For the gamers out there....

[Marcus Telcontar]

http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2002/4520.html


HAve a read. I wont spoilt it by commenting on it except....wooooo. Imagine that as your video graphics setup

[Darth Viscera]

Until I see screenshots and/or a captured video sample, it's just a paper army.

[Lady Vader]

Awesomeness... but yeah, what Visc said.

[Khendon Sevon]

They commented on that at Sharky when they did a piece on the upcoming 9700 series.

[Marcus Telcontar]

Well, sounds like they are goign to put their mouth where their money is and do it publically. Pretty nifty if they are confident enough it will work

[Darth Viscera]

I was only able to do 4 frames/minute in my 8 second lars homestead render. It would be hard to imagine someone rendering 29.97006 or 23.976 frames/sec in 3ds max and simultaneously playing the output. Back in 2001 the framerate for the LOTR:FOTR DVD was 23.976 pre-telecine, so I assume they'll remain true to the original.

[Dark Lord Dyzm]

Not many of you are hardcore gamers are you?

I am the console game guru, or was, at my school. If you needed info, you came to me. 6 different types of magazines, web print-outs, reviews, etc.

I'm only a average PC gamer,

[Darth Pyrone]

**** David. Why don't you get your console guruing ass onto MS word and write me up something for some of them eh? But there is only some truth... you know only about the more recent consoles. I am the real guru.
Oh, and I personally don't see the usefulness in that setup... although I am not much of a pc gamer. And my regular gaming is slowly declining :( .

Admin Note ~ Please do not attempt to circumvent the swear filter.

[Darth Viscera]

no cussing! :mad

[Morgan Evanar]

Eh, this press release doesn't mean much -- I follow the graphics market as a hobby. If some of you have memories, nVidia claimed they could almost render Final Fantasy (the movie) in realtime.

This was back when a 1.4 Tbird/GeForce 3 was the absolute top end for consumer stuff. You could actually run the demo on you own home boxen around ~15fps. Very cool, but it really lacks a lot of the detail (espeically on the hair) that the original had. The rendering accuracy also comparatively sucked.

They're probably using a "Fire GL" derivative of the R300 core, which isn't a paper tiger, and is a fugging wikkid piece of hardware. Turn on Anisotropic filtering and 4x FSAA @ 1600x1200 and your GF4 TI4600 will cry for mommy. R300 won't, the thing is just such a beast.

Anyway, artists like this a lot because they get a very, very decent realtime preview of everything before spitting it at the renderfarm.