Global Illumination and Point Light Shadows Preview

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looks cool :) great work :)

at the present time my gpu will not support dx11.
what is the lowest cost and units for a power supply? and nvidia gpu necessary to see all the wonderful items poe will have? is the gpu in the $400us or $120us range?

please keep in mind us users of less than optimum tech.

thank you for the interest

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kilgoretroutjr wrote:

at the present time my gpu will not support dx11.
what is the lowest cost and units for a power supply? and nvidia gpu necessary to see all the wonderful items poe will have? is the gpu in the $400us or $120us range?

please keep in mind us users of less than optimum tech.

thank you for the interest

Most people with ''less than optimal tech'' confuse cheap tech with old tech and simply outdated tech. The first two are not really an issue, your fps might suffer in most games, but it won't feel like something is broken. The issue kicks in when people expect stuff out of outdated tech, which often times also include hardware which on paper should work but in reality does not support even one 5th of features that are more than common in this generation GPU.

Also, there is no such thing as best of the slowest. These days games will either bottleneck on GPU or CPU, a.k.a. you cannot have one on the high range and the other on low. If your aim is to simply buy hardware simply by looking at raw numbers, you are far better off picking up a console instead if pre-built PC is simply not an option.

wow. cant wait to test this out!

I can't wait for this graphics update!

Nice looking

Global Illumination - GOOD. Point Light Shadows - BAD. the last thing I need is shifting shadows to distract me and make me think there are mobs closing in on me - I'm paranoid enough as it is !

This will give us a slams into the mouth :) That will be really nice effects.
Hope to see this soon.

Edit : don't try to sell us your channeled bow at the same time... didn't work...

Hoooly Path!
that's gonna be G O R G E O U S ♥_♥

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TauOrigin wrote:

Can we turn off this "Illumination and Point Light Shadows"?

I would say it that way:
A) if your machine had turned on shadows it will be able to handle those shadows the same way or even better if I understood it correctly from the OP

B) just like nowadays, there is a setting in the Graphical Options that allows you to set the Shadows level from High to Low or OFF (DX9 only)

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