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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Intel "Becoming More Godlike: How Demigod Appeased the Masses"

« on: August 22, 2009, 03:17:05 AM »

Millions of potential gamers are running their systems on Intel® Graphics chipsets, and the projected numbers are steadily increasing. To better reach this ginormous audience segment, game developers are tuning their games for integrated graphics. Gas Powered Games is one of those developers. Read how they worked with Intel - and used Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers - to turn the dials on Demigod and achieve optimum play performance on Intel Graphics chipsets.

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2042

3D-Tech News Around The Web / Neutron 3D engine - PhysX fully integrated

« on: August 22, 2009, 03:12:10 AM »

After a while we are back with some exciting news. NVidia’s PhysX is fully integrated in Neutron engine with all it’s features! The following video shows some of those features in action (static/dynamic bodies, tearable cloth, soft bodies and joints). All other features (wheels, ragdolls etc) can be easily integrated down the line as needed. As usual all HD videos are at http://www.youtube.com/neutronengine

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Intel Clarkdale GPU inside benchmarked

« on: August 20, 2009, 09:25:14 PM »

HKEPC took a first look.
The comments are in chinese, but the charts and pix speak for themselves.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Gaming Performance Compared: Windows 7 vs Vista vs Windows XP

« on: August 20, 2009, 09:21:41 PM »

While there were a couple of cases where WinXP outran Windows 7 and Vista, for the most part Windows 7 wins more than it loses, especially when you factor in multi-GPU technologies like SLI and CrossFire. In fact, if you’re a Windows XP gamer with SLI or CrossFire, I’d definitely urge you to upgrade to Windows 7 as soon as possible.

Read full story at FiringSquad.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / PC Wizard 2009 1.90 available

« on: August 20, 2009, 08:57:07 PM »

PC Wizard - History Notes
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Laurent KUTIL & Franck DELATTRE
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2009.1.90
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- Dell Optiflex 755 sensor support
- Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 detection support
- AMD Sempron 2xxU ASB1 Family processors support
- Fintek F71889FG hardware sensor preliminary support
- nVidia nForce 980 chipset support
- Intel Havendale/Clarkdale chipset preliminary support
- Asus M3N78-VM mainboard support
- Intel Core i7 Lynnfield 760S processor support
- Intel Core i5 Lynnfield 750S processor support
- Intel SCH Memory Timings support
- Add x86-64 benchmarks
- SMART improvments to support newer USB Disk controllers
- Hard Disk USB controllers manufacturer name support
- hard Disk PowerOnCount and PowerOnHours support
- nVidia video card memory type report improvments
- SLIC Motherboard support
- Hard Disk Transport version support
- ACPI v4.0 support
- Nuvoton W83795G/ADG sensor preliminary support
- AMD Socket AM3 socket detection improvment
- Windows MSI Installer version detection
- Intel Pentium E6500K processor support
- Microsoft patches installed enumeration
- Add F3 key to seach if a patch or hotfix has been installed.
  (Just type the Microsoft KB reference)
- Processor stability test improvment
- Add new PCI Table to get most recent devices name
- Add an USB Table to get vendor et product name
- ATA/SATA Information on x64 OS support
- SMART Information on x64 OS support
- Hard disk temperature on x64 OS support
- Windows Vista and Windows Seven License information support
- Benchmark correction error with some configuration
- Microsoft Surface detection support

Note:
Put a copy of cudart.dll v2.2/2.3 into program folder for CUDA analysis.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / ATI Catalyst 9.8 Hotfix for 3D Games available

« on: August 20, 2009, 04:49:33 PM »

This articles provides a hotfix solution for game applications, (Resident Evil 5, Company of Heroes, Ghostbusters & Sims 3) that experience graphics corruption during game play.

It also provides a resolution to intermittent crashes that may occur when graphics settings are set to Ultra while playing a skirmish game versus the computer in the “Angonville map”.

Symptoms:

The following errors may occur during game play of the above mentioned games:

o   No Anti-Aliasing support for Ghostbusters

o   Graphics corruption when playing Sims 3

o   No support for CrossfireX when playing Resident Evil 5.

Download from ATI.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / CBS to run video ad in print magazine "Entertainment Weekly"

« on: August 20, 2009, 02:27:53 PM »

"American Broadcast network CBS will be advertising its fall TV season with a video-chip ad embedded in an issue of Entertainment Weekly.

The September 18 issue of the Time Inc.-owned magazine will feature the first video ad to appear in print, George Schweitzer, CBS marketing president, said Wednesday at a press conference at the company's headquarters here. The ad will be launched in partnership with PepsiCo to promote Pepsi Max soda and the TV network's Monday prime-time lineup. Not everyone will be seeing it: the ad will appear in a magazine insert sent to subscribers in the New York and Los Angeles areas--an edition without the video chip will be sent to subscribers elsewhere and show up on newsstands."

Read full story at CNET.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / New "PhysX on vs. PhysX off" videos

« on: August 19, 2009, 07:49:57 AM »

NVIDIA uploaded new comparison videos from Cryostasis and Darkest of Days.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / gamescom 2009 - trailer roundup

« on: August 19, 2009, 07:36:02 AM »

Eye of Judgement (PSP), LocoRoco (PSP), PixelJunk Monsters (PSP), Dead Nation (PS3), Heavy Rain (PS3), Age of Conan - AddOn (PC), White Knight Chronicles (PS3), Dante´s Inferno (PS3, Xbox 360, PSP), Little Big Planet (PS3, PSP), Fairytale Fights (PS3, PC, X360), Brütal Legend (PS3, Xbox 360), Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC), Mass Effect 2 (PC, X360)

Videos updated daily at DemoNews.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / SiSoftware Sandra 2009 SP4 available

« on: August 18, 2009, 09:26:45 PM »

Key features

•4 architectures natively supported (x86, x64/AMD64/EM64T, IA64/Itanium2, ARM)
•6 languages supported (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian)
•AMD STREAM 1.4 (Sandra 2009 SP3)
•nVidia CUDA 2.2 (Sandra 2009 SP3)
•OpenCL 1.0 (Sandra 2009 SP4)
•Multi-GPGPUs supported, up to 8 in parallel.
•Different models of GPGPUs supported or integrated GPU + dedicated GPGPU supported working together in Sandra 2009 SP3.

Get free lite version from SiSoft. Links to SP4 infos appear to be dead atm 

2051

3D-Tech News Around The Web / GDC Europe: Everything in one place

« on: August 18, 2009, 06:28:14 PM »

GDC Europe 2009 is continuing to show exactly why it is Europe’s biggest developer conference, and Develop is covering the show from the inside-out.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / GDC Europe: Crytek's Yerli On The Future Of Gaming Graphics

« on: August 18, 2009, 06:14:14 PM »

The company's in-house flagship title using CryEngine 3 is Crysis 2. The game is using "heavily improved Crysis technology" that is moving towards better implementation on consoles, Yerli said. He showed a PC demo of CryEngine 3 featuring both boat combat and on-land gameplay using enhanced Crysis assets, with 3D volumetric clouds, HDR sky, voxel-based terrain, and a 7km view distance on the ocean.

Read full story at Gamasutra.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / OpenGL Extension Viewer 3.14 available

« on: August 17, 2009, 07:29:43 PM »

3.14     OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL 3.2 detections. OpenGL 3.0 rendering test (Forward Context). Updated database with fixes. Updated Core Features Set for version 3.1 to 3.2.

Get it from realtech VR.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / CPUID TMonitor 1.01 beta available

« on: August 16, 2009, 02:44:53 PM »

TMonitor 1.01 beta is available. The first version of new tool, that is aimed to display the active clock of each individual thread of a processor, does only work on Intel Core 2 and Core i3/i5/i7 processors for the moment.

    * Download TMonitor 1.01 beta version.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / AccelerEyes Updates GPU Engine for MATLAB

« on: August 15, 2009, 05:59:24 AM »

Jacket 1.1.1 includes double-precision support for FFT functions

Read full story at DDJ.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / AMD demos DX11 hardware at QuakeCon 2009

« on: August 14, 2009, 09:31:58 PM »

This DX11 hardware is the first GPU to support the technology and should be able in late fall or early winter.

Read full story at PCPER.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / ATI Catalyst 9.8 available

« on: August 14, 2009, 09:13:04 PM »

Download via AMD's Quakecon report
Version 6.14.10.685, 15.07.2009
No changelog available, therefore check the list of optimized games & applications.
CompatAFR-1x1.exe seems to be a new generic optimisation?

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / GLGX v0.24 An OpenGL Utility Library

« on: August 14, 2009, 02:30:08 PM »

This library is an utility library for OpenGL applications like D3DX for DirectX. It includes mathematic classes and functions (projection and view matrices creation)(vectors, matrices, quaternions, ...), functions for textures loading, GLSL shaders loading, frustum computation, ...

Get it from Texel3D.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / LAPACK on CUDA beta available for free

« on: August 14, 2009, 02:15:06 PM »

The technology proposition is fairly straightforward: take the LAPACK interface, implement the functions under the interface to take advantage of NVIDIA’s GPUs, and hide as much as possible of the nastiness of CUDA programming (allocations, workspace creations, and memory transfers are all taken care of under the hood) from the developer using the library while still getting the benefit of GPU speedup.

Read full story at InsideHPC.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / CUDA real time ray tracing tutorial

« on: August 14, 2009, 09:49:48 AM »

This tutorial will focus on the CUDA stuff like how do you upload some triangles to your graphics card and how to implement a very simple ray tracing algorithm that runs on the GPU. It will be assumed you know Open GL, and some theory about ray tracing.

Read full story at Alexandra Institute.