At the ongoing Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Ubisoft and NVIDIA have announced a brand new partnership that will see top notch Ubisoft titles being enhanced for PC with exclusive features and other impressive graphical effects.
The move comes as a great news for the hardcore PC following with titles such as Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag and Splinter Cell: Blacklist at the front of the line to receive benefits from the agreement. Now, the list adds one more name to it – Ubisoft’s upcoming open-world hackathon Watch Dogs.
“NVIDIA TXAA is a PC-exclusive film-style Anti-Aliasing (AA) technique designed specifically to tackle temporal aliasing, the visible movement of anti-aliased edges when the camera or player’s viewpoint is in motion,” the official page states.
“Combining hardware AA techniques, custom CG movie-style AA resolves and a temporal filter, TXAA creates a clear, smooth image that is free from almost all aliasing, edge crawling, and flickering, which is particularly noticeable when viewing fine detail, motes and other particle effects without the aid of TXAA.”
While we are not really sure what new technology will be featured in the PC version of Watch Dogs opposed to its console counterparts, it is still news of some magnitude with the industry showing that it hasn’t really given up on those of us who still like gaming the old way.
What we actually know is that with the partnership with NVIDIA, realistic shadowing and shading are on the cards, apart from the decrease of aliasing, edge crawling, and flickering. Moreover, with the availability Ambient Occlusion, it will be easier for the developers to work with accurate object-based shadows that account for the occlusion of light rays from light sources.
Tony Key, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing at Ubisoft stated that he believes that “combining NVIDIA’s visual computing expertise and the creativity of our development teams will give customers a stunning experience when choosing an Ubisoft game.”
Tony Tamasi, Senior Vice President of Content and Technology at NVIDIA added that NVIDIA has “worked closely with Ubisoft’s incredibly talented creative team throughout the development process to incorporate our technologies and deliver the most immersive and visually spectacular game worlds imaginable.”
Watch Dogs is currently scheduled for a Nov. 19 release in North America for both current and next generation consoles, and will be a launch title for both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
