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So. You want something to beautifully demonstrate your graphic card

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So. You want something to beautifully demonstrate your graphic card. You're sick of slide-show 3DMark?

Try Final Audition.

I found it beautiful to watch, and liquid smooth. :cool:
 
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Good to see the demo scene alive and well. I used to be into these on the Amiga with all its custom gfx chips
 
lol, someone posted this link ages ago.. infact.. i somehow had this demo before i was on the forums, and ran it on my old 9800pro :p
 
Just ran it then on my pro and it does push the limits running it at 1100x800 but looks amazing, too dam short ? Only was a few minutes

I liked the bit with black smoke, or was it cells growing, best.


Owch I just tried again after ramping the clocks upto XT and now it shows the framerate lol, down to 8 in the beginning 'dna' sequence and the demo uses not a shred of video memory :confused:
 
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My God!

I simply cannot believe my X1900XT can render that as smoothly as it just did.

I was running 1280x1024 at 16AF and 6AA. Speechless :D
 
The other one (the one below) is cool too. Haven't seen the others though.

For some reason my X1900XT isn't at full capacity in these. It's running about 20 degrees cooler than it does during the ATI Toy Shop demo. The air coming out the back is quite cool too. Strange heh :D
 
Tommy B said:
The other one (the one below) is cool too. Haven't seen the others though.

For some reason my X1900XT isn't at full capacity in these. It's running about 20 degrees cooler than it does during the ATI Toy Shop demo. The air coming out the back is quite cool too. Strange heh :D
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Yeh i just tried the other one aswell, not as good as the first though ;)

I know what you mean about the cards not maxing out.. i was looking at the temps during this, and the card only rose a few degrees above idle.. Maybe its more cpu ?
 
Iam pretty sure its using the CPU a lot more then any game normally does, typical of clever demo coders and this demo works on anything down to a nvidia 9500. The resolution does not alter the frame rate much for me which points to a cpu limitation I think.

My rig is all changing soon so I'll give a test then too
 
Fulcrum said:
Iam pretty sure its using the CPU a lot more then any game normally does, typical of clever demo coders and this demo works on anything down to a ATI Radeon 9500. The resolution does not alter the frame rate much for me which points to a cpu limitation I think.

My rig is all changing soon so I'll give a test then too
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corrected for you :p
 
Tommy B said:
My God!

I simply cannot believe my X1900XT can render that as smoothly as it just did.

I was running 1280x1024 at 16AF and 6AA. Speechless :D
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try running fraps along side it at a res of 1680x1050 16xghq af 6x fsaa with shadow map size to 1280x1024, im getting 12fps in a lot of it with a 2.7ghz opteron and x1900xtx. :eek:

Edit, mainly a low framerate at the start when all the cells sort alook like a web, gets better after that.
 
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If graphics like these can be produced on current hardware, why dont current games look this good?
 
Because its not a game just a scripted display, maybe in 5 years when everyone has the power to display this at 25fps and have enough left to handle everything else a game requires on top
 
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Because its not a game just a scripted display, maybe in 5 years when everyone has the power to display this at 25fps and have enough left to handle everything else a game requires on top
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I dont believe so, games are too realistic these days and developers get bogged down with accurate textures and lighting, games should be more creative with their graphics.
 
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