6/29/07
| Optimizing 3D Apps - 6/29/07 @ 12:38 pm - By: MikeC - Source: Browsing |
The NVIDIA Developer blog has an interesting post on some of the things that go on while optimizing a 3D game or application. FPS Creator X10, which will allow users to create their own First Person Shooter games, was the subject of this exercize.
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| Roy Taylor Interview - 6/27/07 @ 8:13 pm - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
Bit-Tech has published an interview with NVIDIA's Roy Taylor. An intersting read and a variety of topics were discussed including The Way It's Meant To Be Played program, developer relations, Windows Vista, and DirectX 10.
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| Tuesday's News - 6/26/07 @ 9:39 am - By: MikeC - Source: |
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| XFX XXX Ultra Review - 6/21/07 @ 6:18 pm - By: MikeC - Source: N/A | ||
Not happy with the 3D performance of your high-end PC? Need a graphics card capable of driving your new 30-inch LCD, which boasts a native resolution of 2560x1600? Then look no further than the GeForce 8800 Ultra XXX Edition from XFX.
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| Telsa GPU Computing Processor - 6/21/07 @ 8:13 am - By: MikeC - Source: |
| NVIDIA Tesla GPU Computing Processor Ushers in the Era of Personal Supercomputing. SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 20 High-performance computing in fields like the geosciences, molecular biology, and medical diagnostics enable discoveries that transform billions of lives every day. Universities, research institutions, and companies in these and other fields face a daunting challenge: as their simulation models become exponentially complex, so does their need for vast computational resources. NVIDIA took a giant step in meeting this challenge with today's announcement of a new class of processors based on a revolutionary new graphics processing unit (GPU). Under the NVIDIA Tesla brand, NVIDIA will offer a family of GPU computing products that will place the power previously available only from supercomputers in the hands of every scientist and engineer. Today's workstations will be transformed into "personal supercomputers." |
| DX10 Report Card - 6/18/07 @ 3:09 pm - By: MikeC - Source: Browsing |
| ExtremeTech has posted a couple of articles on DirectX 10, which is Microsoft's game development Applications Programming Interface (API) exclusive to Windows Vista. The first article is a brief report card by Loyd Case, who gives "DirectX 10 in combination with the new generation of DirectX 10 hardware a C-. The job gets done, but it's not pretty, elegant, nor particularly inspiring." The article also features comments from NVIDIA's Nick Stam (Technical Marketing) concerning the new Call of Juarez benchmark. The second article covers the DirectX 10 features in Call of Juarez and measures performance on various NVIDIA and ATI-based graphics cards. |
| Monday's Roundup - 6/18/07 @ 8:38 am - By: MikeC - Source: |
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| XFX GeForce 8500 GT - 6/17/07 @ 8:14 pm - By: MikeC - Source: N/A |
| For the casual gamer, the XFX GeForce 8500 GT may fit the bill with its sub-$100 price tag. Although today is Father's Day, Jonathan Martini recently picked out the card for his mother's system, which is powered by a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 "Prescott" CPU. Based on the benchmark results, game performance appears to be optimal at a resolution of 1024x768 with the possibility of applying 2x antialiasing depending on the title.
Check it out here! |
| Quake Wars News - 6/17/07 @ 7:36 am - By: MikeC - Source: Forums |
| With the public beta of Enemy Territory Quake Wars due out this week, the folks over at fpsadmin have posted the readme and game guide for the online strategic shooter. The game will run on Windows XP and Windows Vista and requires a 128MB GeForce 6600GT or Radeon X800 or higher graphics card. A 256MB GeForce 6800 GT or Radeon X850 are recommeded.
Believe it or not, but you can pick up a GeForce 6600 GT at Tiger Direct for only $29.97 (with a $40 mail in rebate until 6/30). This would be an ideal time to add that second GeForce 6600 GT to form an SLI configuration or even upgrade to a GPU that supports a 256-mit memory bus such as the GeForce 7900 GS (~$150). Don't forget that you can still play the original version of Enemy Territory for free! |
| DirectX 10 GPU for Notebooks - 6/13/07 @ 9:51 am - By: MikeC - Source: |
| New NVIDIA GPU Brings DirectX 10 and HD Video Capabilities to High-Performance and Gaming Notebooks. SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 12, 2007 NVIDIA Corporation today announced the GeForce 8700M GT graphics processing unit (GPU) for notebook PCs, a new high-end GPU designed for the most demanding notebook users. The GeForce 8700M GT GPU extends the award-winning GeForce 8M Series product line to include high-performance notebooks, continuing five generations of leadership for the highest performance notebooks on the market. The GeForce 8700M GT GPU, the newest and fastest GPU in the GeForce 8M series of notebook graphics processors, raises the bar for DirectX 10 graphics and video performance. As with the entire GeForce 8M Series notebook GPU lineup, the GeForce 8700M GT delivers great DirectX 10 gaming performance, stunning Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) graphics, and stellar HD DVD and Blu-ray video playback. These features continue to make NVIDIA GPUs the most popular discrete notebook graphics solutions on the market. |
| Still not back into the swing of things - 6/12/07 @ 12:05 pm - By: MikeC - Source: |
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| Back From Vacation Roundup - 6/11/07 @ 2:23 pm - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
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| Inno3D iChill 8600GTS XStriker3 - 6/05/07 @ 10:13 pm - By: MikeC - Source: |
| Steve Angelly takes a look at Inno3d's iChill 8600GTS XStriker.
Check the review out here! |
| Sarkkinen Named CEO - 6/05/07 @ 7:45 pm - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
| Congratulations to Tero Sarkkinen who has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of FutureMark. Tero was formerly Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for FutureMark - a leading provider of PC and mobile phone performance analysis software.
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| SPECViewperf 10 - 6/05/07 @ 3:11 pm - By: MikeC - Source: Browsing |
| The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has released SPECViewperf 10. SPECViewperf is an OpenGL benchmark that is suited to measure the performance of professional workstations.
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| Weekend Roundup - 6/03/07 @ 10:07 am - By: MikeC - Source: |
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| Contest Winners - 6/01/07 @ 4:13 pm - By: MikeC - Source: N/A |
| The winners of the Super Talent Memory Contest are: 1) Stoney Frederick Congratulations to the lucky winners! Thanks to Amy Deng and Super Talent for sponsoring this great contest! |
| CoH DirectX10 Patch - 6/01/07 @ 6:17 am - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
| Relic has released a DirectX 10 patch for their blockbuster hit Company of Heroes.
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