There is a new SpeedTree demo available called "The Valley" demonstrating how environments can look like once you fill them with a lot of grass, flowers and nice trees. Here's more.
Prohardver.hu have held an interview with XGI's Andy Chang.
"PH!: would you please explain your multi-chip technology called BitFluent? It seems there should be some sort of order between GPUs, at least at display data path. What about at rendering level, how do you allocate rendering jobs between GPUs?
XGI: For a more in-depth information, you check check on XGITech.com under the product section, there shall be a white paper explaining clearly how it works. Simply put, the two GPU works as follows: The master GPU is connected to the AGP interface and the Slave GPU is connected to the master GPU. Each of the two GPUs has its own local frame buffer, which is what we called DRAM. Basically, the master GPU will process frame 1, 3, 5, ... and slave GPU will process frame 2, 4, 6, ... and so on.
From our studies, this is the most efficient way of putting two GPUs together. The overall efficiency is about 1.7* the performance of one GPU."
More (+ pictures) is available here's the link.
They're not final yet but might fix some problems you're having with older drivers like i did. :) They offer some performance improvement and some neat new features. Get your 52.13 drivers here.
... Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX IP has been realized in silicon, enabling developers to prototype applications that will port easily to future consumer devices."
There is more, right here in ARM's latest press release.
Another nice snippet:
"The first board in the Versatile family is the RealView Versatile Platform Baseboard. Based on an integrated development chip, this board has been designed specifically for ASIC emulation and prototyping, and supports advanced 3D graphics application development around ARM and PowerVR MBX cores."
deferred Power and PVRGenerations have an interview up theydid together with PowerVR's John Metcalfe und David Harold. Here's deferred Power's link and here's the one leading to PVRGenerations. Enjoy!
Kudos to Michael from RealStorm for letting me know the following:
"we would like to inform you that our new Realtime Raytracing Benchmark
- RealStorm Bench2004
is finally released."
Here's it, happy benchmarking!
Found the following info on PVR-World.de.
Seems like some guys wanted to know what the 3D accelerators of ancient times are still capable of and put together an article including the 3Dfx Voodoo 5 5500 and a Kyro 2. The whole article is in german language but numbers and screenshots don't need translation. Here's the link.
Jasconius has updated his site and is back with a nw domain as well. Newly added: Rumic Theatre - Mermaid's Forest, Rockman.EXE Axess and Gungrave reviews. Here's the link.
Hayama, Zepy and Momotato have also updated their sites.
VR-Zone report a new overclocking success:
"Our friend Katsumi from Japan has once again overclocked his Athlon FX-51 to reach a staggering 3.3Ghz using LN2 cooling and managed to set a SuperPI record of 27s!"
Read the whole report here.
This might be interesting news for some of our visitors living in germany or at least near an OBI store. OBI will be selling a nice notebook for a short time with a 16:10 15,4" screen, AMD 2500+ CPU, 512MB RAM, DVD-burn capabilities, ...
Here's more information.
The official Stalker Lost Oblivion homepage was updated with 4 new ingame screenshots. You can find them here.
Opera 7.21 is available now. Get your Win copy here (with Java) here (w/o Java).
For more information head over to Opera.com.