Crysis -Do We Need Full Detail?
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News, Graphics, Microprocessors, Motherboards on 18. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
As we all know Crysis is the second version of the Crytek engine. The game was originally called Far Cry if I remember correctly which was back then a brilliant graphics engine for out door environments. I know Crysis (Crytek Engine 2) has been out a couple of months now but I think this game [...]
Intel Pentium the return!
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics, Microprocessors on 09. Jul, 2008 | No Comments
Intel is already heavily pitching its Larrabee technology to its business partners. Even though the technology behind the cGPU still remains a mystery, somehow business men alike are drawn to the new product, who wouldn’t! A German publication has provided more clues based on Larrabee and how its built on two decade old P5 architecture!
This [...]
PhysX driver for ATI Graphics
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 30. Jun, 2008 | No Comments
A driver hacker had recently achieved something I would consider quite difficult in the driver world. ‘the guy’ claims to have hacked Nvidia Physx driver to run on ATI based hardware.
Screen shots of CPU-Z showing the Ageia driver settings and £d Mark Vantage with a score of 22606 CPU Points. The CPU score is only [...]
Nvidia Geforce 177.39 beta drivers PhysX enabled
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 26. Jun, 2008 | 1 Comment
Nvidia has launched a beta version of the 177.39 drivers have introduced the PhysX support to a number of Nvidia graphics cards. I assume the support will be for the 9800 series and 200 series cards. At present the driver is only supported for the GTX, GTX 280 and GTX 260 graphics cards. The beta [...]
HD4870 x2 coming soon!
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 25. Jun, 2008 | No Comments
AMD will be launching the HD4870 x2 will be released sooner rather than later. Funnily enough the card will be the same colour as the Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+ which is black. I cant see ATI adopting a green colored card that’s for sure.
The sales for ATI 4800 series cards are apparently hitting new heights, [...]
Nvidia 9800 GTX+
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 24. Jun, 2008 | 1 Comment
Now that Nvidia and ATi have released their latest graphics cards Nvidia needed to re think their strategy to counter act the competitive sales from ATI. ATI released their Radeon HD 4850 last week with their forthcoming HD4870 which is yet to be released.
Nvidia Decided to create the 9800 GTX+ which uses a 55nm process. [...]
