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FRAPS 3.0.1 Available

JeGX — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:38:12 +0000

Few days after the version 3.0.0, a new update of FRAPS is available. FRAPS is a Windows application that makes it possible to benchmark and screen-capture (image or video) Direct3D or OpenGL...

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[Download] The Powder Toy Physics Game

JeGX — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:11:55 +0000

In response to readers’ feedbacks about The Powder Toy, the small and fun physics game, I did a search in my old HDD and find the binaries of this game. And now you can download it here: Have...

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OpenCL and GPU Computing Latest News

JeGX — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:52:54 +0000

I received / found some interesting news about OpenCL this week. I will talk more in detail about OpenCL next week because it will be in the spotlight… 1 – OpenCL demo with 1,000,000...

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Free PhysX Game: Attack of the 50ft Robot!

JeGX — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:38:29 +0000

Attack of the 50ft Robot! is an action game set in a 1950s B-movie. Unleash your inner robot and destroy everything that stands in your way. It was developed by students at DigiPen Institute of...

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Unreal Engine 3 Free for Everyone with Unreal Development Kit!

JeGX — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:22:42 +0000

Unreal Development Kit or UDK is the free version of the Unreal Engine 3, the famous game engine used to create video games (like Unreal Tournament 3) and other 3D applications (virtual visits or...

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PhysX Visual Debugger 1.1.8 Available

JeGX — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:28:08 +0000

NVIDIA has released the new version of PhysX Visual Debugger (or PVD), the tool that allows you to visualize, debug, and interact with your PhysX based application. I just tried this new version with...

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[Tutorial] Discovering Blender Part 4: Baking

Satyr — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:28:34 +0000

This tutorial is based on Blender 2.49b. Prerequisites: Tutorial – Discovering Blender Part 1: Introduction to Blender’s Interface Tutorial – Discovering Blender Part 2: Creating your First Textured...

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SUBSTANCE: Evolutionary and Organic Art Generator

JeGX — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:05:32 +0000

SUBSTANCE, made by a french team, is an OpenGL-based application for producing photorealistic evolutionary art. SUBSTANCE uses Qt (windows management) and Cg for real time shaders. SUBSTANCE...

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Wings 3D 1.2RC1 Available

JeGX — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:40:34 +0000

(source) Wings 3D is a free subdivision modeler available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Wings 3D is based on an OpenGL renderer and can export or import common 3D formats such as 3D Studio (3DS),...

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Elsa GeForce 210 Low Profile and PCI Exp X1

JeGX — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:37:34 +0000

Elsa will propose soon an entry level graphics card, based on the GeForce 210. This card will be low profile and will use a PCi express X1 slot. The GeForce 210 is a 40nm GPU with 16 shader cores,...

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AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK 2.0 Available

JeGX — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:27:06 +0000

ADL or AMD Display Library is a C library designed to access display driver functionality for ATI Radeon and ATI FirePro graphics cards. ADL 2.0 changelog: Over ten new Displays Manager...

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NVIDIA OptiX SDK Available for Windows and Linux

JeGX — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:31:14 +0000

NVIDIA has just released the OptiX SDK. OptiX is a real time and programmable ray tracer optimized for GPUs. Three news demos (glass, Whirligig, Ambient Occlusion) are available on OptiX ray tracing...

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EVGA Dual-GPU Graphics Card for 3D Rendering and PhysX

JeGX — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:24:57 +0000

EVGA has officially released the GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX graphics solution. We quickly talked about this card in this news. This new graphics card from EVGA uses a GTX 275 3D graphics rendering and a...

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Shattered Horizon Escalation Video

JeGX — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:21:58 +0000

This new video of the upcoming Shattered Horizon game showcases Shattered Horizon’s intense zero gravity combat. Press release: Shattered Horizon: New Gameplay Trailer Showcasing Zero Gravity Combat.

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[Download] Free Photorealistic Bark Textures Pack for Real Time 3D

JeGX — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:43:10 +0000

Tree bark textures for game development, real time 3D demo, effect shaders, etc. These textures are especially made for real time 3D needs: they are power of two, seamless and displacement as well as...

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Radeon HD 5870 X2 (or HD 5970 Hemlock) Pictured and Tested

JeGX — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:07:14 +0000

The guys at alienbabeltech.com have some images and benchmarks results of the upcoming ATI’s Radeon HD 5870 X2. This graphics card with two GPUs is codenamed Hemlock (Radeon HD 5870 is...

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ForceWare 195.39: NVIDIA’s First Graphics Drivers with Public OpenCL Support

JeGX — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:41:07 +0000

This is the first set of display drivers (for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION desktop GPUs) that brings the public support of OpenCL (Open Computing Language). Currently...

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[GeeXLab] Shadow Mapping and Large Depth Map on Radeon HD 5770

JeGX — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:38:36 +0000

While updating GPU Caps Viewer (available very soon), I saw the max texture size for Radeon HD 5770 (and HD 5870 as well) is 16k or 16384×16384. I said wow! In the previous generation of Radeon...

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Demoscene: Blunderbuss Direct3D Demo With One Million Particles

JeGX — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:40:22 +0000

Blunderbuss is a prod made by the demogroup Fairlight. This is a Direct3D 9 demo focused on particles. The large number (about 1 million) particles are rendered with realism (light + shadows, fluid...

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Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X Graphics Card

JeGX — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:13:26 +0000

Few days after Sapphire’s HD 5750, the specs and pictures of the upcoming Sapphire’s HD 5870 are available HERE. This graphics card, based on AMD’s Cypress GPU, is equiped with the...

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