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Ticker Tape: Multi-Core 3D Particle System Demo

JeGX — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:29:58 +0000

Particle systems are very easy to parallelize because they have many independent objects that can be grouped together in any way and processed in any order. In this demo, Mike Yi and Quentin Froemke,...

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OpenGL 3.3 and 4.0 Specifications Released

JeGX — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:44:17 +0000

GL_ARB_tessellation_shader, GL_ARB_gpu_shader5, GL_ARB_draw_indirect, GL_ARB_shader_subroutine or GL_ARB_texture_gather, here are some of the new features that OpenGL 4.0 will bring. And from the...

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[TIPS] Mipmap Levels Debugging with a DDS Debug Texture

JeGX — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:03:16 +0000

DDS debug texture (available in the GeeXLab demo) Mipmapping debugging in GeeXLab A mipmap is a collection of images with different resolutions. A mipmap is arranged in a chain where each image is...

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Swiss Game Show 2010

JeGX — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:24:58 +0000

The Swiss Game Show 2010 is the first Switzerland-based show dedicated to video games and multimedia industry. The show will take place over 3 days from Friday 12th to Sunday 14th November 2010 at...

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[TEST] MSI R5770 Hawk Overclocking and GPU V-Check Point Test

JeGX — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:40:52 +0000

Test summary: 1 – R5770 Hawk Overview 2 – R5770 Hawk V-Check Points 3 – R5770 Hawk Overclocking 1 – R5770 Hawk Overview MSI’s R5770 Hawk is a factory overclocked...

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[Case] Bench Table Round-up

JeGX — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:28:25 +0000

Dimastech bench table v2.5 A bench table, or test bench, is the ideal solution for anyone that needs frequent and fast access to internal PC components: overclockers, hardware review websites, IT...

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Free PC Version of the DMM Engine Available Shortly

JeGX — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:22:05 +0000

AMD has announced its sponsorship of the DMM 2 engine for the PC platform. This is a nice news for game development community. DMM or Digital Molecular Matter is a physics engine that takes into...

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ZGameEditor: Create 64KB OpenGL Demos

JeGX — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:06:29 +0000

ZGameEditor is a tool for creating 64kb games, demos and screensavers. ZGameEditor is a game development system consisting of two main components: a Windows based integrated developer environment...

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[TEST] VirtualBox 3.1.4 OpenGL Quick Test

JeGX — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:21:28 +0000

VirtualBox 3.1.4 – GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.4 test VirtualBox 3.1.4 – FurMark 1.8.0 test I quickly tested the latest release of VirtualBox (the version 3.1.4) to see how this virtual machine...

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GLGE: WebGL for the Lazy

JeGX — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:46:27 +0000

The new version (0.2) of GLGE is available. GLGE is a javascript library to make the life of the WebGL coder easier. WebGL is a low level javascript API based on OpenGL ES and like OpenGL, WebGL does...

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FRAPS 3.1.2 Available

JeGX — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:53:05 +0000

The new version of FRAPS is out. FRAPS is a very popular tool used for screenshot, video and FPS capture for OpenGL and Direct3D applications. This new version is essentially a bugfix release: -...

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[BUG] Artifacts Caused by PhysX? Nope, They are Caused by R196.75 (Update)

JeGX — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:51:46 +0000

Update Since I switched back to R196.34, the artifacts have disappeared, even under hefty load… Conclusion: R196.75 are really crappy and dangerous. Now the question: how can we trust the WHQL...

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ForceWare 196.75 Can Kill Your GeForce Card!!!

JeGX — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:58:14 +0000

NVIDIA has removed the latest ForceWare 196.75 from their servers because this driver has an important bug: it prevents the fan from spinning and caused a death of multiple graphics cards around the...

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GeForce GTX 480 and Tessellation in Unigine Heaven

JeGX — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:43:24 +0000

Tom Petersen, Director of Technical Marketing at NVIDIA, shows the performance of GeForce GTX 480 compared to the Radeon HD 5870. According to Tom, the new GeForce excels in tessellation… I...

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TDP: 300W for the GeForce GTX 480 and 376W for the Radeon HD 5990

JeGX — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:39:05 +0000

According to FudZilla, the GeForce GTX 480 would have a TDP of around of 300W. From the TDP database, that means the GTX 480 has a TDP greater than the GTX 295 (289W) and the HD 5970 (294W). And the...

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[Tool] GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.4 Available

JeGX — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:19:35 +0000

A new update of GPU Caps Viewer is out. This new version adds the support of latest video cards such as Radeon HD 5450, HD 5830, HD 4290 and GeForce GT 3xx. the GPU temperature reading has been...

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[PREVIEW] PhysX Simulation on a 16-Core CPU

JeGX — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:28:52 +0000

Click to enlarge I’m still coding the new FluidMark with multi-core CPU support and in order to test with more than 4 cores (my dev station really sucks with its 2 CPU cores and my test bench...

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Radeon HD 4290 (AMD 890GX)

JeGX — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:17:30 +0000

AMD’s new chipset, the 890GX, includes two chips: the 890GX and the SB850. The SB850 is the southbridge (I/O management) and the 890GX is the northbridge. The 890GX includes the graphics part...

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OGRE 1.7.0 3D Engine Available

JeGX — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:10:28 +0000

The final version of OGRE 1.7.0 is out. OGRE is one of the most popular 3D rendering engine and is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. OGRE supports all modern rendering paths: OpenGL,...

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Graphics Cards Thermal Design Power (TDP) Database Update

JeGX — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:21:30 +0000

The Thermal Design Power (or TDP) database has been updated with the following entries: - GeForce GT 340: 69W - GeForce GT 330: 75W - GeForce GT 320: 43W - GeForce 315: 33W - Radeon HD 5830: 175W -...

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