Batman: Arkham Asylum - nVidia PhysX PC trailer

Rocksteady and nVidia have released a trailer demonstrating the pc exclusive use PhysX technology available only in the PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Format: Streaming HD @ 720p HD
Length: 1:37 minutes

[Pandamobile]

PhysX may seem gimmicky at first, but it really does add a whole new level of detail in the game. All the paper flying around, the volumetric fog, the spiderwebs, and the cloth flags are an awesome spectacle to behold in a game.

[Moragami]

I sure hope the frame rate is better than it was for that video. While the video looked awesome it was getting like 1 or 2 FPS. I assume that was to slow it down to show off the effects but I found it annoying.

[Darkfocus]

psysx is awesome but the fact that its only available on nvidia cards makes it gimmicky seeing as many ati cards could easily handle

[sloth4urluv]

Framerate was fine, there is a difference between framerate and time dilation.

[Pandamobile]

That's because Nvidia bought Agiea, the guys that made that PPU (physics processing unit) a couple years ago and jammed it into the new Nvidia graphics cards :P

[Johnny_Cojones]

This is the version I preordered. Got a great deal on Amazon. In the last year I've been converted to a half pc/half console gamer. I have the PC versions of Fallout 3 & GTA 4 as well as the XBOX360 versions, & the visual fidelity on the PC versions is incredible by comparison.

My only problem with PC gaming is that games are more likely to have issues on day one than console releases.

It took a good bit for the PC GTA 4 to smooth out.

[Pandamobile]

Well, GTA IV was a direct port of the 360 version.

Hence why it runs like balls on most systems. Very poor optimization. You have nothing to worry about with Batman: AA. The PC was the lead platform and ran great for me with PhysX and everything on max.

There's a demo to try out if you haven't already.

[likedamaster]

"Well, GTA IV was a direct port of the 360 version.

Hence why it runs like balls on most systems."

Another generalized statement from you. Tsk tsk. Gears 1 port to PC looks and runs better on PC, utilizes all 4 cores(for quadcore) unlike Crysis.

GTAIV felt like another "Crysis". Poorly optimized code and broken. I first popped in Crysis it wouldn't look side to side, it wouldn't do this or that. If you didn't max your RAM you weren't getting anywhere with even triple-sli of the latest GPU as far as visuals were concerned.

[Pandamobile]

But Gears 1 runs on the UE3 engine, which is already fantastically optimized for PC. They had to port the entire GTA IV engine from the 360 version.

And Crysis uses all 8 of my threads when I play it. When I look at my CPU activity all 4 cores and 8 threads are averaging 30-40% usage.

[Pizzagaki]

Ah yes, Batman, the ultimate in your face to Unreal engine haters.

[dirthurts]

I don't have an Nvidia card. I wonder if there will be a notable difference?

[micro_invader]

I just downloaded the demo from Steam on my new PC and it euns as smooth as butter with PhysX and everything!!

I'm sorry, I'm a bit excited as it's my first time with a proper gaming PC (I was too poor back then :p ) and I am loving every second of it. =D

*Goes away to download more demos*

[TABSF]

can max this out with 16x AA at 1920 by 1080 on my GTX 285, the demo is enough till the game is released, must buy, going to be GoTY till GT5