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3D-Tech News Around The Web / LuxRender v1.2 final release

« on: February 28, 2013, 05:51:51 PM »

LuxRender v1.2 final release

Here we are again with a new stable release of LuxRender featuring lots of bug fixes. You are strongly advised to upgrade to this 1.2 version due to the huge improvements in the correctness of the renders in this release. See below for the list of improvements.
Many thanks to all the developers involved in this development cycle, this is going to be a strong base to add the next features like full GPU acceleration. If you have questions, do ask them in our forums, and if you find bugs or want to suggest improvements, do so in our bug tracker so that they don't get forgotten..

The splash screen has been changed to the one submitted by Piita for the v1.0 contest, it finished almost at a draw with the winner, congratulations to him.

Packages or installers for most platforms have been made available from our downloads page. Some exporters have been packaged in the installers depending on the platform, otherwise you'll be able to get them from the download page or the repositories.

Changes since v1.2RC1:
- fix a memory leak in the GUI
- fix display of .flm statistics
- fix rendering artefacts when the scene is very small
- fix for incorrect rendering of environment lights with large black areas
- fix for severe regression introduced in bidirectional rendering when optimizing dispersion code
- fix a long standing bug in bidirectional which made renders with bidirectional appear darker than with path
- fix lots of issues with hybrid path rendering, it should now match normal path rendering
- fix wavelength mutation in metropolis
- fix for image filters having a width less than 0.5
- removed the annoying message box when loading a queue file
- fix display of negative numbers in statistics
- lots of fixes for SLG3

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Re: AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 6 for Windows

« on: February 27, 2013, 09:23:47 PM »

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 13.2 BETA 7 DRIVER

    Resolves an intermittent hang seen in Crossfire configurations with the new Crysis 3 patch.

The AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 7 driver can be downloaded from the following link:

AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 7 Driver for Windows® 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista®

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / ZOTAC Releases New FireStorm Overclocking Utility

« on: February 27, 2013, 08:54:19 PM »

Updated ZOTAC FireStorm sports a new user-friendly interface and new overclocking and monitoring features

press release
download

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Fraps 3.5.99 released

« on: February 27, 2013, 08:46:00 PM »

Fraps 3.5.99 - 26th February, 2013

- Fixed counter not appearing in Aero desktop (DWM) and DX10 games after latest Windows Update

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Re: Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 released

« on: February 27, 2013, 01:25:54 AM »

Note that this update also installs Direct3D 11.1 support for Windows 7.

Cool,
here you find details:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2013/02/26/directx-11-1-and-windows-7-update.aspx

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 released

« on: February 26, 2013, 11:49:07 PM »

Internet Explorer 10

You can download Internet Explorer 10 in the language that matches your version of Windows or choose the English version, which works with all versions of Windows 7.

Also Microsoft released a new benchmark "Minesweeper"
Facebook updated Ringmark so it doesn't stop if a ring is incomplete.

Furthermore check out Contre Jour and Cut the Rope

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / (WebGL) Car visualizer

« on: February 26, 2013, 06:26:28 PM »

Car Visualizer

Customize your car, explore it from all the angles, choose the color you want and fit the rims to your design! You can choose from the models we already did or suggest us what you would like to see and we will make it for you! This project is not for commercial purposes.

Source: Taodyne

Graphics work fine on Android, but i can't select anything in the menus.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / 5 Great Games That Will Crush It On Tegra 4

« on: February 26, 2013, 06:05:45 PM »

Tegra 4 kicked off our presence at Mobile World Congress by grabbing headlines and leaping into “hyperspace.” But all the processing capabilities in the world do you no good without a graphically-immersive gaming experience.

Read more...

Zombie Driver and RUGolf are already available for Tegra 3.
Don't forget to read the user reviews before you buy these games 

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / AMD TressFX

« on: February 25, 2013, 06:03:01 PM »

AMD sent out a teaser on Friday about a new Gaming Evolved feature, TressFX. The image, shown below clearly hints at hair and rendering, leading to many to speculate what the correlation is between PPLL (Per Pixel Luscious Locks?) and AMD Radeon graphics.

Read more...

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 6

« on: February 25, 2013, 05:57:51 PM »

MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 5 Download

Guru3D and MSI have been working hard on AfterBurner, today we release an updated Beta  revision of Afterburner, this application successfully secured the leading position on graphics card utilities.

Today we release an updated Beta revision of Afterburner, this application successfully secured the leading position on graphics card utilities. We're happy to see MSI Afterburner is leading the overclock applications. MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 5 is ready, this version supports the control of NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan, if you get the card, you may want to try it.

A changelog will follow soon.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / NVIDIA Tegra 4 Performance Grabs Headlines

« on: February 25, 2013, 04:50:45 PM »

We unveiled additional performance information for our Tegra 4 family on Sunday, the day before Mobile World Congress, and the press has no doubt about it — these chips are quick.

As a company we focus more on real-world usage, and we demonstrated that at CES 2013. This quad core A15 chip, bristling with 72 GPU cores, is fast in real-world applications – as well as synthetic benchmarks. Tegra 4 enables always-on HDR, fast web browsing, and the stunning visuals demonstrated with Project SHIELD.

read more...

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Square Enix Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn benchmark

« on: February 22, 2013, 06:52:33 PM »

Download Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn PC Benchmark. Square Enix has released a benchmark for the PC version of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.

See just how well FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will run on your computer. This official benchmark software uses actual maps and characters to assign a score to your PC and rate its performance.

An AMD APU 450 is insufficient 

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / ASUS GPU tweak 2.3.4.0

« on: February 22, 2013, 06:32:14 PM »

Download here

adds Titan support

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / CAPCOM Resident Evil 6 Benchmark

« on: February 22, 2013, 05:55:43 PM »

Resident Evil 6 Benchmark

Resident Evil 6 a terrific blend of action and horror, which promises to be the most powerful piece in the horror genre in 2013. For pets series Resident Evil Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield and Ada Wong joined by new characters, including Jake Mueller.

Almost 2 fps with APU 450 at lowest setttings 

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / EVGA Precision 4.0 released

« on: February 21, 2013, 08:16:33 PM »

Version 4.0.0

Release: 2/21/13

    Added NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0 technology support for NVIDIA Titan graphics cards:
        Added slider for temperature target adjustment
        Added option for linked power target and temperature target adjustment
        Added option for temperature target prioritizing
        Default EVGA Precision X 3 skin is included as legacy skin for backward compatibility with NVIDIA Kepler graphics cards
    EVGA VoltageTuner has been upgraded to version 3.7 with NVIDIA Titan graphics cards support.
    Added new bundled EVGA PixelClock overclocking utility to distributive
    Now “Sync” button is invisible on single GPU systems
    Now bottom settings panel can be hidden
    Now properties window is resizable to provide compatibility with low-resolution desktops (less than 1280×1024 with 100% DPI)
    Added frametime graph to hardware monitoring module. The graph is displaying the maximum frame time on each sampling period and it is useful for detecting microstutters, which are invisible on averaged framerate graph
    Removed obsolete shader clock monitoring for NVIDIA Kepler graphics cards
    All documentation is now provided in PDF format
    Improved skin engine, now skinned slider controls support curved paths defined by alpha channel. Skin format reference guide has been updated to v1.6 to document new slider types support
    Dynamic SLI indicator is no longer rendered on mobile systems to improve performance on NVIDIA Optimus based laptops
    Updated context help system
    Added Portuguese and Spanish localization
    Updated Russian localization
    EVGA On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 4.5.0. New version gives you the following improvements:
        Added On-Screen Display support for Direct3D 10 applications in Windows 8
        Added German localization
        Updated profiles list

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Unreal Development Kit (UDK) Beta February 2013

« on: February 20, 2013, 09:58:03 PM »

February 2013 UDK Beta Upgrade Notes

Epic Games, Inc. has released the February 2013 Unreal Development Kit (UDK) Beta, the latest version of the free edition of Unreal Engine 3 (UE3) that provides access to the award-winning 3D game engine and professional toolset used in blockbuster video game development, architectural visualization, mobile game development, 3D rendering, digital films and more. The latest UDK beta is available now at http://www.unrealengine.com/udk/downloads/.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Intel - Accessing Microsoft Windows* 8 Desktop Sensors demo

« on: February 20, 2013, 09:22:39 PM »

This sample demonstrates how Windows 8 Desktop applications can use the sensors that are available in Intel® Ultrabook™ PCs and tablets. The sample consists of two projects, the Sensor Manager and Windows Sensors. The Sensor Manager library is an interface to get the required data from the sensors. It was designed to be standalone, and has already been integrated into 3rd party game titles. The Windows Sensors project is a very simple 3D “game” demonstrating how to use the library.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / NVIDIA Quadro/Tesla driver 311.25 beta

« on: February 20, 2013, 08:55:50 PM »

What’s New in Version 311.25
 This driver offers performance improvements over previous driver versions,
including workstation compatibility fixes.
 Performance improvement in SolidWorks 2013.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-tesla-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-311.25-beta-driver.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-tesla-win8-win7-winvista-32bit-311.25-beta-driver.html

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / (WebGL) pixi.js - Another javascript engine, eh?!

« on: February 20, 2013, 08:14:09 PM »

Pixi.js has landed!

The aim of this project is to provide a fast, lightweight 2D library that works across all devices, both mobile and desktop. The pixi renderer allows everyone to enjoy the power of hardware acceleration without prior knowledge of webGL. It’s also fast

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / (WebGL) UNIGINE's Crypt demo is ported into a browser

« on: February 20, 2013, 07:51:19 PM »

UNIGINE's Crypt demo is ported into a browser

You can get a glimpse of UNIGINE's Crypt demo running in a browser just by following a link. In less than one month, Anthony Liot, at ACTISKU, a company that develops world-class 3D marketing solutions using the UNIGINE Engine, single-handedly adopted real-time UNIGINE demo - with all visual effects - to JavaScript/WebGL, proving that such port can be done by an experienced developer with the full source UNIGINE SDK (that comes without WebGL support) on hand. Watch Crypt online (a browser with WebGL support is required).

On Android a Tegra GPU with S3TC is required - Adreno. Mali and PowerVR users are screwed



E/chromium(22637): [ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(5511)] .WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_ENUM : glCompressedTexImage2D: internal_format was GL_COMPRESSED_RGBA_S3TC_DXT1_EXT