look at how long DX9 stayed in play, DX11 couldn't take off until consoles using 2012 tech arrived in 2013. Hell go back to the mid 2000s, multi core programming didn't become mainstream until the consoles showed up to push the industry. Volta true potential in the gaming world will sit idle for a generation which by that time a new Nvidia graphics King card will flex it's pixel pushing muscles.

[ProjectVulcan]

The reason why you are obviously wrong is because if you spend $700 on a video card like a high end 1080ti and by extension a high end Volta when it arrives in the next 12 months you aren't playing at 1080p.....

All that performance will be welcome to push 4K for PC gamers. PC gamers will be the ones that widely adopt 4K first. Even with Scorpio you'll be waiting for another generation before most console games render in 4K,

That means a good 3-4 years from now. By then 4K will have a much higher uptake amongst PC gamers.

[JCW2005]

All this bs yet still no pc version of FFXV announced.... ugh

[Trilithon]

square will reveal later it was actually 8 volta SLI with a price tag of 500k aka BS

[Cryptcuzz]

I'm sure Volta will be a beastly card. Only thing I care about in terms of video cards now is to hurry up with the release date for it. That way the 1080 TI will be reduced in price, so I can build a gaming PC with it.

[KTF26]

Why 1080 ti?
more likely GTX 2070 (or whatever they'll call it) will be more powerful for $400
nvidia's recent history tells this from GTX 670 vs GTX 580 until GTX 1070 vs Titan X (Maxwell)

and maybe we won't see Geforce Volta until next year or Q4 at best

[Cryptcuzz]

Damn really? When do you think that will be released? I'll just wait for that one instead then. Based on their records, when do you think that will most likely be released?

[KTF26]

no info
most likely it'll be released simultaneously with GTX 2080 (or whatever)
and I don't think we will see them before Q4 at best but who knows?

[Cryptcuzz]

Going to wait on the AMD Vega Nova info as well. Maybe I will get that, need more info.
If it is competitive to 1080 TI and lower cost, maybe it will lower the price of the 1080 TI.

I am aiming for 4K 60FPS for my gaming PC.
The last time I bothered with building a PC was when StarCraft 2 came out LMAO.
So it has been a long time coming and steam now has native Playstation controller support with on screen prompts reflecting that. So it would be cool to have a PS4 Pro for exclusives and a gaming PC for third party games available on steam.