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Archive for October, 2008

HIS Radeon HD 4830 Review

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/10/23 at 09:06

Categories: Graphics Cards Tags: graphics card, his, radeon hd 4830, review, rv770le

Deferred Shading Demo with Direct3D 10.1

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/10/22 at 18:35

Categories: Game Development, Microsoft DirectX Tags: deferred shading, direct3d 10.1, game development, Programming

Deferred Shading Demo with Direct3D 10.1

Far Cry 2 Graphics Card Performance Test

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - at 10:24

Categories: Graphics Cards, Video Games Tags: far cry 2, geforce 9800 gx2, geforce gtx 260, geforce gtx 280, graphics card, performance test, radeon hd 4870 x2, video game

Far Cry 2 VGA Test

Pictomio Uses the GPU to Play With Your Images

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - at 10:21

Categories: 3D Tags: direct3d 9, geforce, graphics card, image viewer, pictomio, radeon, software

Pictomio image viewer

NVIDIA ForceWare 180.42 Add 8 New OpenGL Extensions

3 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/10/21 at 17:20

Categories: Forceware, Game Development, OpenGL Tags: forceware 180.42, game development, geforce gtx 280, GL_EXT_direct_state_access, graphics driver, NVIDIA, opengl, opengl 3.0, opengl extension, Programming, WGL_ARB_create_context

Here is the list of OpenGL extensions supported by Forceware 180.42 WinXP 32 drivers for a GeForce GTX 280.

NVIDIA Releases ForceWare 180.42 BETA for Far Cry 2

1 comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - at 16:46

Categories: Forceware Tags: far cry 2, Forceware, forceware 180.42, graphics driver, NVIDIA, physx, physx 8.10.13

NVIDIA has released a new set of graphics drivers for GeForce 200-series, 9-series and 8800-series desktop graphics cards for the video game Far Cry 2.

NVIDIA ForceWare logo

ForceWare 180.42 with GPU Caps Viewer

Catalyst Hotfix for Far Cry 2

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - at 14:21

Categories: Catalyst Tags: catalyst, far cry 2, graphics card, graphics driver, hotfix, radeon

Far Cry 2 will be available very soon (today…) and ATI has released a hotfix for the latest Catalyst 8.10. This hotfix improves performance of Crossfire systems (Direct3D 9) or single and Crossfire systems (Direct3D 10).

The hotfix is available here: Far Cry 2 HotFix

Catalyst graphics driver logo

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Force3D Radeon HD 4870 Direct Touch Heatpipe Graphics Card

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/10/20 at 12:52

Categories: Graphics Cards Tags: cooler, dht, direct touch heatpipes, Force3D, gpu, graphics card, radeon hd 4870, rv770

Force3D Radeon HD 4870 DHT

GPU Caps Viewer 1.6.0 Available

1 comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - at 10:59

Categories: GPU Tools Tags: geforce, gpu caps viewer, gpu temperature, graphics card, graphics driver, opengl, physx, radeon, utility

GPU Caps Viewer logo

S3 Graphics S3FotoPro Quick Review

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - at 09:52

Categories: 3D, Test Tags: chrome 430 gt, gpgpu, image manipulation, image processing, review, S3 Graphics, S3FotoPro, software

S3FotoPro is a GPGPU (General Purpose GPU) acccelerated utility for image processing. S3FotoPro requires Windows XP SP2/3 or Vista SP1 and a Chrome-based S3 graphics card. Geeks3D has such a graphics card (a S3 Chrome 430 GT) so let’s play a little bit with this software.