NVIDIA Forced Ambient Occlusion?

[Ignotium]

Right, so I was just reading this article about the GTX275, and I saw that now they (the cards) have a technology that ...

Ambient Occlusion
Ambient Occlusion is an exciting new technology specific to Nvidia GPU's, it inserts shadows into games on a driver level and adds some really nice eye candy to gaming

Currently only 22 games support it, and listed was no less that UT3

And no, this thread has nothing to do with Kazeo's AO, which imo is awesome

EDIT:
omg chubby fingers typo ftl
admin please fix!

 

[evilmrfrank]

Sounds cool

 

[Kaleena]

Works on 8800 cards too but I heard the performance hit is massive and it's not compatible with anti aliasing either. I haven't bothered trying it for now, I just know a friend of mine said it works great on Half Life 2 and other source engine games ;o

 

[Fuzz]

How about some UT3 screenshots with and without?

 

[TurdDrive]

good idea

 

[Ignotium]

How about some UT3 screenshots with and without?

That's exactly what I want to see

 

[toniglandyl]

I didn't notice any difference when I tried it, TBH.

 

[213]

I'm on an old 8800GT, so um, where would I find this setting?

I only ask cause my shadowing in UT3 seems really heavy-handed, and I've no other way to describe it than "chalky".

 

[Kyllian]

That reminds me, need to install the newest drivers

 

[doogle]

Looks like this is another Vista/Windows 7 thing as I'm on XP and don't have the option to enable it
Looking on the Nvidia website, the Ambient Occlusion bit is mentioned in the Vista driver but not the XP one

 

[Ignotium]

Looks like this is another Vista/Windows 7 thing as I'm on XP and don't have the option to enable it
Looking on the Nvidia website, the Ambient Occlusion bit is mentioned in the Vista driver but not the XP one

is time to move on though

 

[Fuzz]

No screenshot, no read.

 

[Ignotium]

 

[doogle]

World in Conflict

Half-Life 2

No screenies from UT3 that I've found yet.

 

[Kantham]

Not bad, but that's for now, I'm pretty damn sure most of the games/engines will have this feature built-in in the near future.

 

[Fuzz]

That is great. Especially the shadows in HL2.

 

[Rask]

I see no option for AO in my nVidia panel... Is it XP related?

 

[Nereid]

Rask, you need to have the 185 drivers for it to show up.

I expected screenshots in this thread.

Maybe I'll take some later.

 

[Rask]

Rask, you need to have the 185 drivers for it to show up.

Yeah, I asked after installing 185.85 drivers.

Otherwise haven't noticed any difference in UT3...

 

[keaukrine]

Did anybody try this on UT99 ot UT2004?