So we first started hearing about this with The Evil Within and (judging by some screenshots) possibly Wolfenstein.
I assumed this was just ZeniMax trying to get around idtech5 performance issues in a way others were unlikely to attempt, but now that they're not the only high profile projects doing it, I wanted to raise the question if people think others will try it as well.
The notable advantage here is you render 280 less horizontal lines of pixels, saving a notable amount of performance to spend elsewhere. The down side is that you get black bars even on 16:9 (1.77:1 ratio) widescreen television.
For reference, here are a couple of screens of how it will look like. If you have a 1080p monitor, right click them and hit view image to see approximately how much screen space will be filled by black bars.
I assumed this was just ZeniMax trying to get around idtech5 performance issues in a way others were unlikely to attempt, but now that they're not the only high profile projects doing it, I wanted to raise the question if people think others will try it as well.
The notable advantage here is you render 280 less horizontal lines of pixels, saving a notable amount of performance to spend elsewhere. The down side is that you get black bars even on 16:9 (1.77:1 ratio) widescreen television.
Source: http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/ugdcas/the-order--1886-e3-2013--an-altered-historyI don't think it is, I think the guy on the Bombcast said it's all the time. As is The Evil Within by the way.Could be just for cutscenes.24, son. It's already in scope too. Dat 800p.
For reference, here are a couple of screens of how it will look like. If you have a 1080p monitor, right click them and hit view image to see approximately how much screen space will be filled by black bars.