Max Payne 3 Will Push PC ''To Its Limits'', Says Rockstar

[News Portal]

Rockstar's 35GB required hard drive space raised a few eyebrows when it was first announced, and now that we're approaching the PC launch date, they're hitting the streets to explain why. "A good portion of the extra space requirements on PC can be attributed to the increased size of the textures, which are four times the size of those on consoles," said lead PC designer Kevin Hoare. "In addition, the audio quality is significantly higher than the consoles due to lower compression rates, which improves audio fidelity."

"We're also supporting DX11 with Max Payne 3, with features including Hull/Tessellation/Domain Shaders (which adds curvature to the character/vehicle models), Gather4 (for optimized shadow sampling / FXAA), Geometry shader / Stream Output and DX11 texture samplers to name a few," he added, presumably proudly. Read all about it at PC World.

Source: PC World

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[StyleZ]

Hopefully this will give my 680 a work out

[realOne]

Thus making this version the best visually to an already highly rated game. Looking forward to playing it on pc this weekend.

Sent from my HTC One X

[killum101]

I have read a lot about how good the graphics and the optimization are, but I have not read any thing about the controls.
Playing Rockstars last few PC games it does not look good. The end of the PC World interview was not all that informative.

[xanarax]

Challenge accepted.

I'm going to need to sound proof my case by the looks of it, 6990 + 6970 are noisy sobs.

Edit: I love your games Rockstar, I really do. But please please please, bring Red Dead to the PC with the same obvious love and care. I can't stand playing my consoles, I've been spoilt by the siren that is 2560x1440 screen resolution.

[Scared]

GTA4 pushed the PC 'to it's limits'...but not visually.

I have more faith in this being a good port though.

[InAUGral]

As soon as I saw the 35GB HDD space requirements I knew that the textures would be heaps better and the audio too. I would wait for this to come out on PC and find out from people whether it has problems in DX11 before I even consider getting it (long gone are the days I preorder a game that looks good). Having far better graphics doesn't automatically mean the rest of it isn't a bad port.

[Yapa]

GTA4 pushed the PC 'to it's limits'...but not visually.

I have more faith in this being a good port though.

+1 .... this is what I was going to say.

A bad port from console to PC can push a PC to its limits because its a bad port/ poorly optimised.

A good engine pushes the PC to the limits because it looks, sounds and plays better than most ports out there, and example would be BF3... this pushes your CPU, GPU and Memory... and looks great.

Lets hope this is the case here too.

[spitfires_son]

I'm really looking forward to this.

Unfortunately Steam is telling me now it's out for us on the 6th of June. It also requires steam right? If it ends up being released in brick and mortar stores on the 1st it won't matter because we can't install it through steam until the 6th.

Wait and see I suppose.

[PalZer0]

No question about the DRM used?

PC World, I am disappoint.

[Otto-matic]

It uses Gameshield Ironwrap apparently. Never heard of it but hoping it won't brick too many PCs.

Edit: and Steamworks obviously for the Steam version.

[wazzuppi]

Cant you guys see??

they are pulling this 35 gig card so no one bothers to pirate this game. Its obvious

I doubt rockstar would bother putting 35g of content in a game. More like sloppy coding

[Ash_Williams]

You put high resolution textures into a package and see how that works out.

35GB for a game of this size and quality is normal, you ask for a PROPER PC game and not a port so what do you expect to get?

[IanHead]

^ It has nothing to do with coding. Most games compress the **** out of their textures so that they'll fit on an HDDVD or BD. Leaving textures uncompressed is like FLAC is to MP3s - there is a noticeable increase in quality when there's less compression though the size and performance trade-off is severe and many people will not even care about/realise the difference.

That said, I'm hoping GON's Steam servers will have this on release so we're not all insta-blowing our quotas?

[DeathMist]

Cant you guys see??

they are pulling this 35 gig card so no one bothers to pirate this game. Its obvious

I doubt rockstar would bother putting 35g of content in a game. More like sloppy coding

Do you even know how much text is required for 35gb? an unfathomable amount.

As they said, its most likely texture size.

Also, 35gb won't stop pirates by a long shot. (Rips, Full-Rips, Good compression, take out the stupid size of the textures)

Side note.. I don't really think increasing texture size to the point of making the game 35 gb will do much... (See Crysis, shattered horizon, etc. They all look beautiful and yet the file size is tiny in comparison)