It’s on the lips of each PC gaming {hardware} fanatic of late, whether or not it is spat out with vitriol or whispered with a twinge of want: “body technology”. Whether these phrases provide you with shudders of the great or dangerous sort, get used to them as a result of GPUs and video games are leaning ever extra within the path of AI-aided rendering. Case and level: Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which is able to supply a veritable number of body gen and upscaling goodness.
In a current tech Q&A, Pierre F, know-how director of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, defined that the upcoming sport will supply the complete cornucopia of body gen options (minus DLSS 4 Multi Frame Gen, it appears). And greater than this, you’ll combine and match it along with your upscaler of selection for fairly the non-native buffet.
The tech director says: “DLSS 3.7, FSR 3.1 and XeSS 2 are all supported for each upscaling and body technology functions. Our personal Temporal AA resolution can also be accessible. Note {that a} combine and match method is feasible. You could choose one know-how to upscale whereas utilizing a unique know-how for body technology functions.”
Of course, these with an AMD or Intel card will not have the ability to use Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling or body technology, however the capacity to combine and match is perhaps of particular profit to Nvidia RTX 20-series and 30-series avid gamers. It will imply these GPUs will have the ability to use FSR body gen, as an illustration, together with DLSS upscaling.
AMD GPUs would have the ability to use XeSS upscaling alongside FSR body gen, however solely with a model of that upscaling that is inferior to FSR 3.1. And relating to Intel GPUs, effectively, they’re going to in all probability be sticking with XeSS 2 body gen, as even Alchemist playing cards can use it.
Speaking of Intel XeSS 2 body gen, although, is not that considerably of a uncommon gem? To date, we solely have two video games that assist it: F1 24 and Marvel Rivals. Assassin’s Creed Shadows will make a 3rd, and that is due to Ubisoft’s partnership with Intel for this sport.
Pierre F explains: “As a part of our partnership with Intel, we had direct and privileged entry to XeSS 2 earlier than it was made public, and we labored immediately with Intel engineers to offer one of the best implementation potential.” It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how the blue workforce’s body gen performs out in additional video games towards the titans of FSR and particularly DLSS.
We should not have lengthy to attend to search out out. Assassin’s Creed Shadows—after a disappointing delay—is about to launch on March 20, 2025. This subsequent iteration within the sequence is promising dual-protagonist gameplay to fulfill each stealthers and hack-n-slashers alike—a lot for body gen and upscaling to take care of.
