Just Cause 2 - GPU Water Comparison

Video comparing the two modes of water rendering in Just Cause 2 - with or without GPU acceleration.
GPU acceleration improves the water quality significantly, but also needs a lot of computing power and thus lowers your framerate.
Check out the full review here: http://www.multimolti.com/blog/2010/05/09/gpu-water-simulation-in-games-is-it...

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Gaming

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• Just
• Cause
• boats
• cruiser
• water sports
• underwater diving
• video game
• jumps
• graphics
• comparison
• water
• CUDA
• GPU
• nvidia
• ati
• amd
• graphics card
• GPGPU
• ati stream

[danielmadstv]

What do you mean by going from GPU to Normal?

[multimolti]

@danielmadstv on nvidia cards you can use the GPU or the CPU to render the water, and the gpu is much more powerful (as you can see)

[makaveli316bg]

can somebody explain to me why i don't have the gpu water simulation in video options??? Im with Asus eah5850. When i was playing with the 8800gt i had this option. Is this only for nvidia cards?

[multimolti]

@makaveli316bg yes, only for nvidia. it needs CUDA and ATI doesnt have CUDA (they have Stream which *could* do the same but the creators of JC2 decided not to use it).

[STsixx]

does this make anyone else fckn thirsty?

[shotgun9922]

gpu makes the game lag more -.-

[Ortheos2006]

The exclusive effects bullshit needs to end. ATI cards can do this too but the devs got moneyhatted into only supporting this effect on nvidia cards.

[KingSkulkZ]

heyy bro you should do more of those graphics reviews :)

[PhilLovesThrash]

The GPU water is far too dark, if it was brighter, it would look 10x better than the CPU water.

[CaptianKeyz]

Pretty big difference on the water surface. You need a pretty fast system for it. It looks like your frams rate dropped quite a bit.

[mrcow94]

I'm getting that same CPU and i'm getting the 460, I can't wait.

[newmetalnow]

You can play this game on the PlayBox 363, it looks pretty good too.

[AyZeD]

the difference is barely noticable at all.. well done......

[TheCommanderEddy]

@gumberly Lrn2Google