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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Reviews - The New Pixel-Killer Has Been Unleashed! - 08-01-2009
BFG GeForce GTX 295 Gainward GeForce GTX 295 Today was the official launch of the new NVIDIA flagship product: the GeForce GTX 295. If you’re a bit confused with the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX, let’s do a short recap. The GeForce GTX 295 is a graphics card with the new 55nm version of the GTX200 GPU and… [...]
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NVIDIA ForceWare 181.20 WHQL - 08-01-2009
NVIDIA has just released a new set of graphics drivers for Windows XP and Vista with the WHQL stamp! This version 181.20, dated December 26, supports all GeForce 6/7/8/9/GTX200. These drivers support the brand new GeForce GTX 285 and GeForce GTX 295. Downloads: ForceWare 181.20 XP 32 ForceWare 181.20 XP 64 ForceWare 181.20 Vista 32 ForceWare 181.20 Vista 64 [via] [...]
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ATI Catalyst And Multithreading Support - 08-01-2009
According to this news, the version 9.1 (internal version: 8.561.3) of the Catalyst graphics drivers should be multithreaded or bring multithreaded support to some applications. In some Direct3D 10 games like Crysis, this will bring up to 9% (on a dual core CPU) or 22% (on a quad core CPU). Direct3D 9 and 10 are single threaded [...]
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Geeks3D Daily News Round-up (2009.01.07) - 07-01-2009
“All 3D news you missed today in a single post!” digg_url = 'http://www.geeks3d.com/?p=2981'; digg_title = 'Geeks3D Daily News Round-up (2009.01.07)'; digg_topic = 'tech_news'; digg_bodytext = 'Industry News. Today: FurMark 1.6.0, Lian Li PC-888, CES, cudaGLview, GeForce GTX 295, Catalyst 9.2, Haskell, DarkGDK.NET, 3D video gaming, PageRank'; Today: FurMark 1.6.0, Lian Li PC-888, CES, cudaGLview, GeForce GTX 295, Catalyst 9.2, Haskell, [...]
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FurMark 1.6.0 Available NOW! - 07-01-2009
digg_url = 'http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/'; It’s time for a new version of FurMark. With this very cold winter we currently have, only FurMark can bring you the heat you need! Here are the main changes of this new release: A monitoring graph for GPU temperature is now available in Stability Test mode. This graph allows you to see the [...]
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Dubai?s Burj Al Arab Hotel Inspires Lian Li?s PC Case Designers - 07-01-2009
Really nice case, isn’t it? The Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai has inpired Lian Li desingers and the result is rather pretty cool. The codename of this case is PC-888, less funny… Dubai Burj Al Arab Hotel [source]
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Geeks3D Daily News Round-up (2009.01.06) - 06-01-2009
Black Ball Optical Illusion “All 3D news you missed today in a single post!” digg_url = 'http://www.geeks3d.com/?p=2981'; digg_title = 'Geeks3D Daily News Round-up (2009.01.06)'; digg_topic = 'tech_news'; digg_bodytext = 'Industry News. Today: Shapeways, Ardor3D, Platinum Arts Sandbox, GeForce GTX 285, Galaxy GeForce GTX 260 55nm, Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic, NVIDIA GT215, Edge Detection with Direct3D 10, Shadow Mapping and [...]
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NVIDIA GPU Programming Guide Updated for GeForce 8/9 - 06-01-2009
Good news for all 3D graphics developers: NVIDIA has updated its GPU Programming Guide and this new version is focused specifically on the GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs (not GT200?? - next year…). The majority of the text is for Direct3D 10 but OpenGL is also present. This guide includes the following chapters: How to Optimize Your [...]
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Visualization Library Alpha 2: Your C++ OpenGL 3D Graphics Middleware - 06-01-2009
Fur Rendering with Geometry Shaders Visualization Library is an open source C++ middleware for 2D and 3D graphics applications based on OpenGL 2.1. This new version alpha version brings the following changes: native Win32, SDL, GLUT and Qt4 bindings improved compatibility with 3DS, OBJ, AC3D, MD2 and PLY formats support to DDS, BMP, TIF, TGA, DAT and raw formats virtual file [...]
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GPU Gems 3: Chapters 11, 12, and 13 Online - 06-01-2009
Chapters 11, 12, and 13 of GPU Gems 3 are now available for free HERE. These chapters cover the following topics: Chapter 11: Efficient and Robust Shadow Volumes Using Hierarchical Occlusion Culling and Geometry Shaders Chapter 12: High-Quality Ambient Occlusion Chapter 13: Volumetric Light Scattering as a Post-Process
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Making Of Stormbirds by realtime:uk - 06-01-2009
Stormbirds by Realtime:UK Links: www.realtimeuk.com Making Of Stormbirds (french) Making Of Stormbirds (english)
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Geeks3D Daily News Round-up (2009.01.05) - 05-01-2009
“All 3D news you missed today in a single post!” Today: NVIDIA GT212, GPU-Z 0.3.1, HIS Radeon HD 4870 IceQ4+, XFX Radeon, Firebird, mini-PC gaming, Programming, Python, DevIL, aTuner, MSI Radeon HD 4830, NVClock. Programming Tutorial: How To Load and Display an Image with DevIL and OpenGL NVIDIA GT212 GPU Specifications XFX Radeon HD 4870 and 4850 Pictured GPU-Z 0.3.1 [...]
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[Tutorial] How To Load and Display an Image with DevIL and OpenGL - 05-01-2009
DevIL song: “la la la, a cross-platform image library utilizing a simple syntax to load, save, convert, manipulate, filter and display a variety of images with ease, la la la” digg_url = 'http://www.geeks3d.com/?p=2925'; As I promised in this post here is a tutorial about DevIL. This tutorial shows one way to load an image file and use it as a [...]
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NVIDIA GT212 GPU Specifications - 05-01-2009
GT212 is the new NVIDIA’s GPU that will replace the current GT200 (the one behind GeForce GTX 260/280). Here are the first specifications available: - GPU: GT212 / 40nm / 1.8 billion transistors - Shader processors: 384 - Texture Units: 96 - Memory: 256-bit GDDR5 [via] Related links: NVIDIA GT212 - 1.8 billion transistors, 384 shaders?
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XFX Radeon HD 4870 and 4850 Pictured - 05-01-2009
Radeon HD 4870 XFX was, so far, a NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards maker. Now XFX produces also ATI Radeon based video cards and here are the first pictures of XFX’s Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon HD 4850 boards. XFX uses its own PCB (black colored) and its own GPU cooler. Wait and see what these new [...]
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GPU-Z 0.3.1 Available for Download NOW! - 05-01-2009
The first GPU-Z for 2k9 is out in version 0.3.1 for all videocards fanatics. What? You don’t know GPU-Z? C’mon! Okay I’m in a good mood today: GPU-Z is an tiny utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU. GPU-Z 0.3.1 ChangleLog: * Fixed crash on systems without NVAPI (Win 2K, old [...]
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FRAPS 2.9.8 Available - 04-01-2009
A new version of FRAPS is out. FRAPS is a Windows utility for Direct3D or OpenGL applications and is used for: - benchmarking - screen capture - realtime video capture FRAPS is widely used for graphics cards reviews and tests. Changelog: - Fixed crash on installation for some users - Fixed Fraps not working with Combat Arms - Fixed counter not switching properly [...]
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Geeks3D Affiliates News - 04-01-2009
“All 3D news you missed at Geeks3D’s Affiliates!” This week: Cooler Master, ATCS 840, Antec VERIS, Microsoft, Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 XSA-00001, ECS X58B-A, CoolIT Legit Reviews: CoolIT Systems Domino A.L.C. Water Cooler Review CoolIT Systems noticed that well built water cooler was missing from the sub $80 market and went back to a drawing board to see if [...]
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Geeks3D Daily News Round-up: All 3D News That Matter (2009.01.02) - 02-01-2009
“All 3D news you missed today in a single post!” Today: OpenCL, ForceWare 185.20, Particle System, GPU, Fahrenheit Project, iPhone, GeForce GTX 285, Construct, DevIL, Demoscene and RV770 with 900 stream processors. DevIL 1.7.5 - Image Manipulation Library Best Demoscene Products 2008 Huge NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers Comparision Database - English Version! Construct 0.93.3: Open Source DirectX GameMaker GeForce 185.20 Released [...]
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DevIL 1.7.5 - Image Manipulation Library - 02-01-2009
A new version of DevIL has been released (hey Denton if you read this post, could you please offer an rss feed, that would be great for people like me…). DevIL (Developer’s Image Library) is a library that allows to add very powerful image loading capabilities to your application. What’s new in this version 1.7.5? Some [...]