Archive for September, 2008

Redsdk 1.5 Programming Toolkit Available

NVIDIA ForceWare 177.98

A new set of ForceWare graphics drivers for all GeForce graphics cards is available. From this thread these drivers are WHQL but NVIDIA does not officially support them.

• ForceWare 177.98 XP 32
• ForceWare 177.98 Vista 32
• ForceWare 177.98 XP 64

OpenGL 3 And DirectX 11: API War will Not Take Place

John Carmack Interview About Quake Live

ComputerAndVideoGames.com has published an interview of John Carmack about Quake Live. Quake Live is the online version of Quake 3 Arena and allows to quickly set up and play Quake 3 without the pain of downloading Q3A and the latest patches, connecting to servers and find other gamers.

Read the complete interview here: On how Quake Live brings brawling to our browsers

Q: So is Quake Live the next step for PC gaming?
A: I don’t think this is the future of PC gaming, though it’s certainly an aspect of it. PC developers need to start considering the PC as a unique platform rather than a gaming machine that happens to be in your den rather than your living room.
The traditional big-budget, media-rich, single-player type games like we used to make at id Software through to Doom 3, all that really has to be done cross-platform on the consoles now, to basically cover the development expenses for something like that. But the PC still has huge success stories, with things like The Sims 2 and World of Warcraft, which have been bigger successes than any console game has ever been, or possibly ever could be in the near future. At the end of the day, you have to look at the PC as a platform with its own strengths and weaknesses.

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Unigine Tropic Tech Demo and Benchmark in OpenGL and Direct3D

Gainward Radeon HD 4870 Sexy Propaganda

We need more propaganda like this:

Related links:

• How To Boost Graphics Cards Promotion

ATI + NVIDIA = Graphics + PhysX

Now that PhysX is accelerated by GeForce 8+ GPUs, some websites try to realize the dream for many users: a GeForce accelerating PhysX for Radeon. This time, the guys at Speedtime.cn have coupled a Radeon HD 4870 for the graphics and a GeForce 9800 GTX for PhysX. NVIDIA PowerPack as well as oZone3D.Net PhysX FluidMark have been used for this benchmark.

• NVIDIA+ATI PhysX – original post @ speedtime.cn
• Hybrid (1): NVIDIA+ATI build PhysX hybrid power @ en.hardspell.com
• Hybrid (2): NVIDIA+ATI build PhysX hybrid power @ en.hardspell.com

GeForce 9800 GT Video Card Roundup (EVGA, Gigabyte, ASUS and Palit)

Want a bunch of GeForce 9800 GT reviewed in the same time? Hardware Canucks did it!

The 9800 era is finally fully upon us with the release of the 9800 GT. Since this card was silently launched some time ago, we figured we would give you a good old-fashioned roundup to put it into perspective for you. We amassed a collection of cards from the likes of EVGA, ASUS, Gigabyte and Palit and put them through their paces.

Read the complete review here: GeForce 9800 GT Video Card Roundup (EVGA, Gigabyte, ASUS and Palit)

WolfKing Timber Wolf Gaming Keyboard Review

Patch Tesselation Demo: How to Render Million-Triangles Meshes

Sergey Brin on Why Google’s Launching a Browser

Sergey Brin at a press conference at the Googleplex (Sept 2, 2008) talking about why Google is launching its Chrome browser…

Elemental Engine II

Shattered Horizon Video: Moon is really shattered!

Google Chrome: New Internet Browser

Google has launched its own internet browser called Chrome.

You can download it here: Chrome @ Google.

From the first feedbacks, Chrome seems to be very fast, faster than FireFox 3.0. The interface is very neat, almot pure. But the EULA (end user licence agreement) seems to hide some bad things…

Here is the Google Chrome announcement video:

• rendering engine (based on Apple Safari)
• multi-processes technology: each tab runs in its own process: that makes the browser more stable
• new and fast Javascript engine called V8

Here is a video from the development team:

Related links:

• Chrome features @ Google (english)
• Chrome features @ Google (french)
• Why Chrome is a fantastic browser @ TG Daily
• Google Chrome @ GeeksAreSexy
• Chrome’s end-user license agreement @ slashdot

RivaTuner 2.10

The new version of RivaTuner is available. RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA and ATI GPU based display adapters.

More information here: RivaTuner @ Guru3D.
Download page: RivaTuner 2.10 Download.