Killzone 2 only using 60% of SPU's overall power?
- Posted December 5th, 2008 at 06:11 EDT by
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Speaking in IGN's latest Play Beyond podcast, Jeff Haynes revealed that even during the heaviest loads, Killzone 2 utilizes roughly only 60 per cent of the SPU's.
"It's incredible to see huge levels and see the deferred rendering and note that on all the SPU’s, even on the heaviest load were coming up to about 60%," Haynes said. "They weren't coming close to maxing out. .They had about 40% of space before they started tripping or saw slow down on some of the processes."
Furthermore, Haynes noted that the preview codes recently distributed to various media outlets were of an alpha build of the title, and have since been polished up . Visiting Guerilla Games in Amsterdam, Haynes was shown an updated version of the game, mid to late beta, noting that elements such as lighting, cut scenes, glitches, load times, have all been optimized.
Killzone 2 is due out exclusively on PlayStation 3 on February 27, 2009.
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Acid-Hippie2007 |
Acid-Hippie2007- 6:16am GMT - December 5th, 2008
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Wow, I wonder if any other game out right now pushes that higher...
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LegendaryAim |
LegendaryAim- 6:26am GMT - December 5th, 2008
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Great game and please no one reply to SOLWAY
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Mike_Harradence
- 6:59am GMT - December 5th, 2008
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Maybe they are saving space for Killzone 3 improvements. heh
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terminator12259 |
tacitassassin25- 7:14am GMT - December 5th, 2008
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that is amazing, i cant wait for later games that use up 100%, or even closer to 100%
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 7:41am GMT - December 5th, 2008
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Wow, it seems as if numbers like these push 360 fanboys into a delusional frenzy. There is nothing like the smell of fear in the morning.
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lordAlucard |
Sympozium_666- 8:11am GMT - December 5th, 2008
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holy s**t 60% proving once again Playstation 3 is 10x more powerful than the (Cardboard Box) 360
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Acid-Hippie2007 |
Acid-Hippie2007- 8:23am GMT - December 5th, 2008
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The new fps PS3 exlusive "Quantum Theory" by Tecmo is starting to sound and look really good hopefully its up to par with Killzone's impressive screenshots and such.
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crazynoobgamer |
crazynoobgamer- 10:23am GMT - December 5th, 2008
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they should use some more of the ps3 power to get a better framerate
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Kurupt-The-Don
- 11:17am GMT - December 5th, 2008
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well..just wondering...does all the weapons got a alternate fire??humm...if its this good with only 60% imagine god of war with 90 or maybe 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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sTaTIx
- 11:28am GMT - December 5th, 2008
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If I'm not mistaken, Guerilla has stated before that Killzone 2 was only using 4 out of the 7 operational SPUs on the PS3. Which, if true, would mean that the "60% heaviest load" figure mentioned in this article was the worst-case scenario as measured on 1-to-4 SPUs at a time... with 2-3 more free SPUs completely left to spare.
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UpolJoZelda5
- 11:49am GMT - December 5th, 2008
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We've seen the potential of Killzone 2,
now i'm waiting for that gameplay of Final Fantasy XIII & see how its using those 4 SPU's :D
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adeebo |
adeebo22- 1:18pm GMT - December 5th, 2008
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i love my ps3, but seriously i think this guy is exagerating, 60% only?? ithink its more like 70-80%. so this guy is trying to say that the all this great graphics and gameplay is using only half the power of the SPU, mmm yea right.
if what he is saying is true, why Crysis cant run on consoles, hmmm interesting question dont u think?
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Alpha2
- 1:29pm GMT - December 5th, 2008
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Keep in minf the 4 SPU figure was from a while back. There's a high probability that they're using mroe than just 4 now. 60% is a good bit of hardcore processing power assuming it's already well optimized at 60%. I wonder what they need to do to push it to 80?
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VaeVictus
- 1:39pm GMT - December 5th, 2008
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These % used figures are retarded. I could care less. Make the game look good (which they did) and run well (which they seem to be doing) and fun and I'll buy it. I've been looking forward to this game for some time. Too bad I couldn't get into the beta. :sadnana:
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Gomersoul |
Gomersoul- 1:53pm GMT - December 5th, 2008
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i think the reason crysis isn't on consoles is that crytek are either big headed or inexperienced on console development. saying it can't run on consoles is bollox. i bet it can if they had a good ps3 development team on it, they just don't have the knowhow within their company
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Funeralfog |
blksabbath- 1:56pm GMT - December 5th, 2008
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i wonder how much GOW III will use, seriously,. imagine games in 2-3 years if KZ2 looks this incredible
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LiveDigital
- 2:46pm GMT - December 5th, 2008
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glad that i bought a ps3 monster instead of a geeky xbox 360
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edward_moffet |
edd- 3:54pm GMT - December 5th, 2008
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not surprised but still really really impressive just think what ps3 games will look and play like at 80% its almost like every generation of ps3 games we get is another console generation, the leaps between games are that huge
As far as crytek/crysis goes, first of all KZ2 beats crysis i have played the game on high setting and kz2 definitely tops it (crysis is still awesome though) Crytek has already stated that they won't be developing soley on pc anymore because of piracy and ps4 will be their lead platform next generation. It was in an article on here i believe
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deniled
- 4:59pm GMT - December 5th, 2008
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all you gotta see in action is god of war 2 on the ps2, it does take a long time to get the best results. Around 60% they are stating and from what I have seen in videos is amazing. I am looking forward to this title alot, everytime a shooter is released I say to myself oh its just another shooter but this is the shooter of all shooters.
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nosaJ |
nosaJ- 6:24pm GMT - December 5th, 2008
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First off, I'm in the beta the thing that really amazes me is the dl was only 459Mb!!!Now on the other hand, I think that the figures are correct(about the 60% mark)because the dev's are "working out" the programming issues(gettin' smarter?)that they had in the past.Maybe this is the first leap the PS3 is going to take as far as software development goes...
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toasty_T |
toasty_T- 6:58pm GMT - December 5th, 2008
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Good to see the PS3 hasn't hit a wall yet, not that I think it would so early on. I don't think we'll ever see games pushing 100% (frame rate drops and whatnot) it looks like there will be room for improvement in Killzone 3.
2013 here we come =D
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Zadok |
Zadok- 9:03pm GMT - December 5th, 2008
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Well this seems to point to bad system hardware design if they aren't able to max out the SPU's with bottlenecks in the system likely not allowing them to be fully utilised, and still lacking ingame music is a great example of one such bottleneck, that being too little RAM.
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myke6699
- 8:33am GMT - December 6th, 2008
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I hope people misconstur and think this is like CPU usage. I think what it means is that at this point, like in the early days of PS2, dev are now only able to utilise and extract so much of the PS3 full potential. KZ2 is as much a game as it is an R&D project and what GG are able to learn in the process of developing this game, would definitely benefit the other PS3 dev. Once 100% limit is reached, PS4 will probably be just around the corner or like when God of War II was released for PS2, PS3 was already on the market.
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mystik4l06 |
mystikal06- 3:31am GMT - December 7th, 2008
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adeebo....before posting things like that...google it and ull see a interview done with the dev of crysis specifically stating that the only console on the market able to run the game is in fact the PS3...which is why its a possibility which it will be in the works soon for the console... :-)...not trying to $hit on u but its out there
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Mikey320
- 10:31pm GMT - December 8th, 2008
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SOLWAY: YOUR WRONG!!!! i dont know what kind of blog your reading but its wrong like you Killzone 2 is a PS3 exclusive and will not be coming out for the xbox 360 infact that is the one thing sony made sure of so that this could boost the Ps3 up. Infact all of the killzones have been playstation exclusives WHY CHANGE IT NOW, O THATS RIGHT THEIR NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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loverboifreak |
loverboifreak- 12:16pm GMT - December 10th, 2008
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nevermind Solway he's a super fanboy. he/she doesnt know the difference between sony and ms publishers....gtfo
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