It could be that the soundtrack has been composed to sound like a fable game, thus it sounds like elfman, as his style informed the whole fable series soundtrack. Fable legends directx 12 performance revealed the tech. Even more importantly, microsoft then worked with epic to get directx 12 support baked into unreal engine 4, and to build a tech demo of fable legends that uses dx12. Fable legends stunning visuals were created using unreal engine 4, so, we asked our friends at lionhead if theyd do a bit of experimentation with us.
Windows 10 gamers will enter fable legends version of albion later this. Fable legends pc dx12 gameplay showcases some nice. Dx12 fable legends beta benchmarks anandtech forums. This title will be released on the xbox one and for windows 10 pcs and it will require the use of dx12. Microsofts unreal engine 4powered exclusive, fable legends, will be freetoplay on windows 10 pcs and xbox one. Fable legends uses dx12, and according lionheads studio director, the performance gain from dx12 is quite a bit on both pc and xbox one. If youre looking for help with audio, video and hardware driver issues while playing a game on windows 10, youre in the right place.
Fable legends coming on pc, crossplay with xb1, uses dx12. I am sure ms have other cross platform games in mind smite may even use it by the time windows x rolls out. Maxwell delivers unmatched performance, twice the energy efficiency of the previous generation, and major new graphics capabilities including the latest directx 12 dx12 advancements. If ashes of the singularity gave us a peek at how dx12 would handle several dozen units and intense particle effects, fable legends looks more like a.
With the background and context of the benchmark covered, we now dig into the data and see what we have to look forward to with directx 12 game performance. Fable legends xbox one using asynchronous compute and efficient multithreaded rendering. Fable legends played across xbox one and windows 10 youtube. Microsoft release directx 12 fable legends benchmark microsoft has released a directx 12 fable legends benchmark. Nvidia this week announced maxwell, our 10th generation gpu architecture. Combining the worlds fastest gpu hardware with a highquality graphics driver made for the perfect showcase for the nextgeneration features of windows 10 and directx 12. Early fable legends directx 12 performance is similar to current. This improved performance is not only for pc but also the xbox one. As directx 12 and windows 10 roll out across the pc ecosystem, the number of. If you are using windows 10, try it out by running the engine with dx12 on the command line. Fable legends gets 40% faster performance with dx12. Geforce directx 12 drivers for windows 10 now whql. I am sorry to know that you are facing issues with windows 10.
Microsofts upcoming freetoplay game fable legends for windows 10 and the xbox one will use both unreal engine 4 and directx 12. Its not much of a looker, but it uses some pretty impressive tech. When launched, players can play in 4 vs 1 game play across both pcs and xbox one in real time. Fable legends dx12 benchmarked page 2 techpowerup forums. Dx12 powered fable legends gets new screens, windows 10. I think that for normal 3d action games, the difference between dx12 and dx11 isnt going to be notable. Fable legends to be freetoplay on windows 10 and xbox.
I know danny elfman wrote the main theme and maybe more for the original fable, not sure if he is doing this new game. The resulting tech demo created by lionhead showcases the rich, immersive graphics of albion that are possible with dx12 and maxwell. Dx12 performance testing continues when approached a couple of weeks ago by microsoft with the opportunity to take an early look at an. Maxwell and directx 12 delivered the official nvidia blog. Directx 12 lights up nvidias maxwell launch directx. Im not a fable person though, my horizon has deus ex on it. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. The driver shiproom schedule is a document microsoft uses to give. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services.
Same with ashes of the singularity and probably the coming fable legends. Which is the whole point of the nonsense around the dx12 sucks for nvidia myth. Fable legends dx12 benchmarked page 3 techpowerup forums. Directx 12 for xbox one is here star wars battlefront. Microsofts upcoming freetoplay game fable legends for windows 10 and the xbox one will use both unreal engine 4. Unless you have a huge and dense landscape, or hundreds of ai agents, or complex destruction in your game, stuff like that in other words, if you are cpu heavy, you arent going to see big differences. Fable legends is a free to play coop action rpg in the fable series.
Fable legends coming to pc, supports xbox one cross. Unreal engine 4 now supports directx 12 windows central. Today we dive into the world of fable legends, an upcoming free to play. One and for windows 10 pcs and it will require the use of dx12. Each game with each graphical requirement will lean towards various elements of the api. Windows 10 powers up pc gaming with directx 12, native dvr, deep xbox integration. Windows 10 powers up pc gaming with directx 12, native dvr. Thank you for posting the query on microsoft community. Fable legends is a cancelled cooperative action roleplaying video game developed by lionhead studios and projected to be published by microsoft studios for microsoft windows and xbox one. Graphics performance comparison fable legends early. This game and benchmark are beautiful today we dive into the world of fable legends, an upcoming free to play based on the world of albion. The final game will work with directx 11 as well as dx12, and it was almost surely developed with the older api and its requirements in mind. Dice is considering to implement dx12 with starwars battlefront.
Whyte said this will be a major boost to the performance. There are other facets to fable legends that make this a particularly interesting matchup, even if its still very early in the dx12 development cycle. But things have been quieter on the xbox one front, particularly after the cancellation of fable legends, the first title touted to use dx12 on the x1. Microsofts engineers added support for directx 12 to ue4 and we have worked with them to integrate their changes into 4. You will see more during 2016 i know people might not like dx12, but ms is pushing windows 10. Games such as fable legends will be able to use the programming interface to allow crossplatform play between windows 10 pc and. Fable legends also has many other features that make it rather unique. You can run a test with one of three prebaked options. The game sets up four heroes and a villain which may be players or ai to take. Fable legends is coming to xbox one and windows 10 in 2015. The windows 10 closed beta of fable legends starts in august. Dx12 is a relatively new creation, and fable legends has clearly been in development for quite some time.
Directx 12 will indeed be exclusive to windows 10 windows central. Microsoft has announced at todays windows 10 event that fable legends, the latest chapter in lionheads longrunning fable series, is heading to the pc, and will feature crossplatform play with. Rather than using the usual channels, it seems that fable legends will only be available through the windows 10 store. The game which hitherto ran on direct x 11 dx11 will get dx12. In preparation for the release of the freetoplay fable legends game on both xbox one and pc this winter, microsoft and lionhead studios released a benchmark today that allows users to test performance of their pc hardware configuration with a directx 12 based game engine that pushes the boundaries of render quality. Fable legends is an xbox onewindows 10 exclusive free to play title built by lionhead studios in unreal engine 4. Fable legends xbox one using asynchronous compute and. Fable legends pc will be exclusive to the windows 10 store.
Fable legends will arrive on pc and it will have crossplay with xbox one. Lionheads studio director, stuart whyte has revealed that there is a major shakeup for fable legends. Geforce has been the gpu of choice for key dx12 demos from microsoft since the api was announced. Uniting thrilling stories, exciting combat and heroic quests with the next generation capabilities of the xbox one and windows 10 pc, fable legends is the forthcoming adventure in the genre defining series fable. Fable legends dx12 benchmark stressing high end gpus. Many people are hoping that directx 12 will bring better performance in pc games no matter the circumstances, thanks to. You can play the game single player, with a party of three heroic ai companions that follow your. The game has also been confirmed to use directx 12. Watch the gorgeous fable legends dx12 benchmark in 4k. Fable legends, the latest addition to the lionheaddeveloped adventure series, will ship on both pc and xbox one during microsofts windows 10.
Microsoft announced the cancellation of the game on 7 march 2016. Overclock3d article fable legends dx12 benchmark amd vs nvidia fable legends benchmark amd vs. Confirmation came from lionheads social media coordinator, lauran, on twitter. So it will ultimately be another game that gets to claim the. As described in a detailed earlier this year in a blog post from the game developers conference gdc, dx12 is. The game, styled as a cooperative action rpg, consists of asymmetrical multiplayer matches with attackers trying to raid a base and the defender playing more of a tower defense position. Fable legends is an xbox onewindows 10 exclusive free to play. It uses the unreal 4 engine and nvidia and epic, unreals. Magic is rife and all manner of creatures and miscreants inhabit the world off the beaten track. For instance, its one of the very first games to support directx12, microsofts new api that should let you squeeze more performance out of your hardware thanks to its improvements. In general, performance in fable legends using directx 12 looks very similar to what youd get from. Today we dive into the world of fable legends, an upcoming free to play based on the world of albion. The hardware configuration used for the video features a core i76700k, 16gb ddr42800, an evga geforce gtx 980 ti 6gb and windows 10 pro x64. The first game to allow the crossplatform play will be fable legends later this year.
Fable legends will release later this year, so to keep all of us interested in it, this prerelease benchmark aims to show off the graphical grunt modern gpus are capable of in directx 12. If ashes of the singularity gave us a peek at how dx12 would handle several dozen units and intense particle effects, fable legends looks more like a conventional firstperson rpg or fps. Surprisingly, ea dice have already released a game on the xbox one which uses the new gaming api. Fable legends is a gorgeous looking game based on the benchmark we have here inhouse thanks in some part the modifications that the lionhead studios team has made to the ue4 dx12 implementation. Fable dx12 benchmarks amd so far 2 for 2 in dx12 wins. Additionally, spencer announced that unity has adopted directx 12. This title will be released on the xbox one and for windows 10 pcs and it will require the use.
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