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AMD working with a major developer to create a never-before-seen DirectX® 11 technology.
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To be fair, raytracing hasn't been used officially in a game by the developers, so it *could* be, but I'd imagine it's probably not.
It depends on how you read and interpret the sentence.
It could mean a never before seen DX11 technology, so something done in DX11 that's yet to be done in DX11.
Or it could be read as them doing something that hasn't been done before, with DX11 making it possible.
It depends on how you read and interpret the sentence.
It could mean a never before seen DX11 technology, so something done in DX11 that's yet to be done in DX11.
Or it could be read as them doing something that hasn't been done before, with DX11 making it possible.
Ah... yes, ray tracing... i knew what it was, i did not Google it, no that is not Wikipedia on that other tab......
It actually looks a bit like the OpenCL Global Illumination that's in Dirt Showdown and Nexius, makes everything more glossy and reflective, dynamically it moves with the image.
It actually looks a bit like the OpenCL Global Illumination that's in Dirt Showdown and Nexius, makes everything more glossy and reflective, dynamically it moves with the image.
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Depends how you look at it. Entertain this idea....
If it was something along the lines of their own physx system, AMD have next gen consoles locked out with their hardware. If the technology was being used in the consoles it would make it into every pc version too and would be much more widely used than what Physx is.
Of course it will probably be something anticlimactic but if I was in charge at AMD I would be trying to use the lockout on console hardware to really screw Nvidia over in the pc gpu department.
Depends how you look at it. Entertain this idea....
If it was something along the lines of their own physx system, AMD have next gen consoles locked out with their hardware. If the technology was being used in the consoles it would make it into every pc version too and would be much more widely used than what Physx is.
Of course it will probably be something anticlimactic but if I was in charge at AMD I would be trying to use the lockout on console hardware to really screw Nvidia over in the pc gpu department.
I was talking about "PhysX" rather than hardware physics in general.
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Yea, I'm just saying it may not be as niche as physx in the sense that it may be a commonly used feature in next gen consoles and their desktop gpu's.
I'm just speculating for fun, but it would make a lot of sense to patent something and lock nvidia out of it for all of next generation. The "developer" could be microsoft if its a dx11 feature and they're working with them on the next xbox.
In reality it'll turn out to be some sort of god awful new blur effect or something!
Snip*. The "developer" could be microsoft if its a dx11 feature and they're working with them on the next xbox.
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Interesting observation.
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Sorry Mr Spoffle, but this drum nedsto stop being banged.
There are many games that have come out in the last 6 months, that use Physx to great effect.
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From memory I think there's been 2? Borderlands 2 and I forget the other.
Hardware accelerated that is.
Define "many" because you're either using it incorrectly on purpose, or don't know what it means.
Yeah, it seems most advocates of GPU PhysX don't actually know that the vast majority of games don't run it on the GPU.
Which in itself is a bit embarrassing really.
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From what I can make out its something along the lines of implementing a feature using DX11 functionality rather than an addition to the core API. So probably something they are working with along with capcom or crytek.
And that the super special "physics" of floaty newspapers and other rubbish wafting unrealistically about could be done without PhysX
Don't talk crazy! You really do need a GPU to process all those incredibly not real papers floating about.
The only thing that has not been properly done is atom modeling or whatever it's called, can't remember the full name but rather than having faces/vertices etc etc, the object is not hollow, if you get me.
This would require some stupid amount of power unless the tech they are talking about is a way to render it without cripplin' the system lol.
This would require some stupid amount of power unless the tech they are talking about is a way to render it without cripplin' the system lol.
Arkham City would be another one.
This is making me think about repalcing my GTX660 for a 7950!!
Let me go find my handbag and I will join in
I get about 40fps with extreme amounts of stuttering in Dead Rising 2 on my 7950, Nvidia are scum mate.
