Borderlands 2 - NVIDIA GTX 680 Tech Demo (Cam)

DSOGaming writes: "In order to celebrate the launch of GTX 680, Nvidia held a party at San Francisco’s Mezzanine Lounge. In this party, the company showcased Borderlands 2 with its PhysX features that will accompany the PC version of it. In addition, the company has revealed an official tech demo for it that can be viewed below. Expect to see a HD version of it in the coming days but until then, enjoy this cam version!"

[NYC_Gamer]

I'm happy the new games are being built around Nvidia cards and their features.Its good that Nvidia goes the extra mile to make sure that studios are brought on and ready to support.

[Sano64]

Nvidia really needs to get more studieos to use PhysX but I guess thats hard with so many games being console ports...

[humbleopinion]

It's even harder with Nvidia blocking their own cards from the ability to use Physx when used together with an ATI card as a primary video card...
I understand why developers don't like this. Vendor locked technologies that block their potential audience aren't worth investing time in

[wicko]

Weren't they demoing the cloth physics with Mirror's Edge? Pushing liquids around seems new though.

[john2]

Alice featured liquid physics and interaction as well ;)

[wicko]

So basically none of this stuff is new or exclusive to the GTX 680, unlike what the video would like us to believe..

Still thinking about buying a 680 when they are back in stock anyway.

[ginsunuva]

I still think resistance 3 has the best water effects.

[Skate-AK]

No. R3 water was crap. R2 and KZ3 water was awesome though.

[moredekai]

Loving the physx effects. Few wishes though. Hope it isn't as performance eating as Batman arkham city's, which was so unoptimized. Hope it isn't made with the old rendition of physx, I hope it is made with the same one displayed at GDC. And finally, I hope it doesn't take a 680 to run like they recommended, I'm hoping the 2 560s I have will run this at 1080 with the physx. I'm fine giving up some AA if i can. Overall though it looks great and I'm very excited now! The physx looks better than Batman's when you consider the cloth dynamically rips, and they went for the fluid dynamics as well. Might be one of the better pc games this year if they do it right, which they said they would, courtesy of a letter from claptrap.

[Mythicninja]

so does this mean the game will look like crap on my AMD6950 card?

[NYC_Gamer]

Nah,it just won't make use of the Nvidia only features.

[Mythicninja]

Good to hear. Features have never been a deal breaker for me

[iamgoatman]

Maybe not like crap, but probably not relative to the cards actual potential performance. The first Borderlands was incredibly Nvidia biased, and judging by this I'd be surprised if the second was any different. Of course you're not going to get PhysX support anyway, but overall performance could be another matter.

I remember the dynamic shadows in Borderlands crippled my framerate on my ATI 5850, to the point when it ran close to my old 8800GT on the same settings, which is just terrible.

Gearbox could prove me wrong though, and I hope they do because I loved the first Borderlands, but I'll be waiting to see some benches before picking up the second.

[Plagasx]

Oh boy, I think this means shitty performance...I fucking hate physx. It only rapes fps.

[Daz]

IM ready to play :)

[urwifeminder]

AMD forever lol.

[LAWSON72]

as cool as those features i am stunned by the new animations

[Letros]

Nice, can't wait, love PhysX effects.

[CanadianTurtle]

Wait, so since I'm playing it on console, I'm gonna have to play the shitty looking version? How far is the gap between the console versions and this new graphics card thing they're talking about?

[Jacobite]

It will look good on the console but just better on a good PC. even PC gamers have this problem, chill don't worry : )