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ShereXP - 3D desktop replacement

Sat, 23 May 2009 12:51:53 GMT

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The SphereXP is a 3D desktop replacement for Microsoft Windows. Taking the known concept of three-dimensional desktops to its own level. It offers a new way to organize objects on the desktop such as icons and applications. It has been tried out...

ATI Catalyst 9.5 Driver: Performance Express-Test

Fri, 22 May 2009 11:51:22 GMT

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AMD graphics division continues to release new catalyst driver versions as scheduled. Just a few days ago they updated their latest driver with version 9.5 that promises certain performance changes compared with version 9.4. As usual, we decided...

ATI March of the Froblins v1.2 update

Thu, 21 May 2009 19:54:41 GMT

Froblins demo has been updated on May 13th.
No changelog available, i guess they optimised it for recent Catalyst or 4890 GPU?

OCCT Perestro�ka 3.1.0 available

Thu, 21 May 2009 17:52:08 GMT

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Changelog (Since 3.0.1) : MAIN

* OCCT is now much better at detecting the prerequisites forn the tests (GPU:3D, GPU:MEMTEST and Power Supply)
* The name of the graphic card is now detected

CPU:LINPACK

* Hyperthreading support

GPU:3D

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NeoAxis Engine 0.81 available

Wed, 20 May 2009 08:30:14 GMT

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* New 3dsMax Exporter: Mesh export, material export, texture export and converting, skeletal animation support.
* MapObjectAttachedParticle: UpdateWhenItNotInView has been property. Not visibled on screen particle system will be suspended. T...

3D-Coat V3 - Voxel Sculpting with CUDA

Tue, 19 May 2009 20:07:49 GMT

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We are glad to announce the release of 3D-Coat V3 powered by volumetric sculpting feature 1th June 2009. 3D-Coat V3 will support NVIDIA's CUDA� technology which considerably accelerates volumetric sculpting performance.

[url=http://www.3d-coat.c...

SiSoftware Sandra 2009 SP3c available

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:49:53 GMT

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SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devic...

DivX adds hardware acceleration to MKV in Windows 7

Sun, 17 May 2009 16:01:11 GMT

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DivX Labs has now announced a solution to this that not only adds support for MKV for the container in Windows 7 but also enables hardware acceleration of the media through Microsoft's own H.264 decoder.

Read full story at [url=http://ww...

Humus' thoughts on the compute shader and the future

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:48:57 GMT

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A couple of interesting things about the compute shader is that while the programming approach is radically different from traditional vertex and pixel shader programming, the underlying hardware hasn't radically changed to accomodate this chang...

Can PhysX run on OpenCL?

Sat, 16 May 2009 07:11:31 GMT

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NVIDIA: Any language out there that promotes GPU computing is something we�re excited about. Hopefully you guys saw the press release we put out that talked about us being the first to deliver an OpenCL driver for developers. It�s one of the rea...

ATI Mobility Modder 1.2 available

Fri, 15 May 2009 09:17:11 GMT

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The new FINAL version is now 1.2.0.0 and has an installer. Discussion Forum

Changes:
- Added support for Windows 7 drivers
- Fixed problem in driver modification with the 9.2 and higher drivers

So what's the deal, what exactly is Mobility Modder...

NVIDIA Releases World's First Stereoscopic Driver for Windows 7

Thu, 14 May 2009 17:39:28 GMT

NVIDIA released 3D Vision CD v1.08 driver kit, which includes the GeForce driver v185.85 and the 3D Vision driver v185.85.

Read full story at PCPER.

CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 12

Thu, 14 May 2009 17:36:13 GMT

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Prior to CUDA 2.2, CUDA kernels could not access host system memory directly. For that reason, CUDA programmers used the design pattern introduced in Part 1 and Part 2:

1. Move data to the GPU.
2. Perform calculation on GPU.
3. Move res...

Flam4CUDA v0.66 available

Wed, 13 May 2009 15:46:53 GMT

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Version 0.66 incorporates some tweaks that greatly improve multi-GPU performance, and likely single-GPU a bit as well.
IMPORTANT: *.FLAM4 DOES NOT WORK AT THIS TIME, USE *.FLAME INSTEAD. *.flam4 is the new flame format which is well underway for...

Nvidia submits its OpenCL 1.0 drivers for certification

Wed, 13 May 2009 15:08:09 GMT

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Less than a month after offering them to developers registered in the OpenCL Early Access Program, Nvidia has went on to submit its OpenCL drivers for Windows XP and Linux to the Khronos OpenCL Working Group for certification. Taking a not so su...

Epic's vice president on Unreal Engine 3

Wed, 13 May 2009 15:04:52 GMT

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Rein discusses several features, including the new global illumination solver Unreal Lightmass, and the asset management solution Unreal Content Browser, which improves the way users can view objects and packages. Other highlighted features incl...

GDC Canada: What Game Developers Should Know About Windows 7

Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:13 GMT

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Direct3D 11: Some of the new and enhanced features include multithreaded rendering and resource creation (works on all D3D 10+ hardware), a compute shader (works on nearly all D3D 10+ hardware), Shader Model 5 (some of it is emulated in older sh...

CUDA Compute 1.3 Global Atomics Profiled

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:36:37 GMT

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Got the GT275 in yesterday, was very exciting to move up to a card which has what might be 8x the ALU capacity of what I normally have at home and at work (I use a GPU with similar performance to the PS3 and 360). First test I ran was my point b...

Blender 2.49 Release Candidates 2 available

Sun, 10 May 2009 17:43:37 GMT

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2.49 RC2

We are currently testing the second Release Candidate for 2.49.
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.49RC/

Please report issues in our bug tracker

A release log of new the new features will be published here. Here's the WIP list...