Xbox one demo running..... Nvidia?

[Ace123]

These two pictures are very incriminating. According to the article mircrosoft claims the demos were being ran on "comparable" hard ware to the Xbox one.. But does that comparable spec include a 700 series GTX graphics card from Nvidia? Not to mention Microsoft Opted to use windows 7 during E3 as opposed to their own windows 8 which is what the Xbox OS is built off of?

well here you decide.
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Xbo...rds-56737.html

[Buckeye]

Microsoft FAIL, your drunk, go home now !

[Dami3n]

Hail to the new XBOX NONE

[Iconyu]

If you're using a new engine, it can take time to get it running at full speed on the intended hardware. PC's are pretty brute force so running an alpha on a high spec PC will probably give a better impression than on a dev kit, without the cloud compute running. But even so it doesn't look good.

[[XC] Lead Head]

The Xbox 360 E3 demo units were PowerMac G5s. Not really unexpected, especially if the real hardware isn't ready yet.

[Ace123]

Kinda sad microsoft using competitors product to demo theirs

[PedantOne]

funny and sad ...

[Tim]

Disgusting if you ask me.

[Rollo]

WTH?! Why weren't they using "the new king- the world's fastest, most advanced graphics card"?

http://www.amd.com/US/PRODUCTS/DESKT...deon-7990.aspx

I'd think they would want to use the "uncompromising masterpiece of breathtaking performance" their partner AMD is making, not a GTX780.

More seriously, I get the whole "Windows has more overhead, need a higher end chip to run the games in it" issue, and you'd want the highest end single GPU to run the most "console like".

IMO, this isn't a big deal.

[Chickenfeed]

This is just a lazy way to showcase something with minimal effort. Many of the launch titles still need their share of optimizations and the results current dev kits can provide would likely have not been so impressive. If you take a title roughly targeted at the dev kits performance budget and throw a high spec PC at it, you'll be able to brute force things and display a game under ideal circumstances aka not the actual console.

More than anything this shows a lack of preparedness on MS's part. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

[Chrono Detector]

So Microsoft blatantly lied to everyone and in fact was using a high end PC, passing it off as an Xbox One, not to mention that PC was running Windows 7 instead of Windows 8 shows how much Microsoft can't even trust their own latest operating system and not to mention they were exposed too.... too funny really.

[informal]

More worrying is the fact MS didn't have consoles (even ES) running any games... If you want a product demo you would need a product to make such a demo. No product= smoke and mirrors IMO.

[fiskov]

So why does the PC never get these "good" games?

[c22]

One of the users on polish site digged in it a lil bit more...

[Evantaur]

One of the users on polish site digged in it a lil bit more...

so intel AND nvidia

[Andrew LB]

The Xbox 360 E3 demo units were PowerMac G5s. Not really unexpected, especially if the real hardware isn't ready yet.

They sure did! My curiosity got the better of me back at E4 2005 and I decided to snoop around in areas off-limits to non-microsoft staff. Everything was great until I busted out my Canon SLR to snap this shot! As you can imagine the MS guys were not pleased with my discovery.

More worrying is the fact MS didn't have consoles (even ES) running any games... If you want a product demo you would need a product to make such a demo. No product= smoke and mirrors IMO.

Why? They didn't have the 360 running its own hardware at E3 in 2005 and they not only made the release deadline, they had lots of product available.

I'm sure Microsoft will be on time as usual.

[Rollo]

You'd think they'd want a FX CPU and a 7970 for this. Then they could at least say they needed products higher up in the product lines they had chosen to run in Windows.

This way it looks like they picked the second best company to sell, and the best companies to demo. Not a good day for AMD, or MS.

I'll still buy my son both a PS4 and Xbox, but for the people that buy one only, this can't look good. The tech world jumps on stuff like this like rabid wolverines too. Will probably be on the news next week.

[Hornet331]

As andrew said, its nothing special, nearly all games that are showcased are either prerendered or run of none console hardware (aka pc) and even for PC titles you can't be sure of that what you see at E3 will look like the actual game, since they make special levels, add better textures (which are not in the game at launch) etc.

[Andi64]

As andrew said, its nothing special, nearly all games that are showcased are either prerendered or run of none console hardware (aka pc) and even for PC titles you can't be sure of that what you see at E3 will look like the actual game, since they make special levels, add better textures (which are not in the game at launch) etc.

But they were running on console compatible hardware :P an x86 CPU and a DirectX GPU.
Sure, they should have done this with Windows 8, an AMD FX CPU, and a HD7970. But even with a config like that we would have been complaining about something else...

[PedantOne]

so intel AND nvidia

it was in source news, Intel cpu + GeForce GTX 780, dont need this digging ...

[tajoh111]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...go-devkit-leak

Basically the development kits had Nvidia hardware too. Maybe the driver support and tools makes it easier to program and run games well on Nvidia hardware.

Really these should be running AMD hardware at this point. Doesn't make sense to use Nvidia hardware.

[zalbard]

I find this hilarious after all the claims that having AMD inside consoles will make the devs fully optimise for AMD arch.

[R101]

I am just interested if 'xbox cloud virtual machines' will run on Intel or AMD servers.. If they run on Intel, then Intel made better deal and sold server CPUs instead of low margin AMD unit that goes into console..

[Rollo]

I find this hilarious after all the claims that having AMD inside consoles will make the devs fully optimise for AMD arch.

I find it ironic after all the "AMD is in all three consoles! NVIDIA is doomxorz!" posts.

Looks like there may be more substance to NVIDIA's story they didn't want this business than many believed. Looks like when MS wants to show off, they turn to the market leaders.

[informal]

Or they don't have ready consoles that can run those games without crashing. Heck, even that "PC" crashed running the game, that's how the guy saw it was a "fake" console. If it haven't crashed we would never have discovered this lol.